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Fall, 2005 Newsletter The Link joining the sites along the rivers Volume 7, Issue 3 Raritan Millstone Heritage Alliance Fall, 2005 President’s Message CROSSROADS OF THE AMERICAN - Guidebook - REVOLUTION STATE HERITAGE AREA The new edition of the Guidebook is expected next spring. Significant investment of time and effort has In August, Acting Governor Richard J. Codey signed an executive order been made toward assembling information and re- that declares New Jersey a Crossroads of the American Revolution and cruitment of advertising. Our publication goal of designates a Crossroads of the American Revolution State Heritage 50,000 copies distributed free will only be met Area. through advertisements placed in the Guidebook. We have reached a critical point in the process The area comprises 213 municipalities in 14 counties, including Bergen, when it seems that we might fall short of our goal. Camden, Hudson, Hunterdon, Passaic, Morris, Essex, Union, Somerset, Thanks to Abe Suydam for submitting a letter to the Middlesex, Monmouth, Mercer, Burlington, and Gloucester. The State Link editor (found on page ) suggesting how im- Heritage Area includes a national park, 5 state parks, 13 National His- portant our advertisers are to the success of this toric Landmarks, and more than 250 other National Register of Historic venture. We encourage our members to follow Places sites and districts, all having resources of the Revolutionary War through on Abe’s suggestions to give area busi- period. nesses an incentive to continue their support of the Alliance. The designation is expected to assist in the passage of a measure pend- ing in the House of Representatives that would establish a National - African American Symposium - Heritage Area in New Jersey. Identical legislation passed in the Senate in Many thanks to the First Baptist Church of Lincoln July. On the federal level, designation of a NHA would authorize $10 Gardens for hosting the symposium on The Role of million in funding to assist preservation, recreational, and educational the African American in the American Revolution efforts by state, county, and local governments, and private cultural and was held on October 1, 2005. tourism groups. - Board Meeting - The mission of the Crossroads NHA will be to raise popular under- standing of the historical significance of these sites, to provide an area- Please join us for the monthly Alliance Board meet- wide network between established historic sites, state parks, private ings, the next of which will be on October 20, 2005 property owners, local governments, not-for-profits, and other civic at the Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Com- organizations in order to facilitate further preservation and to offer a mission. forum for new initiatives on site use, management, and historical inter- pretation. National Heritage Areas create significant economic opportu- - RMHA Website - nities, increasing regional tourism by highlighting historic sites and cul- If you haven’t seen our new website, visit tural events. www.raritanmillstone.org. The Guidebook, event calendar, and links to other preservation organiza- Cate Litvack, executive director of the Crossroads of the American tions are all available on our site! Revolution Association, said Codey’s executive order will help this and future generations protect and appreciate the natural cultural and his- -Welcome- toric resources of New Jersey’s significant Revolutionary War heritage. Welcome to new members Diane Simko Sylvia and “The designation of a Crossroads of the American Revolution State Mrs. Portia Orton, and to new member site the Heritage Area is historic,” Litvack said. “It gives us a cohesive frame- Millstone Historic District. work for telling the important, interrelated stories of how New Jersey and its citizens contributed to the birth of our nation.” - Peter A. Primavera Raritan Millstone Heritage Alliance P.O. Box 5583 Somerset, N.J. 08875-5583 an organization of individuals and historic sites working to promote and preserve the heritage of Central New Jersey officers AFRICAN AMERICAN SYMPOSIUM President: Peter A. Primavera The Role of the African American in the American Revolution Vice President: Ann Suydam & Genealogical Workshop Secretary: Sarah Israel Treasurer: Everett Zabriskie The First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens, Somerset, N.J. was the venue for an African American Symposium held on October 1, 2005. The Raritan directors Millstone Heritage Alliance and the Jersey Blue Chapter, Daughters of the Rev. Everett Zabriskie American Revolution sponsored the event entitled “The Role of the African American in the American Revolution.” Ann Suydam Rev. Bruce G. Freeman The Reverend Dr. Deforest Sories, senior pastor of the church, delivered a George