Historic Happenings Blog

Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society Organizes Cemetery Restoration Project Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society Organizes  Cemetery Restoration Project For generations, the Vineland Training School served as home for young people who did not quite fit into the outside world, according to the standards of the day. The school served as their world, where they lived and ultimately died, their remains buried in a small cemetery located on the grounds that was later abandoned to the elements. On May 14, the Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society, working in cooperation with Elwyn, Inc., the current owners of the property, will begin supervising a restoration project of the abandoned cemetery. Approximately 92 former residents of the Training School, who lived there between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, are buried at the site. We can’t thank Richard Berry, the site’s executive director, and his staff enough for giving us this opportunity,” said Pat...

Saturday, April 13 – Cumberland County For a good time call . . . the Vineland Historical Society?   Disorderly houses, brothels, houses of ill-repute...no matter how many different names they had, such places primarily serve one purpose—and such establishments flourished in Vineland between the mid-19th and early years of the 20th century. Brittney Ingersoll, a curator with the Cumberland County Historical Society, will offer a presentation on “A History of Vineland’s Brothels,” at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 13, at the Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society, 108 S. Seventh St., Vineland. Ingersoll received her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in American history from Rutgers University, where she was one of the co-founders of the Graduate History Club. In recent years, she has extensively researched this little-known area of local history. “Vineland was a thriving community in the early days of the settlement but, like all towns, it had its share of criminal activity,” ...