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GHOSTS OF CENTRAL JERSEY
Author and singer/songwriter Gordon Thomas Ward will relate tales about Ghosts of Central Jersey on Thursday, May 2 at Rutgers’ Snyder Research Farm, 140 Locust Grove Road, Pittstown, NJ. The hour-long program sponsored by Rural Awareness, Inc. is free and starts at 7:30 pm. No reservations are required.
Attendees should note this different location from Rural Awareness talks last year.
Ward has 40+ years of experience in the field of paranormal investigation and meanders between the worlds of ghosts, God, history, art, and adventure in a talk layered with a richness of factual history and sound investigation of ghostly phenomena. Ward’s open-minded enthusiasm and level-headed approach to the subject informs, entertains, and leads the audience to places where the past is considered to be very much alive and entwined with the present.
Ward is known as New Jersey’s Troubadour and has been described as “a musical storybook”. A songwriter since the age of fourteen, he has become a popular performer by painting musical portraits with guitar, dulcimer, and multiple other instruments. Inspirations for his songs come from his varied experience as a teacher, writer, storyteller, group facilitator, and radio host. He also is the author of five published books.
Rural Awareness is a non-profit corporation dedicated to preserving the rich history and rural character of Franklin Township in Hunterdon County. Call 908.735.4271 with questions |
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WALKING TOUR OF RINGOES
Take a walking tour of downtown Ringoes and discover its rich history. Our tour guide is Dave Harding, former Hunterdon County Historical Society trustee, founding member of the East Amwell Historical Society, and author of a self-guided walking tour of Ringoes. Dave will tell us about John Ringo’s arrival in the early 1700s where he became a reluctant tavern owner, and discuss the legend of his buried treasure. We'll learn about the Sons of Liberty meeting at the tavern of “the second” John Ringo, an ardent patriot who hung a portrait of George Washington outside his establishment (unless the British were passing through!). We’ll swing past the Henry Landis House where the Marquis de LaFayette’s convalesced after falling ill, and we’ll talk about the local doctor who rushed to his aid. Speaking of doctors, we’ll also tell you all about Dr. Mary Tidd Bennett, the town’s rare 1800s female physician, and we’ll stand beside the home and publishing house of Dr. Cornelius Larison, and discuss this physician, teacher, publisher, author, interviewer of ex-slave Sylvia DuBois and advocate of phonetic spelling. We’ll also learn about the impact of the railroad on the community and what the village looked like a century ago. Join us to learn about the fascinating, historic
Two identical 90 minute tours are available: 10 am and 2 pm.
Free but reservations are required. Rain date is Sunday, May 5th.
Each walk limited to 20 people.
If you are closed out of this event and wish to be on our Waiting List, please email us or call (908) 788-2030 and leave a message.
THE 10AM MORNING SESSION IS SOLD OUT.
RESERVE YOUR TICKETS NOW FOR THE 2PM WALKING TOUR!!
FLORENCE MOONAN EXHIBIT
at the East Amwell Historical Society Museum
Saturdays and Sundays through May 12th
For more information visit the East Amwell Township Historical Society's website
or
DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
RINGOES TAVERN, HUNTERDON COUNTY'S CRADLE OF INDEPENDENCE DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The exhibit, on display May 1st through July 7th, includes a rarely seen document with the autograph of a local Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Also, find out how a religious movement called the “Great Awakening” influenced colonial society prior to the Revolution. The East Amwell Museum is open on weekends from 1- 4 pm
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READINGTON MUSEUMS PRESENTS: 18TH CENTURY SHOE MAKING
Come visit the Eversole-Hall House and watch Shaun Pekar, professional cordwainer and accoutrement maker, as he demonstrates the trade and skills of Historic Shoemaking. Pekar is known for his detail oriented, top quality reproductions of 18th-Century shoes and military accoutrements for living historians and museums. His work can be seen at multiple National Park Service sites, Michilimackinac State Historic Site, Fort Ticonderoga, The Old Barracks Museum, and The Museum of the American Revolution. He is currently the proprietor of “S. Pekar, Shoe and Accoutrement Maker”.