Dawson warm welcome. He was followed by Dr. Giles Wright, Director, Afro- Marilyn Rautio American History Programs at the New Jersey Historical Commission, speaking on “Black New Jerseyans and the American Revolutionary War.” Donald Peck Fred Minus, a retired mechanic and a re-enactor at the Old Barracks in Dr. Paul Jennings Trenton presented “The Testimony of Samuel Sutphin,” the dramatic ac- Sarah Israel count of Sutphin, a Revolutionary War soldier, as he fights to get his pen- sion. Arthur Lefkowitz, a businessman and independent researcher, offered Michael Boylan a slide presentation of “William (Billy) Lee in the American Revolution.” Lee Constance O’Grady acted as Washington’s personal bodyguard throughout the war. Marjorie Freeman Carol Natarelli The afternoon program included a new trunk “African American Presence in the American Revolution,” from the Middlesex County Cultural & Heritage Peter Primavera Commission’s traveling trunk series entitled Time of Turmoil. Presented by Marjorie Watson Michael Boylan, this trunk details the experience of the Revolutionary War Betty Scott through the life of Private Oliver Cromwell, an African American soldier. Kathleen Williamson Many of the attendees took advantage of a Genealogical Workshop con- John Allen ducted by Karen Stroever, N. J. State Daughters of the American Revolution Paula Henry Registrar. She emphasized the importance of recording our family histories Bonita Grant for future generations. A genealogical researcher at the DAR National Headquarters, Hollis Gentry spoke about black genealogy from 1850 back to the Revolutionary era. The organization meets the third Thursday of each month, with the Congratulations to Marjorie Kler Freeman and Karen Stroever for co- hosting this very important and informative event. exception of July and August, at designated historic and museum sites in the region. Link editor: Catherine Bull 732-247-8880 2 Plainsboro Museum, down black-oak Plainsboro Preserved memories of Rotolactor Days by George Dawson If you’re looking for glimpses of what Plainsboro looked like 35 years ago, you will have to look pretty hard in many parts of town, that much has changed since 1970. Townhouse and single-home and office-park development has transformed this once placid Millstone Valley com- munity so thoroughly, that Plainsboro today is known more for its New York and Trenton commuters than for the dairy farmers who once staked a claim to regional (and even national) note. Your search for old Plainsboro is made much easier by a convocation of signs along Scudders Mill and Plainsboro Roads directing travelers to a 19th-century farmhouse near the town center approached between two rows of black oaks: the one-time home of Plainsboro founder-statesman John Van Buren Wicoff, incongruously set amid a recent-vintage municipal complex. The Wicoff house, now municipally owned, is the home of the Plainsboro Museum, whose 17 exhibit areas on the ground floor capture much of what transpired in town B.T.* The Plainsboro Museum, open on 1st and 3rd Sundays between 2 and 4:30 p.m. (and other hours by appoint- ment), offers collections of artifacts of farming, industrial, and transportation activities from the town’s eclectic past, with major representation for the Walker-Gordon dairy farms, its principal 20th-century feature. Walker- Gordon, a high-tech dairy business opened in Boston in 1891, occupied the town’s attention for 74 years (before closing in 1971). The dairy gave the nation and world Elsie the Borden Cow, and the Rotolactor, a carousel- mounted milking machine accommodating 300 cows per hour, with its own observation deck for tourists. Walker-Gordon milk bottles and collectibles (including models of Elsie) permeate the exhibit cases. Herman Mueller mosaic murals from the Rotolactor room ornament the corners. Modern Plainsboro began in 1971, with municipal approval of the 792-acre Princeton meadows development project for Lincoln Properties, of Dallas, Texas, for the west end of town. Other developments and subdivisions swiftly followed. (*before town-houses) (continued on page 4) 3 The town itself is relatively new, as municipalities go, incorporated only in 1919 from parts of South Brunswick and Cranbury (the last of the 25 municipalities in Middlesex County to be established.) Yet the township contains signs of what may actually be Middlesex County’s oldest settlement, a 3,700-year-old residential site from the Terminal Ar- chaic period, discovered by archaeological dig in 1982, prior to state construction of the overpass intersection for Scudders Mill Road with U.S. Route 1. Some artifacts from the dig of the paleo-Indian living area are displayed in the museum. Plainsboro, as a European settlement, began in the early 18th century, when a tavern stop for travelers
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