Somerset County’s eekend through the 2018 ast Weekend Journey Tours, Exhibits & Special Events
Saturday, October 13, 2018 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sunday, October 14, 2018 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 the house, grounds and Boudinot’s Giving • Viewings of the film Reflections of Watchung Garden • Displays including a copy of Captain Parlin’s • Actors portraying historical characters Civil War Diary • 19th Century barn will be open USGA Museum • Paint Out! for artists of all media 77 Liberty Corner Road • Historical Displays Liberty Corner, NJ 07938 • Scavenger Hunts • Museum scavenger hunt • Kite flying • Tour of Test Center • Kids’ Crafts • Clay golf course architecture project • Boudinot’s Café • Pynes putting and SNAG golf (Starting New Codington Farmstead At Golf!) 15 Mount Horeb Road • History of the Pope Mansion presentation Warren, NJ 07059 • Guided tours Vermeule Mansion* 614 Greenbrook Road Jacobus Vanderveer House North Plainfield, NJ 07063 3055 River Road • Friends of Vermeule Mansion will discuss the Bedminster, NJ 07921 history of the Vermeule family, • Games and crafts for children the property, and their organization • Patriotic tie-dye and programs • Guided house tours • Youth activities • Film on the Pluckemin Cantonment • Tours of the home Dr. John Vermeule House • Fleetwood Camera Museum (photography) 223 Rock Avenue Saturday ONLY at 11:30 and 1:30: Green Brook, NJ 08812 200 Years of Popular Song, performance • Interpreted house tours by musical historian and balladeer • Display of historic household artifacts Linda Russell • Local historians will be on hand to discuss the Saturday ONLY at 3:00: Gotcha! Snapshots that homestead and the history of Green Brook Made History, presentation by photographer and educator Jim Del Giudice Kennedy-Martin-Stelle House* Sunday ONLY at 2:00: 200 Years of Popular 15 Mount Horeb Road Song, performance by musical historian Warren, NJ 07059 and balladeer Linda Russell • Hands-on Colonial pottery interactive workshops with potter Debbie Limoli Washington Rock Park Saturday ONLY at 1:00, 1:45 and 2:30: One Rock Road West Live performance of acoustic, contemporary Green Brook, NJ 08812 folk songs by Gordon Thomas Ward • Local historians will be on hand to discuss the history of Washington Rock Kirch-Ford-Terrill House • Free brochures and pamphlets describing the 1 Reinman Road area’s history Warren, NJ 07059 • Facilities available for picnicking, hiking and • Guided tours photography Mount Bethel Baptist Meeting House Mountainview Road and Mt. Bethel Road Warren, NJ 07059 • Guided tours 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 • American Quilting & Sewing Arts with • Guided tours of the church and sanctuary Dana Bala (Tours stop by 4:30 p.m. on Saturday) • Guided house tours by interpreters in period Relief Hose Company No. 2 Engine House clothing 16 Anderson Street • Period music performed by Tom Harabin Raritan, NJ 08869 • Exhibits on the Middlebrook Cantonment and • Firefighter-guided public tours 18th century life • Displays of vintage fire apparatus Andrew Ten Eyck House Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament 671 Old York Road NEW! 52 West Somerset Street Branchburg, NJ 08876 Raritan, NJ 08869 • Costumed interpreters • Guided tours • Antique sale and flea market Historic Brook Theater, also known Somerville Exempt Fire Museum as the Somerset Cultural Arts Center* 23 North Doughty Avenue 10 Hamilton Street Somerville, NJ 08876 Bound Brook, NJ 08805 • Fire fighter and Historical Committee tours and • Tours of the historic theater and organ artifact exhibits serenades Saturday ONLY at 2:30 (apx.): Horses will Saturday ONLY at 11:00 and 2:00: Silent film arrive to pull the museum’s 1880 Amoskaeg shorts accompanied with live music performed Steam Pumper in a parade for Somerville Fire by Bernie Anderson Department Inspection Day; the 1850 Downs & Sunday ONLY at 1:00: Silent film shorts Company hand pumper will be pulled accompanied with live music performed by firefighters by Brett Miller South Branch Schoolhouse Daniel Robert House, 2120 South Branch Road also known as Somerville Borough Hall Branchburg, NJ 08876 25 West End Avenue • Photographic