Open House – Saturday, October 12, 1:00-4:00 pm Self-guided tour Locations: 1752 Dirk Gulick House (506 County Road 601) Farm Museum (124 Montgomery Rd) Parking available at the 124 Club at the 1860 House 1853 Bedensville Schoolhouse (Burnt Hill Rd, Skillman) … Continue reading
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October 10, Thursday, at 7 pm at Montgomery Volunteer Fire Building Two devastating fires in quick succession back in 1939 energized the determination of a handful who had stood helpless in the face of calamity and out of the ashes … Continue reading
September 28 at 1pm Frog War! The Mercer & Somerset Railroad Story October 26 at 1 pm Then & Now: Montgomery & Rocky Hill November 30 at 1 pm The Delaware and Raritan Canal December 28 at 1 pm We Remember Montgomery … Continue reading
September 26, Thursday, at 7 pm at Mary Jacobs Library The New Jersey State Legislature incorporated the Mercer and Somerset Railway Company in 1870 and granted them a charter to build a railroad between Trenton and Millstone. In 1873, the … Continue reading
Join us for Montgomery Trail Day on the trails at Stonebridge! The event is scheduled for Saturday June 1st from noon to 3PM. The VHHS Farm Museum will be open at the Voorhees-Opie Barn (red barn behind 124 Club) … Continue reading
Our 40th May in Montgomery has been a huge success. This year’s event focused on our areas rich history of farming and the current farm to table movement. Attendees were blessed with beautiful weather,historical tidbits, tasty food and good … Continue reading
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 7:00-8:30 – Montgomery Township Municipal Building Courtroom. VHHS will be co-hosting with One Montgomery and Montgomery Mosaic a book talk by the Authors of “If these Stones Could Talk” Van Harlingen Historical Society, co-sponsoring with One Montgomery and … Continue reading
“Montgomery: The Way It Was” will be recalled for us in picture and story by Dan Pullen on Wednesday evening, September 12 at 7 PM in the program room at Mary Jacobs Memorial Library, 63 Washington St., Rocky Hill, NJ. … Continue reading
Come join us on September 26th at 7 pm to learn about Montgomery Township in the 1800s. The population was a few thousand people, there was no municipal building, the unpaved roads and the bridges were maintained by the … Continue reading
As a prelude to this year’s May in Montgomery Touring the Millstone Valley National Scenic Byway, the Van Harlingen Historical Society is proud to present a lecture by John D.S. Hatch titled Historic Preservation, Urban Redevelopment, and the Rural Landscape: How New … Continue reading