The South Jersey Museum of American History provides expansive historical context.
Context is everything. That's a lesson clearly valued at the South Jersey Museum of American History, at 123 East High Street in Glassboro. It has taken into account the particular historical positioning of New Jersey, while at the same time remembering how the state fits into a much broader story. "The South Jersey Museum of American History has a national scope. We include southern New Jersey history, but our emphasis is on the entire United States,” said the museum’s curator,Jeffrey Norcross. "We cover five major areas of history: pre-Columbian, Colonial, political history, antique tools and equipment and farmsteads.” The range of artifacts that can be seen at the South Jersey Museum of American History is impressive, documenting a …
Destroyed by fire, the tavern’s site now occupied by The Shoppes at Woods Tavern
What is now the corner of Amwell Road and Route 206 has played a key role in the township’s history. The historic Woods Tavern once stood on the Amwell Road site that is now home to The Shoppes at Woods Tavern. A history, available in the Hillsborough Township Public Library’s historic collection, compiled by the 1947-48 eighth-grade class of what was then Bloomingdale School noted that the tavern—which was also a coach stop and hotel—was at the westerly end of Amwell Road (facing Amwell Road) and was built “somewhere about 1738.” Historians believe its name came from a reference to it as “The Tavern in the Woods.” Construction of a bridge across the Millstone River in Millstone contributed to the tavern’s success. As the site became a …
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jerseyjoed
4:09 pm on Friday, December 24, 2010
Nice article, however, if one exists, a picture of the original tavern would have been a nice touch. more ›