The Eversole-Hall House was originally built by Charles Eversole, a German immigrant and weaver by trade, in the mid 18th century. After Mr. Eversole's death, his grandson eventually sold the house and a portion of the surrounding land to Abraham Hall, a farmer and shoemaker, who enlarged the house and added the second story. The house remained occupied, without indoor plumbing until 1988, when the township purchased it. After renovation by community volunteers, it opened as a museum in 1991.
1pm-4pm
Location: Eversole-Hall House
Registration Recommended
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
FLORENCE MOONAN EXHIBIT
at the East Amwell Historical Society Museum
Saturdays and Sundays through May 12th
For more information visit the East Amwell Township Historical Society's website
or
DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
RINGOES TAVERN, HUNTERDON COUNTY'S CRADLE OF INDEPENDENCE DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The exhibit, on display May 1st through July 7th, includes a rarely seen document with the autograph of a local Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Also, find out how a religious movement called the “Great Awakening” influenced colonial society prior to the Revolution. The East Amwell Museum is open on weekends from 1- 4 pm
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THE HISTORY OF QUAKERTOWN
Quakertown, New Jersey was named for the members of the Religious Society of Friends who settled here in the early 1700s. This Powerpoint presentation, given by author and historian Marty Campanelli, will give an overview of the village's early days; a history of the Friends Meeting; Quakertown's role (or non-role) during the Revolutionary War; the influx of persons of other faiths; the trades, education and social life of its citizens; and fascinating details about noteworthy residents.
7 pm
Main Branch of the County Library
314 Route 12, Flemington
Free. Refreshments follow.
Reservations recommended.
RESERVE YOUR TICKETS NOW!!
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EARLY DELAWARE RIVER SETTLEMENT AND COMMERCE
On Thursday, May 9, 2019, at 7:00 PM the Delaware River Greenway Partnership (DRGP) will sponsor an illustrated lecture by historic preservation consultant Dennis Bertland on Delaware River Settlement and Commerce during the Pre-Canal Era, at the ACME Screening Room of the Pittore Justice Center in Lambertville, NJ.
By 1750, a half century after European settlers began to occupy the middle reaches of the valley, a trade network had developed along the Delaware River. For almost a hundred years thereafter, the river served as the region’s major commercial artery. Dennis Bertland will point out the boat landings, mill hamlets and market towns with their riverside storehouses, stores, and taverns that served as collection points for the shipment of marketable products shipped downriver to Philadelphia and overseas, as well as goods brought upriver for local consumers. He will also discuss the products transported which included corn, flour, hemp, linseed, logs, and, later, pig iron, castings, preserved pork and beef, distilled liquor, roofing slate and coal for fuel.
Dennis Bertland is the principal of Dennis Bertland Associates, a historic preservation consulting firm based in Stockton, NJ. He has an extensive background in historical research related to the early settlement patterns and architecture of the Delaware Valley. This program on early river trade and settlement along the Delaware River is based on research he conducted for the Knowlton Township Historic Commission, stewards of the Ramsaysburg Homestead, an 18th century property along the river in Warren County, New Jersey.
The Pittore Justice Center is located at 25 South Union Street, Lambertville, NJ. Metered parking is available in the adjacent lot and on nearby streets.
This talk is one in a series sponsored by DRGP on different aspects of the cultural and natural heritage of the Delaware River and is open to the public, free of charge. For additional information, please visit their website |
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READINGTON MUSEUMS PRESENTS BARN DANCE
Put on your dancing shoes for a night of family fun as the Readington Museums hosts its bi-annual Barn Dance. The dance will be held inside the 18th-century Wade-Wyckoff Barn on the Bouman-Stickney Farmstead property. This family friendly event is a wonderful way to have fun with the entire family as no experience is necessary. Caller Betsy Gotta will give easy to follow instructions before each dance so even a beginner will be able to dance the night away. There is a suggested donation of $5.00 per adult and $2.00 per child.
