Somerset County’s eekend through the 2019 ast Weekend Journey Tours, Exhibits & Special Events Saturday, October 12, 2019 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sunday, October 13, 2019 Noon - 4:00 p.m. NORTH COUNTY TOUR Boudinot-Southard-Ross Estate Texier House Museum 135 North Maple Avenue 10 Mountain Boulevard Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 Watchung, NJ 07069 • Tour house, grounds and Giving Garden • Viewings of the film Reflections of Watchung • Actors portraying historical characters • Displays including a copy of Captain Parlin’s • Paint Out! for artists of all media Civil War Diary • Scavenger Hunts; Kite flying; Kids’ Crafts USGA Museum • Boudinot’s Café 77 Liberty Corner Road Brick Academy Liberty Corner, NJ 07938 15 W. Oak Street Saturday Ongoing: Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 • Plein air painting of the Museum • What Put Somerset Hills on the Map exhibit • Create a golf green with Model Magic • 1809 schoolhouse with costumed teacher • Handle historic clubs and other artifacts Jacobus Vanderveer House • Story time with USGA Museum Librarian 3055 River Road • Photo opportunity with U.S. Open Trophy Bedminster, NJ 07921 • Tours of the Museum with the Historian (located in River Road Park) • Free putting on the Pynes Putting Green • Docent lead tours Sunday Ongoing (Museum open until 5:00): • Child activities • Self-guided scavenger hunt • Coloring pages and crafts Kennedy-Martin-Stelle Farmstead* • Free putting on the Pynes Putting Green 450 King George Road Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 Vermeule Mansion • Tours of the barn and farm house 614 Greenbrook Road Saturday 11:00-1:00 & Sunday 1:00-3:00: North Plainfield, NJ 07063 Oscar Peterson Shadow Portraits workshop • Friends of Vermeule Mansion will discuss the Saturday & Sunday 2:00: Don Hart Beekeeping history of the Vermeule family, property and Demo & Discussion their organization Saturday 3:00-4:00 & Sunday 12:00-1:00: • Youth activity and tours of the home Debbie Limoli Colonial Pottery workshops • Fleetwood Camera Museum Saturday & Sunday 2:00: Meet Molly Pitcher, Kirch-Ford-Terrill House with Kim Hanley 1 Reinman Road Saturday ONLY at 11:00 & Sunday 12:30: Warren, NJ 07059 The Vermeule Blue Hills Farm, a Revolutionary • Guided tours Campground with John Daniel, direct Mount Bethel Baptist Meeting House descendant of Cornelius Vermeule Mountainview and Mt. Bethel Roads Washington Rock Park Warren, NJ 07059 One Rock Road West • Guided tours Green Brook, NJ 08812 Pluckemin School House also known as • Local historians will discuss the history of The Center for Contemporary Art* Washington Rock 2020 Burnt Mills Road NEW! • Free brochures and pamphlets describing the Bedminster, NJ 07921 area’s history • Three exhibitions of contemporary art • Facilities available for picnicking, hiking • Display of historical photos and photography • Museum scavenger hunt for families • Playground and facilities for picnicking Saturday & Sunday 1:00-3:00: Live artist demos Scan the QR Code in the pottery and painting studios to access our interactive map! CENTRAL COUNTY TOUR Abraham Staats House* Presbyterian Church of Bound Brook 17 Von Steuben Lane 409 Mountain Avenue South Bound Brook, NJ 08880 Bound Brook, NJ 08805 • Unraveling History: Textiles and quilts in • Guided tours of the church and sanctuary the 18th & 19th Centuries with Dana Bala (Tours stop by 4:30 p.m. on Saturday) • Guided house tours by interpreters in Relief Hose Company No. 2 Engine House period clothing 16 Anderson Street • Period music performed by Tom Harabin Raritan, NJ 08869 • Exhibits on the Middlebrook Cantonment • Firefighter-guided public tours and 18th century life • Displays of vintage fire apparatus Andrew Ten Eyck House Somerville Exempt Fire Museum 671 Old York Road 23 North Doughty Avenue Branchburg, NJ 08876 Somerville, NJ 08876 • Costumed interpreters • Fire fighter and Historical Committee tours and • Antique sale and flea market artifact exhibits Daniel Robert House, Saturday ONLY 2:30 (apx.): Horses will arrive also known as Somerville Borough Hall to pull the museum’s 1880 Amoskaeg Steam 25 West End Avenue Pumper in a parade for Somerville Fire Somerville, NJ 08876 Department Inspection Day; the 1850 Downs & • Guided tours with access to rooms and areas Co. hand pumper will be pulled not normally open to the public by firefighters. Parade will start at 4:00 • Photographs of Alexander Jackson Davis structures South Branch School House 2120 South Branch Road General John Frelinghuysen House, also Branchburg, NJ 08876 known as the Raritan Public Library • Photographic exhibition: History of the School 54 East Somerset Street House Raritan, NJ 08869 • Display on Neshanic Station history by the Sunday ONLY 12:00-4:00: Re-enactors Neshanic Historical Society portraying George and Martha Washington will • Display by Local