Morris County - Morris Twp - Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
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Morris County - Morristown - From Farmland to Elegant Tables: A History of Land Use in Morristown and Morris Township
Sunday, September 15 -- Morris County From Farmland to Elegant Tables: A History of Land Use in Morristown and Morris Township Sunday, September 15, 12:15 p.m. to 4 p.m. FREE PROGRAM Explore the history of land use through special presentations at Macculloch Hall Historical Museum (45 Macculloch Ave., Morristown, NJ), The Morristown and Morris Township Library (1 Miller Rd., Morristown, NJ) and The Morris County Historical Society at Acorn Hall (68 Morris Ave., Morristown, NJ). Tour Macculloch Hall’s historic garden at 12:15 p.m. (Refreshments will be provided). Then hear Joseph Grabas, author of Owning New Jersey (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2014) talk about the history of buying land in Morris County and New Jersey in the Morristown and Morris Township Library’s Lower Level Meeting Room at 1:30 p.m. After the talk venture over to the Morris County Historical Society at ...
Morris County - Morristown - The Franklin Park Tragedy,
Tuesday, September 10 – Morris County The Franklin Park Tragedy , Tuesday, September 10 th at 7:00 p.m. in the Lower Level Meeting Room of the Morristown and Morris Township Library. On March 1, 1894, two African American men broke into a home in rural Franklin Park and murdered a white woman and her daughter before her husband fought and killed the attackers. The newspapers called it the “Franklin Park Tragedy,” and the story captivated public attention nationally and abroad. Another tragedy came afterward, with the racist forced expulsion of many local African American residents. Author Brian Armstrong, Vice-President, Central Region, of the League of Historical Societies of New Jersey and former President of the South River Historical and Preservation Society, will tell the shocking story of this “sundown town” and how it evolved into the diverse community that exists today. ...
Morris County - Morris Twp - "a small thing but my own": Photographs by Jim Delgiudice
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Morris County - Morristown - Civil War Women of Compassion, Courage, and Grit
Sunday, March 10 – Morris County Civil War Women of Compassion, Courage, and Grit A Lecture by Rich Rosenthal 2 p.m. at the Morristown and Morris Township Library, 1 Miller Road, Morristown, NJ Join us in the library’s lower level meeting room, for a story of wartime survival—not from cannons and bullets—but from life itself. Rich Rosenthal, president of the North Jersey Civil War Round Table, has lectured on numerous historical subjects. He was a founding member of the North Jersey American Revolution Round Table, along with pre-eminent New Jersey historian, the late John T. Cunningham. Mr. Rosenthal will tell us about New Jersey’s own Cornelia Hancock, who defiantly goes to Gettysburg after being rejected as a nurse for being too pretty; Mary Ann Bickerdyke, who set up hospitals and kitchens and even followed General Sherman through the mountains of Georgia on the way to Atlanta; and Sara Pryor, who lived through privati...
Morris County - Morris Twp - “An Afternoon with Thomas Nast”
Sunday, December 9 – Morris County Morristown and Morris Township Library’s North Jersey History and Genealogy Center and Macculloch Hall present “An Afternoon with Thomas Nast” on Sunday, December 9, 1:30 p.m. Meet at Morristown and Morris Township Library, 1 Miller Rd., Morristown, NJ, 07960,’s Lower Level Meeting Room at 1:30 p.m. for the screening of two half hour length documentaries, The Grand Caricaturama and Villa Fontana . Then join Macculloch Hall’s F.M. Kirby Curator of Collections, Ryan Hyman, and the North Jersey History and Genealogy Center’s, James Lewis, to walk past Nast’s home, Villa Fontana, and on to Macculloch Hall where Ryan will give a tour of Bringing Down the Boss: Thomas Nast Takes on Tweed and Tammany Hall and Macculloch Hall’s latest Christmas exhibit. Please R.S.V.P. to njhgc@jfpl.org . Please dress for the weather and wear comfortable shoes. For more information regarding...