Historic Happenings Blog

Progressive Dinner 2020 Saturday, April 4, 2020 5:00 PM     9:00 PM Google Calendar     ICS The date for our annual Progressive Dinner has been announced! Saturday, April 4, 2020 5:00 pm • Cocktails, music and auction in the Grist Mill 7:30 pm • Dinner hosted in DRMS member homes TICKETS This wonderful event helps us raise funds to support the preservation and restoration of the historic mill complex, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Guests enjoy cocktails, dinner and live auction items. The fun starts with cocktails at 5:30 p.m. in the Grist Mill, the centerpiece of the complex. During cocktails, patrons can bid on items in the silent and live auctions.

Thursday, March 19 – Hunterdon County Nineteenth-Century New Jersey Photographers: Hunterdon County A Lecture by Gary D. Saretzky at 7:00 p.m., March 19, 2019, at Prallsville Mills, Stockton. Hosted by Artsbridge Of the approximately 3,000 different photographers who were active in New Jersey before 1900, more than 80 lived or worked in Hunterdon County, most of them in Flemington, Lambertville, Clinton, and Frenchtown.  In a slide lecture, Gary D. Saretzky will profile these pioneers, including Gideon C. Angle, Frank Z. Fritz, Edgar Greisamer, and John and Mary Sunderlin. As seen in the slides, these photographers documented the people and places of their times but, in addition, their individual histories provide insight into the social conditions of their era.  Gary D. Saretzky, archivist and photographer, worked as an archivist for more than fifty years at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Educational Testing Service, and the Monmouth Count...

Thursday, March 12 – Hunterdon County Prallsville Mills Speakers Series: Great Historic Properties in NJ at 7pm     STOCKTON – Do you love old historic houses? Do you want to learn more about them? Join Historic Preservation Specialist, Andrea Tingey on Thursday, March 12 at 7pm at Prallsville Mills to explore exceptional historic properties in New Jersey and learn more about what it takes to make the historic register.     Andrea Tingey is a Historic Preservation Specialist 3 who has been with the New Jersey State Historic Preservation Office for 26 years. Currently working as the Survey Program coordinator for the office, she also is involved in the review of National Register nominations. For six years, she coordinated the Certified Local Government program, including grants and surveys. She previously spent 11 years working in the Transportation and Planning Section where the bulk of her workload involved the regulatory review o...

Thursday, February 13 – Hunterdon County Prallsville Mills Speakers Series: Ditching Disposables, at 7pm STOCKTON – In May 2019, the Sustainable Jersey Grants Program awarded the Lambertville Environmental Commission a $20,000 grant, one of just four in the state at that level. The Lambertville Environmental Commission, chaired by resident Liz Magill Peer, sought this grant to support its Ditching Disposables initiative.  The Ditching Disposables project was developed to support the implementation of the city's ordinance limiting the use of single-use plastic bags, plastic straws, polystyrene foam and Styrofoam containers by businesses in the City of Lambertville passed in September 2018. The goal of the Ditching Disposables initiative is to assist residents in the adoption of this ordinance via education, communication, workshops, and certifications. Come learn more about this initiative from Liz Magill Peer directly on Thursday, February 13, 2020, at 7pm at Prallsville Mills. ...

Sunday, December 1 – Hunterdon County Prallsville Mills Holiday Party Sunday, December 1st 2:30 to 6:00 p.m. Lots of Mingle, Jingle, Food & Drink Welcome the holiday season at the Prallsville Mills! This free event will get you and your family in the holiday spirit with this lineup of fun happenings: Story Time with Anna P. Wyman: 2:30 - 3:00 p.m. Horse & Carriage Rides: 3:00- 4:30 p.m. Santa Arrives - 5:00 p.m. Tree Lighting Ceremony - 5:30 p.m. https://www.prallsvillemills.org/calendar/prallsville-mills-holiday-party Buy a Poinsettia for $30 You can help us decorate the Mill for the Annual Holiday Party by purchasing a poinsettia plant.  The best part? You can take it home with you after the party on December 1st. https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E114251&id=62 You can help us decorate the mill for our holiday party by purchasing a poinsettia! The money raised from the sale will be used for holiday decorating. Best of all, you can take the ...