Naturalist and Photo greet guests and talk about their lives Journalist, J.J. Mish Old Presbyterian Graveyard • Display of Antique Woodworking Tools Corner of East High and East Streets Van Veghten House Bound Brook, NJ 08805 9 Van Veghten Drive (Next to the Bound Brook Memorial Library, 402 Bridgewater, NJ 08807 East High St., Bound Brook, NJ 08805) • The Somerset County Historical Society Saturday ONLY 10:00-5:00: Re-enactor will conduct tours by costumed docents portraying 19th century stone carver Saturday & Sunday Ongoing: Uniformed Henry Sillcocks will talk about his trade representatives of the NJ Sons of the American Philip Van Horne House* Revolution will demonstrate 941 East Main Street firing a 6 pounder colonial cannon Bridgewater, NJ 08807 Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage Saturday & Sunday Ongoing: 71 Somerset Street • Celebrate the 240th anniversary of Simcoe’s Somerville, NJ 08876 Raid on our interactive tour! (Tours run • George Washington, Sportsman & Scholar tour 1 hour 15 minutes) • Revolutionary Rivals: Rutgers & Princeton in • Live music and colonial dancing Colonial New Jersey exhibit celebrating college Football’s 150th Birthday • Outdoor play with colonial-period toys and games SOUTH COUNTY TOUR Blawenberg Reformed Church* Harlingen Reformed Church 424 County Road 518 2142 US Highway 206 Skillman, NJ 08558 Belle Mead, NJ 08502 • Sanctuary and church grounds will be open for • A large quilting frame and quilt will be set up public visitation for guests to try their hand at sewing • Church members will provide information and • Guests can also try writing with a quill pen and answer questions at locations in the church water soluble ink Sunday ONLY 2:00: Organist Kathleen S. • Apples and whole cloves will be available for Connolly will present a recital reflecting the children to make pomanders to take home Dutch roots of the church and area settlers, • Tables and chairs will be set up for visitors to including music by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck enjoy “Dutch cakes” (cookies) and drinks and contemporary Dutch composer Ad Saturday ONLY: Following Saturday’s event Wammes. life-long Montgomery resident Dr. Dan Pullen will share photos about life in the State Village Griggstown Bridgetender’s House at Skillman during the 1930’s and 1940’s and 2 Griggstown Causeway talk about the contributions of the Harlingen (Franklin Township) Princeton, NJ 08540 Dutch Reformed Church and its members to the • Display of antique farm tools area • Screenings of the film Farming in the Sunday ONLY 1:00-1:30: Mini recital by the Millstone Valley church’s organist Anita Davidson showcasing Hageman House and Farm the church’s pipe organ 209 South Middlebush Road Historic 1860 School House, Somerset, NJ 08873 also known as Millstone Borough Hall • Guided tours of the house and barns 1353 Main Street Saturday ONLY 1:00: The American Revolution Millstone, NJ 08844 and New Jersey’s Connection To It with award- • Learn about 19th and early 20th century rules winning photographer and author Walter for teachers and students, and the development Choroszewski of school architecture in Sunday ONLY 1:00: The Founding Fathers of New Jersey America with award-winning photographer • Display of 18th, 19th and 20th century and author Walter Choroszewski map reproductions Harlingen Church Parsonage • View early American scenes in 3D through 34 Dutchtown Harlingen Rd NEW! a vintage stereoscope! Belle Mead NJ 08502 • Exhibition of vintage children’s books and • Docents will be available to answer questions schoolbooks while touring this 1846 house • Children’s fashion through the years coloring • A puzzle will be available for fun as this was a activities common Colonial era past time Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum* 189 Hollow Road Skillman, NJ 08558 Saturday ONLY 1:00-3:00: Plush Pumpkins Sunday ONLY 2:00-4:00: Plush Pumpkins Please check www.SCHistoryWeekend.com for the most updated information. ET C RS OU E N M T *Made possible by funds from the Somerset County O Y S Cultural & Heritage Commission, a partner of the Cuural Herage C New Jersey State Council on the Arts. O N M O M I S S I SOMERSET COUNTY BOARD OF CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS Brian D. Levine, Freeholder Director Patricia L. Walsh, Deputy Director Brian G. Gallagher, Freeholder Shanel Y. Robinson, Freeholder Sara Sooy, Freeholder SOMERSET COUNTY CULTURAL & HERITAGE COMMISSION Stephanie Moench, President Janice Haggerty, Vice President Rory Britt, Secretary Phyllis Fittipaldi, Treasurer Robert Bouwman Donald N. Esposito Kathy Faulks Dennis Quinlan Ann Osterdale Rosenblum Brian G. Gallagher, Freeholder Liaison Kaitlin Bundy SCC&HC Manager Thomas D’Amico, AICP/PP Historic Sites Coordinator Natalie Zaman Program Coordinator Robert Meyer Special Projects Assistant Cathy Bunting, Administrative Assistant.