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Delaware & Raritan Canal J^unteiiJon J^tsitoncal J^etuSletter VOL. 20, NO. 2 Published by Hunterdon County Historical Society SPRING 1984 Delaware & Raritan Canal Celebrates Its ISOth Anniversary —Big Day is June 23 A scene along the D & R Canal. Towlines extended eighty to one hundred feet in front of the boat to the mules. Trenton Public Library Open House at the Society's Holcombe-Jimison On June 16 a conference on the canal age in Farmstead is but one of the activities scheduled for America, "The Delaware and Raritan Canal: A 150th June 23, 1984 along the Delaware and Raritan Canal Anniversary Symposium" will be held at the State to commemorate the 150th anniversary of it's formal Museum Auditorium in Trenton. In conjunction with opening in June 1843. the Symposium a special office of the U.S. Post Office The Delaware River Mill Society, at the Pralls• will be established at the Museum with a D & R Canal ville Mill, near Stockton will have wagon rides, canoe cancellation. Registrations for the symposium may be trips, exhibitions and screenings of "The D & R Canal." made with James C. Amon, D & R Canal Commission, Hunterdon County Historical Society, open house CN 402 (25 Calhoun Street, Trenton, NJ 08625. at the Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead adjacent to the Registration is $1.50 and optional luncheon $3.00; canal at the Toll Bridge, exhibits, leisurely strolls- total $4.50. along the banks of the canal, concert at 2 p.m. for (Continued on page 413) which it is suggested you bring lawn chairs. The pro• gress of the Holcombe-Jimison Restoration Committee's work on the barns and grounds since the open house last June will be evident. The Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead is located between Route 29 and the Delaware & Raritan Lambertville Historical Society, Cavallo Park, Canal immediately soutli of the Route 202 exhibit, poetry reading, picnic; the home of Ashbel bridge across the Delaware River between Stockton Welch, the canal's engineer, will be marked with a and Lambertville. Look for signs at entrance. plaque. Come out and spend the day on June 23. There are activities to appeal to everyone's interests. ,. 411 412 HUNTERDON HISTORICAL NEWSLETTER FOUND: Trimmer House» HUNTERDON HISTORICAL NEWSLETTER Published hall. Winter, Spring, by the Hunter• In the previous issue of Hunterdon Historical don County Historical Society, 1 14 Main St., Newsletter [Vol. 20, #11 in the article, "50TH ANNI• Flemington. N.,I. 08822 VERSARY OF HABS" it was noted the current status Pl.Til.lCA IlON COMMm i-r of the Trimmer House near Califon was unknown. Roxanne K. ("arkhuff, i ditor Several members responded to our plea for help in Phyllis D'Autrechy Kathleen J. Schrciner Waiter J. Young finding the house, the first of whom was Reverend William Bender of Califon. He reported the house had Library Hours been restored and was well cared for. Mrs. J.M. O'Grady, Thursday, 1-3 p.in. and Saturday lA p.m. historian of the Philhower Family Association, tele• TELEPHONE: 201/782-1091 phoned to identify the location of the house. A note US ISSn 0018-7850 from John Ely, West Orange, NJ, told us an article about the house had appeared in the 23 March 1967 OFFICERS & TKU.S II:ES President Kenneth V. Myers (1987) Hunterdon Democrat; that the property had been pur• Vice President tldwm K. Large, .)r. (1986) chased in 1931 by North Jersey Quarry co. and in 1940 Vice President Richard H. Stothoff (1987) a tenant, Samuel Hoover, lived there. Recording Secretary John W. Kuhl (1987) Corresponding Secretary Roxanne K. Carkhuft" (1986) Treasurer Frederick Stothoff (1985) Student member Ray Jachowski wrote and en• closed copies of the Historic Sites survey forms on the Phvilis B. D'Autrechy (1986) Chester PicU (1985) Douglas D. Martin (1986) AnneM.Thomas (1985) house completed by architectural historial Dennis Linn R. Creighton (1987) John F. Schenk, Trustee Emeritus Bertland for the Hunterdon County Cultural and Heri• tage Commission survey done prior to publication of its report in 1979. Mr. Bertland placed the construction date in the early 1 SCO's and describes it as a UA story stone house erected in two parts, with a bank cellar. Exterior de• tails include 4/2, 6/6, and 9/6 sash and eyebrow windows; recessed, board-line entries and a shed-roofed porch supported by stone piers. A doorway in the west pier leads to a small, stone lean-to or storeroom. The COPIER PURCHASED WITH DONATIONS original 4-bay unit (1808-1815) has a chimney in each gable. These provide two fireplaces in the cellar, one of Response to the request for donations to purchase which has a bake oven, and a third in one of the south a copy machine for the Society headquarters provided rooms above. The narrow, rear portion of