Location: Bouman-Stickney Farmstead
7PM TO 9:30 PM
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
FLORENCE MOONAN EXHIBIT
at the East Amwell Historical Society Museum
Saturdays and Sundays through May 12th
For more information visit the East Amwell Township Historical Society's website
or
DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
LEBANON TOWNSHIP MUSEUMS PRESENTS: 'BEE' NICE TO MOM CELEBRATION
1-3pm
Participants are invited to make Mother Earth-friendly gifts for any special Mothers in their lives, including a bee hotel made from recycled and natural materials as well as a personalized potted pollinator-attracting plant. For more information click here... or call Phone: (908) 537-6464.
Lebanon Township Museum is located at: 57 Musconetcong River Road
RINGOES TAVERN, HUNTERDON COUNTY'S CRADLE OF INDEPENDENCE DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The exhibit, on display May 1st through July 7th, includes a rarely seen document with the autograph of a local Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Also, find out how a religious movement called the “Great Awakening” influenced colonial society prior to the Revolution. The East Amwell Museum is open on weekends from 1- 4 pm
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FLORENCE MOONAN EXHIBIT
at the East Amwell Historical Society Museum
Saturdays and Sundays through May 12th
For more information visit the East Amwell Township Historical Society's website
or
DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
RINGOES TAVERN, HUNTERDON COUNTY'S CRADLE OF INDEPENDENCE DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The exhibit, on display May 1st through July 7th, includes a rarely seen document with the autograph of a local Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Also, find out how a religious movement called the “Great Awakening” influenced colonial society prior to the Revolution. The East Amwell Museum is open on weekends from 1- 4 pm
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HUNTERDON HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO UNVEIL
NEWLY RESTORED NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
An 1835 sampler stitched by Hannah Gray (1822-1918) will be unveiled at 1:30 pm, Tuesday, May 14 at the Hunterdon County Historical Society’s Hiram Deats Memorial Library, 114 Main Street, Flemington, NJ prior to the Society’s monthly board meeting at 2:00 pm. Needlework historian Marty Campanelli will briefly discuss the sampler, the instructress, and the motifs important to this work’s stylistic group of embroideries.
Refreshments will be served. The public is invited.
The sampler was donated to the Society by a Gray family descendant in 1971. Rediscovered in the archives in 2015, it has been restored and framed through a generous donation from Daniel C. Scheid of Princeton, NJ in memory of artist and needlework historian Dan Campanelli (1949-2017). Mr. Scheid was a co-curator, along with Dan and Marty Campanelli, of the landmark needlework exhibition, Hail Specimen of Female Art! at Morven Museum and Gardens in Princeton, New Jersey in 2014-15.
Documentation by the Campanellis show the needlework to be part of an important Hunterdon County, New Jersey group the couple named Hunterdon House & Heart Samplers in their seminal book, A Sampling of Hunterdon County Needlework: the motifs, the makers & their stories, created for the Society as a fundraiser in 2013. In their book, the Campanellis researched the makers and their instructresses, Amy S. and Elizabeth W. Lundy, whose names sometimes appear stitched on the linen.
An article about the sampler’s rediscovery appeared in the Society’s fall, 2015 newsletter which can be viewed at on the Historical Society's website.
The sampler, which features alphabets, decorative bands, houses, paired birds, angled hearts, the teacher’s name and a floral vine border has been conserved by Ruth Van Tassel of Chester County, Pennsylvania and framed by Picture Perfect in Flemington, NJ.
The sampler is one of five needlework embroideries in the Society’s collections.
DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
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WALKING TOUR OF THREE BRIDGES
Join County Historian and Three Bridges native John Kuhl for a walking tour of historic Three Bridges. John knows every nook and cranny of this special hamlet. Wear comfortable shoes!
