I didn’t go there, but there’s a coffee shop about 2 miles from the monument called Grover’s Mill Coffee House that boasts a large collection of war of the worlds memorabilia. Location: 335 Princeton Highstown Rd, West Windsor, NJ It’s pretty impressive in the daylight and even creepier when backlit at night by the streetlight. Installed in 2018, the scout ship is a 12-foot tall artistic interpretation of a Martian Tripod made from entirely recycled materials. Location: 952 Alexander Rd, West Windsor, NJĪ little less than a mile from the water tower and we’re at the West Windsor Arts Council building, the site of the Martian Tripod Sculpture by Eric Schultz. Peek over the fence or time your visit when the trees are budding in spring or bare in the fall for the best view. It’s well over 80 years old and definitely not the kind of water tower Joe Diffie was singing about. Weirdly triangular in shape, high up on stilted legs… it definitely looks alien. Less than a mile up the road there’s an old water tower that was reportedly confused for a Martian invader. Location: 175 Cranbury Rd, Grovers Mill, NJ
The monument isn’t the only thing to check out if you’ve in the area. Keep following the path and it leads you to the monument.
The parking area was clean, well-kept public restrooms, a pavilion area, a play structure for kids, and wide-open field for other activities.įollowing the path to the right, just beyond the parking area, through a small grove of trees, will lead you along Interpretive signs telling the story of the broadcast. The monument is located in Vans Nest Park. Set to be unearthed and opened on the 100 year anniversary in 2038. A time capsule was also buried alongside the monument. In 1988, an 8-foot-high bronze monument was erected and inscribed with a description of the evening and a rendering of the alien craft from the story. Location: 218 Cranbury Rd, Grovers Mill, NJ Don’t worry, it isn’t required to listen before reading. This post contains the pictures I took during my trip and the ones I referenced on episode 3 of the podcast. So, for a day trip, I drove down to the very Grover’s Mill of New Jersey, the first town ravished by the Martian invasion, to find the landmarks celebrating the broadcast. Initially, the fame or infamy – as some felt – was unwelcome but the town eventually embraced its place in pop culture history. It landed on the very real Grover’s Mill.
By happenstance, scriptwriter Howard Koch closed his eyes and dropped the tip of his pencil randomly on a map of New Jersey. Wells’ novel, of the same name, was adapted and modernized into a series of frantic radio bulletins. Did you know that town where the Martians landed in Orson Welles’ 1938 broadcast War of the Worlds was an actual place? The 1890’s H.G.
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