Spring Encampment
Morristown National Historical Park - Jockey Hollow Unit 580 Tempe Wick Road, Morristown, NJJockey Hollow will come to life when reenactors from across the northeast arrive for the Park's Spring Encampment. The special event focuses on the life and times of soldiers and civilians during the Revolutionary War. It's an event full of activities for the whole family.
Spring Encampment
Morristown National Historical Park - Jockey Hollow Unit 580 Tempe Wick Road, Morristown, NJJockey Hollow will come to life when reenactors from across the northeast arrive for the Park's Spring Encampment. The special event focuses on the life and times of soldiers and civilians during the Revolutionary War. It's an event full of activities for the whole family.
Living History Visit with Phillis Wheatley
Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage 71 Somerset Street, Somerville, NJ250 years ago in the spring of 1773 Phillis Wheatley traveled from America to England to publish Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, making her the first published African-American poet and the first published African-American female writer. Phillis Wheatley’s life began in West Africa. Taken from her home on a slave ship when she […]
Living History Visit with Sojourner Truth
Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage 71 Somerset Street, Somerville, NJBorn Isabella Baumfree, Sojourner Truth was enslaved for nearly the first decade of her life by the Hardenbergh family of New York, relatives of Rev. Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh of New Jersey’s Old Dutch Parsonage. The slave from a small town north of New York City changed hands several times, sold by one brutal owner to […]