Walk limited to 40 people.
The walk is free but reservations are required.
Walk begins at 10 am; meeting location will be disclosed to people with reservations only.
Rain date is Sunday, May 19th at 10 am.
If you are closed out of this event and wish to be on our Waiting List, please email us or call (908) 788-2030 and leave a message.
RESERVE YOUR TICKETS NOW!!
HUNTERDON HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESENTS:
“How to Begin your Family Genealogy”
Held at the HCHS Deats Library, 114 Main Street, Flemington, participants will learn how to begin their family genealogy, including where to find collections and how to organize and improve the search of your family history. Taught by Betty DeSapio, PLCGS of DeSapio Research Services.
10am
Registration required by phone (908-782-1091) or by emailing the Historical Society
$10, free for members
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RINGOES TAVERN, HUNTERDON COUNTY'S CRADLE OF INDEPENDENCE DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The exhibit, on display May 1st through July 7th, includes a rarely seen document with the autograph of a local Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Also, find out how a religious movement called the “Great Awakening” influenced colonial society prior to the Revolution. The East Amwell Museum is open on weekends from 1- 4 pm
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THE PALATINES SETTLEMENT PATTERNS IN HUNTERDON COUNTY
Our second lecture in our Migration Series: Join County Historian Stephanie Stevens as she details the German Migration into Hunterdon County. The "Poor Palatines" were some 13,000 Germans who came to England between May and November 1709. The English transported nearly 3,000 in ten ships to New York in the early 18th Century. How did they ever find Hunterdon County?!? Where was New Germantown? and what happened to it?
The Migration Series explores various immigrant groups that settled and influenced early Hunterdon County.
2
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Main Branch of the County Library
314 Route 12, Flemington
Free. Refreshments follow.
Reservations recommended.
RESERVE YOUR TICKETS NOW!!
RINGOES TAVERN, HUNTERDON COUNTY'S CRADLE OF INDEPENDENCE DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The exhibit, on display May 1st through July 7th, includes a rarely seen document with the autograph of a local Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Also, find out how a religious movement called the “Great Awakening” influenced colonial society prior to the Revolution. The East Amwell Museum is open on weekends from 1- 4 pm
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PRALLSVILLE MILLS SPEAKERS SERIES: DELAWARE AND RARITAN CANAL
Did you know that for more than 170 years,
the Delaware and Raritan Canal has
meandered across the narrow waist of New
Jersey? Did you know that the D&R was one
of our nation’s most successful towpath
canals, carrying more tonnage in 1866 than
the more famous Erie Canal? Did you know that Johnson & Johnson, Roebling, and
Fleischmann’s Distillery all had their start along the D&R? And did you know that the canal
provides the people of central New Jersey with both a water supply and a premier recreational
facility?
Canal author and historian Linda J. Barth will introduce you to the people, the bridges, the locks,
and the aqueducts that made the canal work. This waterway, now the centerpiece of a popular
state park, transported men and supplies between New York and Philadelphia during three wars.
Inventor John Holland used the canal to deliver his Holland VI submarine to Washington for its
Navy trials, and luxury yachts, like J .P. Morgan’s Tarantula, cruised the waterway. Come learn
more about this gem of central New Jersey.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION...
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THE HISTORY OF BETHLEHEM TOWNSHIP'S HAMLETS
West Portal/West End is probably one of the western most hamlets in Hunterdon County. Today it is a sleepy little village. However, it has quite a history as a railroad center and mining center. It also contained one of the first swim clubs in the County.
Another small hamlet in Bethlehem Township was also home to one of the leading radical protesters of the Vietnam era. Can you name the hamlet and the person?
Join local historian and author Charles "Chip" Riddle as he leads us on a fascinating exploration of the hamlets of Bethlehem Township.
7 pm
North Branch of the County Library
65 Halstead Street, Clinton
Free. Refreshments follow
Reservations recommended
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