Historic Happenings Blog

Saturday, February 15 -- Middlesex County You are cordially invited to attend a luncheon to honor  George Washington and his 288 th  birthday on Saturday, February 15, 2020, at  1:00 p.m. at the Cranbury Inn , 21 South Main Street, Cranbury, New Jersey ( www.thecranburyinn.com ; 609-655-5595). To reserve a place, please phone Mrs. Elyce M. Jennings by telephone at 732-463-0767 and, as soon as you receive this notice, please mail your check, payable to the Raritan-Millstone Heritage Alliance, for $35.00 per person (including gratitudes) to 851 River Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-0724.  Reservations are required . A delicious luncheon has been planned.  The featured speaker is Mike Norris who will present a program entitled “Meet George Washington.” Through works of art often drawn from area museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Delaware Art Museum, and the New-York Historical Society, see how artists of his time portrayed Washington for...

Saturday, March 16 – Somerset County    On Saturday, March 16 at 10:00 a.m. at the Hillsborough Reformed Church, One Amwell Rd., Hillsborough, the Raritan-Millstone Heritage Alliance will present  “Murder on the Millstone- Somerset County, the Raritan Valley and Manville-Crossroads of the Revolution-1777.”      Historian Robert Mayers, author of  Revolutionary New Jersey-Forgotten Towns and Crossroads of the American Revolution , will relate the critical events in the Somerset County area during the Revolutionary War. The fierce battles of Millstone, Bound Brook and the Short Hills (Plainfield, Scotch Plains), the bloody forage wars in the Raritan Valley when ravenous Redcoats ravaged the countryside and created a reign of terror, the Middlebrook encampments that saved America (Bridgewater and Martinsville), and the entire Continental Army swept through central Jersey on the way to Yorktown. This action all swirled around what is now the Boro...