Mercer County - Trenton - “Millham’s Journey: From Trenton to Lawrence and Back Again”

Saturday, May 18 – Mercer County

Trenton Historical Society “100 years” Lecture Series
presents

“Millham’s Journey:
From Trenton to Lawrence and Back Again”
Saturday, May 18, 2019, at 2:00 p.m.

Speaker - Dennis Waters

Meet at 16 East Trenton Center
601 North Clinton Avenue

Free parking is provided in a lot across from the East Trenton Center

The Trenton Historical Society, as a continuing part of its centennial celebration, will host a free public lecture about the story of Trenton’s Millham Neighborhood. (Today we might call it the Top Road or East Trenton Neighborhood.)

It’s been a part of Trenton. It’s been a part of Lawrence. Briefly, it was its own township. It’s Millham, the largely forgotten community that used to straddle the D&R Canal along the Trenton-Lawrence border. Join us to learn the history of this neighborhood, which began as a mill town, evolved into a pottery and rubber center, seceded from its municipal government and then disappeared from memory.

Dennis Waters is a retired internet publisher. He recently stepped down after twelve years of service as Lawrence Township Historian. Dennis has served on the Lawrence Township Planning Board and as a trustee of the Lawrence Historical Commission, the Lawrence-Hopewell Trail and the Lawrence Township Community Foundation. In his spare time, Dennis is a lichenologist and has just completed the first lichenological survey of Mercer County in cooperation with the New York Botanical Garden. He received his Ph.D. in advanced technology from the Watson Engineering School at Binghamton University.
Location: 601 N Clinton Ave, Trenton, NJ 08638, USA

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