Sunday, September 15 – Hunterdon County Artsbridge Presents: Annual Clothesline Art Sale Sunday, Sept. 15, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. (Rain or Shine)     "Fine Art for the Frugal Collector" is returning to the Prallsville Mills . This popular art sale is open for registration. All Artsbridge members (join for a small fee) are invited to participate. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis and closes at 25 artists on September 2. For more information, please call 609.238.2155. info@prallsvillemills.org  •  609-397-3586

June 9-23 -- Hunterdon County     New Jersey Equine Artists' Association Show Opening Reception, Sunday, June 9, 2 to 4 p.m. Join us on June 9th for the opening of "NJEAA: Art of the Horse," a unique collection of equine art by local and regional artists. Exhibit on Display June 9-23, 2019 Thursdays-Sundays,11 a.m. to 4 p.m., or by appointment. Don’t miss this unique collection of equine art by local and regional artists. “NJEAA Art of the Horse,” will open with a public reception and an opportunity to meet the artists on Sunday, June 9th, from 2 to 4 p.m., at the Prallsville Mills.     Noted author, Loren Spiotta-DiMare of Tewksbury, New Jersey, will discuss her latest book, Sergeant Reckless: Hero War Horse, which relays the true story of an amazing sorrel mare who served alongside the Marines in the Korean War.      A door prize of a framed equine print by award-winning artist and group founding member, Barbara Hornstra, will be award...

Thursday, April 25 – Hunterdon County Prallsville Mills Speakers Series: New Jersey Black Bears with Tom Sheppard Thursday, April 25th at 6:30pm      Black Bear have made their presence felt all across the state. Over 15 years have passed since Hunterdon County was declared Black Bear country in 1999. Join Tom Sheppard, Chief Park Naturalist, to learn the basic ecology on Black Bears, how to reduce your chances a negative encounter with these animals as well as the future pressures that Black Bear in New Jersey face.  This event will be Thursday, April 25th, at 6:30 pm at Prallsville Mills in Stockton.     Sheppard has been with the county for almost 20 years where he is the Chief Park Naturalist.  Along with all his duties, he is an avid birder and has and is birding around the country. He just sat his 709 th  species in the country over the Christmas holiday in Maine. His family also dates back to the earl...

Tuesday, April 16 – Hunterdon County Prallsville Mills Speakers Series: The Foundation of Stockton: Mark Zdepski at 7PM Stockton Stonecutters STOCKTON –  The quarrying of Triassic-aged brown sandstones along the Delaware River began in the Colonial period, but during and after the construction of the canals in the 1830s the industry boomed. Stockton is the location of the geological type-section that give this sandstone the name “Stockton Sandstone” in geologic reports. T he quarry products were at first used locally, but with time and improved transportation methods, broader markets were reached. Stockton area quarries provided foundation stone for the State House and for the Pennsylvania Railroad viaduct in New Brunswick, NJ. Come learn more about the very bedrock of our community and how it reached far and wide to build the nation at the turn of the last century on Tuesday, April 16th at 7PM at Prallsville Mills, 33 Risler Street, Stockton, NJ. The talk will be pr...

Friday, January 11 – Hunterdon County Prallsville Mills Speakers Series: New Jersey’s Colonial Architecture Told in 100 Buildings Friday, January 11th at 7PM STOCKTON – In this the most crowded and developed state in the union, a substantial number of buildings remain from our colonial past, including the Royal Governor’s Mansion in Perth Amboy, the still functioning Black Horse Inn in Mendham, the meetinghouse style Fairfield Presbyterian Church in Salem County, to Nassau Hall on the grounds of Princeton University, to Washington’s Headquarters in Morristown, to the Sandy Hook, Lighthouse, the oldest lighthouse in the country.    And the past isn’t really dead. Several of our contemporary architectural styles can trace their roots to the Colonial Era.    Sandwiched between Philadelphia and New York City, Benjamin Franklin’s proverbial barrel tapped at both ends, New Jersey often doesn’t get due credit for its contributions to colonial and early American li...