exhibit of the history of the Somerville, NJ 08876 schoolhouse • Guided tours with access to rooms and areas • Photographic displays of local wildlife and not normally open to the public scenery by naturalist and Branchburg News • Photographs of Alexander Jackson Davis columnist, JJ Mish structures • Display of Neshanic Station history by the General John Frelinghuysen House, also Neshanic Historical Society known as the Raritan Public Library* Van Veghten House 54 East Somerset Street 9 Van Veghten Drive Raritan, NJ 08869 Bridgewater, NJ 08807 Sunday ONLY at 12:30: Musical performance • The Somerset County Historical Society by Erik Lichack and 18th Century Fashion will conduct tours by costumed docents demonstration by Eliza Vincz Old Presbyterian Graveyard Corner of East High and East Streets Please check Bound Brook, NJ 08805 www.SCHistoryWeekend.com • Reenactors portraying 19th century stone for the most updated information. carver Henry Sillcocks and women of 18th and early 19th century Bound Brook SOUTH COUNTY TOUR
Griggstown Bridgetender’s House Historic 1860 School House, 2 Griggstown Causeway also known as Millstone Borough Hall (Franklin Township) Princeton, NJ 08540 1353 Main Street • Display of antique farm tools Millstone, NJ 08844 • Learn about 19th and early 20th century rules Griggstown Schoolhouse for teachers and students, and the development 1065 Canal Road of school architecture in New Jersey (Franklin Township) Princeton, NJ 08540 • Display of 18th, 19th and 20th century (In the Griggstown Historic District behind the map reproductions Griggstown Reformed Church) • View early American scenes in 3D through • Local history exhibits a vintage stereoscope! • Continuous showing of the films: Griggstown: • Exhibition of vintage children’s books and Then and Now; The Griggstown Schoolhouse schoolbooks Story; The D&R Canal; The Restoration and • Children’s fashion through the years coloring Rededication of the Griggstown Schoolhouse; activities and The Millstone Scenic Byway Old Millstone Forge Harlingen Reformed Church NEW! 9 North River Street 2142 US Highway 206 Millstone, NJ 08844 Belle Mead, NJ 08502 • Skilled blacksmiths working in the traditional • Volunteers will be available to answer manner questions about the church and its archives • Display of original tools and machines used in • Demonstration by the Hunterdon County Rug different eras Artisans Guild on traditional rug hooking; • Hands-on experience when time allows materials will be available for visitors who Stoutsburg Sourland would like to try it NEW! African American Museum* • Historical reenactor and milliner Erin Wyckoff 189 Hollow Road Brown; she will making and selling her Skillman, NJ 08558 Colonial bonnets Saturday ONLY at 1:00: Hands-on Fall Fabric • Hymns played on the church Carillon Coasters Crafting Project • Games table for children Sunday ONLY at 2:00: Hands-on Fall Fabric • Homemade Dutch cookies, cider, tea and Coasters Crafting Project coffee will be served. Some of the recipes will be available to take home Van Liew-Suydam House Sunday ONLY at 12:30: Selections played by 280 South Middlebush Road church organist Regina Koebele-Demaree Franklin Township, NJ 08873 • Interactive display of games and toys that people enjoyed during the formation of our country Scan the QR Code • Hands-on display of everyday household items that are not so recognizable now to access our • Display of the Meadows Foundation photo interactive map! albums and historic house structure reports • Light refreshments will be served!
*Made possible by funds from the Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Commission, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. SOMERSET COUNTY BOARD OF CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS
Patrick Scaglione, Freeholder Director Brian D. Levine, Deputy Director Patricia L. Walsh, Freeholder Mark Caliguire, Freeholder Brian G. Gallagher, Freeholder
SOMERSET COUNTY CULTURAL & HERITAGE COMMISSION
Robert Bouwman, President Janice Haggerty, Vice President Rory Britt, Secretary Phyllis Fittipaldi, Treasurer Donald N. Esposito Kathy Faulks Stephanie Moench 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 Cathy Bunting, Administrative Assistant