the first approximately '/t of the purchase cost. The Board of floor is divided into two small chambers by a small Trustees approved purchase of a new Canon PC 20 stair hall and entry. There is a random rubble stone model witii tiie capacity to reproduce in tliree colors — barn of the same period adjacent in very good condition. black, brown or blue for SI 200. The machine makes excellent copies, even reproducing photographs, too. The house is set on a hill facing south above the The Board thanks the members wiiose contributions north bank of the South Branch of the Raritan River. made this purchase possible. The house has had only minor alterations. Spring-house ruins are visible. The bank barn is a 3-bay stone struc• Marion O. Harris ture on a stone stable with a frame supported forebay. Robert Craig ' ' There are ventilation slits in gables and batten doors Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Christie r, hung on strap hinges. Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Dilley In 1802 David Trimmer purchased a 332 acre John Ely Mr. & Mrs. John P. Corcoran tract from his brother, John. The house was built in Mr. & Mrs. Harry Eisen 'the 74+ acre portion of the tract which William Trim• John E. Wolverton mer inherited from his father, David in 1824. The farm Mr. & Mrs. Willard Young was owned and occupied later in the 19th Century by Mr. & Mrs. Charles Jurgensen William's daughter, Elizabeth and her husband, Jacob It's not too late to send YOUR contribution to• A. Weise. ward purchase of the machine. S300 is still needed to cover the total purchase price. Do it today! SPRING 1984 413 (Continued from page 411) constructing a feeder, which shall be so constructed as to form a navigable canal not less than thirty feet wide and four feet deep, to conduct water from any part of the river Delaware." A route for the canal was surveyed in 1816. This was followed generally, with but few ciianges, by chief engineer Canvass White, when construction began in late 1830. The care that went into the selection of the route accounted in part for its comparatively low cost. The work was expedited by dividing tiie project into divisions which, in turn, were divided into sections. The eastern division was supervised by John Hopkins, the middle by George T. Olmstead, and Edward A. DELAWARE AND RARITAN CANAL Douglas had charge of digging the canal through 1834 — 1984 Trenton and southwestward to the Delaware. Ashbel Welch, Jr., the youngest engineer, was placed in charge of digging the feeder northwestward from Trenton. Exhibitions to commemorate the canal opening Mr. Welch selected Lambertville for his head• are scheduled to begin: quarters. Workmen, for the most part Irish immigrants June 1 ~ Trenton Eree Public Library broLigiit here from Cork by the boat load, were housed June 5 - Rutgers University Libraries, New Bruns• in hastily built shanties south of town. Some of the wick workmen brought wives and children with them. In June 10 - Historical Society of Princeton the first year at Lambertville a severe epidemic of June 16 - "The Delaware & Raritan Canal: A cholera broke out among tiie workmen, with workmen Retrospective" at the State Museum "dropping on their feet", causing panic in the area as • through the Fall. the disease spread rapidly, y.-...^ , , Under the supervision of Mr. Welch, a board of health was appointed and given the authority to re• quire compliance with sanitary measures for residents of tlie town and its environs — whicii covered tiie DELAWARE & RARITAN CANAL workmen on the feeder. A hospital was set up in a nearly completed dwelling, Lilly Hill house. The dead The concept of a canal across New Jersey had were buried practically where they dropped, in Bur- been advanced as early as 1676 by William Penn. A rough's Woods on the Wolverton farm at Prallsville, on project to connect the waters of the Delaware and Bull's Island, between Somerset and Washington Cros• Raritan Rivers was seriously considered in 1804 as a sing, and on tiie Lilly farm just out of town on tiie means of transporting goods to markets. A route was Rock town Road. ,^ examined and a Legislative Act was passed authorizing Soon after the disease broke out in Lambertville the canal's construction by a private company. The workmen on other sections of the canal became ill. company was formed but did not succeed in the pro• Measures patterned after those devised in tiie outbreak ject. In 1816 and again in 1823 the practicality of such at Lambertville were employed to treat and halt the a canal was demonstrated as an asset to domestic trade spread of the disease. for the area. The main canal, connecting Bordeiitown on the A legislative act passed 4 February 1830 provided Delaware with New Brunswick on the Raritan.
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