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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, June 30  - Flemington, Hunterdon County The Union Hotel Named a Historic Site in Journalism Join us in Flemington at the Hunterdon County Historical Society at 12:00 noon on Saturday when the New Jersey chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists unveils a plaque commemorating the role of the Union Hotel as the hub of world-wide media coverage during the Lindbergh kidnapping trial in 1935. The plaque commemorates the hotel’s role in housing an international press corps that converged on Flemington for the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who was tried and convicted for the kidnapping and murder of the infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh. Repo...

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 ! Lots of Antique Goodies East Brunswick, NJ Estate Sale East Brunswick, NJ 08816 9:00 am - 5:00 pm  Friday & Saturday

  New Jersey Weekend Historical Happenings A Weekly Feature on  www.thehistorygirl.com Want to submit an event? Use our  event submission form . Saturday, June 23  - Princeton, Mercer County Vintage Base Ball in Princeton Calling all baseball-lovers and history-buffs: the Historical Society of Princeton will present its annual 19th century "base ball" game on Saturday starting at 11:00 am at Greenway Meadows Park, 275 Rosedale Road, Princeton, NJ. The event is free and open to all; spectators are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets. Part game, part show, part history lesson and ALL fun, the Flemington Neshanock and Monmouth Furnace will play a competitive match of bare-handed baseball, wearing period uniforms and using rules from 1864 or 1873. The event will also include a short lesson on the h...

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 ! Lots of Antique Furniture Hammonton, NJ Estate Sale Hammonton, NJ 08037 9:00 am - 4:00 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, June 16  - Martinsville, Somerset County New Jersey Author Launches New Book at Dedication of Another Washington Rock, Lost in History for Over 200 Years, on Revolutionary War Middlebrook Campground On Saturday starting at 11:00 am, a ceremony to commemorate the rediscovery and to dedicate Washington Rock at Middlebrook will be held at the rock adjacent to The Eagle’s Nest Museum at 791 Miller Lane in Martinsville, NJ. At the event, author and historian Robert A. Mayers will announce the release of his new book: Revolutionary New Jersey: Forgotten Towns and Crossroads of the American Revolution. Mayers will speak on the history of the rock outcropping and tell the story of its rediscovery. Herbert Patullo, owner of the site, will guide visitors to the nearby rock. The author met Patullo, a prominen...

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 ! Packed in Park Ridge Park Ridge, NJ Estate Sale Park Ridge, NJ 07656 9:00 am - 3:00 pm  Saturday 10:00 am - 2:00 pm  Sunday

Cape May Commemorates 60th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Visit and Stirring 1958 Speech 'Nonviolence & Racial Justice' Dr. Martin Luther King was guest speaker for the 1958 Friends General Conference in Cape May, N.J. Hear the powerful words that brought people to their feet in resounding applause on June 27, 1958 Members of the public are invited to attend and join in a community celebration of an important moment in local and national history during "Martin Luther King Jr. in Cape May: A 60th Anniversary Celebration," on Wednesday, June 27 at 7:00 pm at Cape May Convention Hall, 714 Beach Avenue, Cape May, NJ. Admission is free and light refreshments will be available. This special evening of remembrance, music and fellowship is presented by The City of Cape May, in association with the Center for Community Arts (CCA), the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts and Humanities (MAC), Chamber of Commerce of Greater Cape May, Macedonia Baptis...

  New Jersey Weekend Historical Happenings A Weekly Feature on  www.thehistorygirl.com Want to submit an event? Use our  event submission form . Saturday, June 9  - Cranbury, Middlesex County 240th Anniversary Celebration of George Washington in Cranbury and the Battle of Monmouth Cranbury Historical & Preservation Society invites you to attend the celebration of this historic event on Saturday from 1:00 - 4:00 pm at 53 S. Main Street, Cranbury, NJ on the site of the home where Washington stayed on June 26, 1778, when he was on his way to the Battle of Monmouth. The afternoon event will include refreshments and beverages; period games, races and crafts; live violin and fife music and a story read by Sam Davis who will portray George Washington. Tickets are $7 each for Saturday afternoon and can be purchased online at www.cranburyhistory.org/shop (Event Tickets). ----------------------------------- ...

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 ! Militaria and More East Brunswick, NJ Estate Sale East Brunswick, NJ 08816 9:00 am - 5:00 pm  Friday & Saturday

Presentation on Colonial Chippendale Furniture at the Old Dutch Parsonage Saturday, June 16, 2018 On Saturday, June 16, at 1:30 pm, as part of the museum’s year-long celebration of famed furniture maker Thomas Chippendale’s 300th birthday, historian Michelle Fitzgerald will deliver a presentation on the Chippendale-style furniture of colonial Annapolis at the Old Dutch Parsonage historic site. Detail of Billiard Table, made in Annapolis, 1797-1800, Winterthur Museum Collection