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  New Jersey Weekend Historical Happenings A Weekly Feature on  www.thehistorygirl.com Want to submit an event? Use our  event submission form . Saturday, April 29 - Harmony Township, Warren County Spring Open House Children Friendly Event and Site The Harmony Township Historical Society and the Historic Preservation Commission of Harmony Township invite the public to attend their annual Spring Open House at the historic VanNest-Hoff-Vannatta Farmstead on Saturday from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm. Admission is free. The farmstead is located at 3026 Belvidere Road, Route 519, just north of the Municipal Building in Harmony Township, NJ. - Watch live fiber arts and craft demonstrations - Open hearth cooking in the Summer Kitchen - Hit-and-miss engines on display - War Reenactors Come see the progress being made at the farmstead. The event will include tours of the circa 1750s main house, the restored wagon houses, and the one of a kind Dutch style barn.  For more information,

NEW JERSEY WEEKEND ESTATE SALES Click on each link for more information on the estate sale! Find something neat at an estate sale? Let us know! Hosting an estate sale? Send me an  e-mail  to be featured in our weekly post! Be the first to know about these sales on  Facebook ! Coins, Comics, Vintage Toys, and More! Woodland Park, NJ Estate Sale Woodland Park, NJ 07424 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Saturday 11:00 am - 3:00 pm Sunday

Women Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, May 3, 2017 On Wednesday, May 3 at 7:00 pm in Lambert Castle, the Passaic County Historical Society welcomes back Trish Chambers, as she presents "Women Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court." Four magnificent women have achieved the position of Supreme Court Justice to date. Join Trish Chambers Productions in a fascinating introduction to these accomplished jurists. This program also introduces the audience to the traditions and history of the Supreme Court. The program is free to the public and follows a business meeting of the Historical Society. The four women who have served on the Supreme Court of the United States. From left to right: Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (Ret.), Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Justice Elena Kagan in the Justices' Conference Room, prior to Justice Kagan's Investiture Ceremony on October 1, 2010.

Wool Days Spring Festival Celebration Saturday and Sunday, April 29 and 30, 2017 Monmouth County Historical Association will host the Wool Days Spring Festival program at Holmes-Hendrickson House, 62 Longstreet Road, on Saturday, April 29 and Sunday, April 30 from 12:00 noon - 3:00 pm. In addition to the traditional Wool Days festivities, MCHA had added expanded programming and events this year for families to enjoy.

  New Jersey Weekend Historical Happenings A Weekly Feature on  www.thehistorygirl.com Want to submit an event? Use our  event submission form . Saturday, April 22  - Princeton, Mercer County Stony Brook Walking Tour Before there was a "Princeton," six Quaker families established a community on the fertile ground along Stony Brook. This hike explores the lives of the early settlers and the community they established, while following a portion of the trail George Washington took from Trenton to the Princeton Battlefield. Admission: $5 per person and includes farmhouse museum admission. Tours begin  at the Updike Farmstead farmhouse, 354 Quaker Road, Princeton, NJ at 2:00 pm and ends at 3:30 pm. Space is limited. For more information and to reserve  tickets , call 609-921-6748 or visit  www.princetonhistory.org . ----------------------------------- Saturday, April 22  -  Morris Township, Morris County Luck O’ The Farm: Irish Fa

NEW JERSEY WEEKEND ESTATE SALES Click on each link for more information on the estate sale! Find something neat at an estate sale? Let us know! Hosting an estate sale? Send me an  e-mail  to be featured in our weekly post! Be the first to know about these sales on  Facebook ! Diggers' Delight Piscataway, NJ Estate Sale Piscataway, NJ  08854 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Friday 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Saturday

  New Jersey Weekend Historical Happenings A Weekly Feature on  www.thehistorygirl.com Want to submit an event? Use our  event submission form . Saturday, April 15   - Mount Tabor, Morris County "Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire" On Saturday, attend "Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire," at the Bethel in Trinity Park, Mount Tabor. Doors open at  7:00 pm and the program starts at  7:30 pm.  Accredited actress Michele  LaRue, in period costume, will portray a fictional speaker in this witty, satiric monologue written by pro-suffragist Marie Jenny Howe in 1912. Many women fought against the vote in the early 1900s, but none with more charm, prettier clothes, and less logic than the fictional speaker. "Women suffrage is the reform against nature," declares Howe's unlikely, but irresistibly likable heroine. Reviewers have called this production "wicked" in its wit, an

NEW JERSEY WEEKEND ESTATE SALES Click on each link for more information on the estate sale! Find something neat at an estate sale? Let us know! Hosting an estate sale? Send me an  e-mail  to be featured in our weekly post! Be the first to know about these sales on  Facebook ! Diggers' Delight Teaneck, NJ Estate Sale Teaneck, NJ  07666 9:00 - 5:00 pm  Friday 11:00 am - 5:00 pm Saturday

Insanity and Women in New Jersey By Joanne Rajoppi New Jersey has a mixed report card in its history and treatment of mental illness. In her travels throughout New England 19th century social advocate Dorothea Lynn Dix chronicled the state of the “insane.” In her 1843 report to the Massachusetts legislature Dix stated that insane persons were “in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods and locked into obedience.” Many people considered “ill” in the head and depressed were simply locked away in attics or basements by their families or warehoused in almshouses to waste away and die. Although founded with good intentions (before the rise of hospitals) almshouses were often places of horror where little or no care was provided to the indigent. New Jersey Lunatic Asylum, Trenton, circa 1860.

  New Jersey Weekend Historical Happenings A Weekly Feature on  www.thehistorygirl.com Want to submit an event? Use our  event submission form . Saturday, April 8   - Princeton, Mercer County The Magic and History of Marquand Park In 1953, the Marquand family donated 17 acres of their estate, Guernsey Hall, to the municipality of Princeton to serve as an arboretum and passive recreation park. Once part of a 30-acre farm owned by Judge Richard Stockton Field, Marquand Park is home to more than 150 different tree specimens, some dating back over 170 years! Join Bob Wells, Associate Director of Arboriculture at Morris Arboretum, and Roland Machold, former Marquand Park Foundation board member, as they share the history of the property and highlight the native and exotic trees in the collection on Saturday at 11:00 am. The tour will last approximately one hour.  Tickets are FREE, but registration is required, as space is limited. Starting location

NEW JERSEY WEEKEND ESTATE SALES Click on each link for more information on the estate sale! Find something neat at an estate sale? Let us know! Hosting an estate sale? Send me an  e-mail  to be featured in our weekly post! Be the first to know about these sales on  Facebook ! Lionel Trains Millington, NJ Estate Sale Millington, NJ 07946 14:00 - 8:00 pm  Friday 9:30 am - 4:00 pm Saturday & Sunday

Living History Weekend at the Abraham Staats House in South Bound Brook  Commemorating the 240th Anniversary of the “Battle of Bound Brook” ~ April 13, 1777 April 8 & 9, 2017 Join us for an exciting and historic weekend, April 8 & 9, 2017, as we commemorate the 240th anniversary of the Battle of Bound Brook. The two-day program, taking place in Bound Brook and South Bound Brook, explores the American Revolutionary War during the time-frame of the Battle of Bound Brook and the foraging wars of 1777. Learn about and experience this important period in New Jersey and America's history.