Try your hand at some family-friendly colonial crafts! Make a hornbook and a quill pen and practice writing with ink! Paint a top or make marbles from clay to take home! Tie up your own sachets or potpourri! And of course, have fun playing with colonial games and toys! This program is designed for students […]
Visit Bergen County’s premier historic site this summer: Historic New Bridge Landing! The Bergen County Historical Society will be having its annual Summertime Social on Sunday August 11th 1 pm- 4:30 pm 1201 Main Street, River Edge NJ. Staffed by knowledgeable BCHS interpreters, all 3 Jersey- Dutch sandstone houses including the state historic 1752 Steuben […]
It's time to explore Liberty Hall's 200-year-old home and grounds with special access to spaces not accessible to the public. Join New York Adventure Club for a private behind-the-scenes tour of Liberty Hall Museum. Led by a Liberty Hall guide, our unique journey through this mansion and grounds which include: a behind-the-scenes look at the servant’s areas in the home, not open […]
250 years ago even before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War “the whole of New Jersey” was a “campaign” for John Adams. The delegate from Massachusetts Bay for crossed New Jersey over four days from Friday, August 26 to Monday, August 29, 1774 on the way to the First Continental Congress at Carpenters Hall in […]
Experience music through the lens of history and nature! Learn how music has changed over time through songs and instruments from the past. Explore the grounds at Liberty Hall and see how composers and artists have been inspired by the world around them. 'Then become a musician by making and decorating your own instruments! This program is […]
Join us at Liberty Hall Museum for a Teacher's Only Behind the Scenes tour of Liberty Hall, exclusively for pre-K through 12th grade educators (and your guests)! Enjoy small bites and drinks and take a guided tour of the historic home and Carriage House, exploring places rarely visited by guests (and never visited on field trips) including our servant's quarters, […]
Promenade our property under the backdrop of a crimson sky and the setting summer sun, a perfect Sunset Stroll. Program Fee: $10.00 per ticket, free for museum members Liberty Hall Museum & Arboretum Contact: [email protected] or 908-527-0400
Every Wednesday this summer, we will offer a boxed lunch add-on for our 11 a.m. guided house or garden tour. The boxed lunch will be served at noon following the tour. Lunch will be served at a picnic table in our lovely garden, which has been reserved just for you! Reservations for the boxed lunch […]
Re-enactment event held at The Trent House Museum Washington's and Rochambeau's Armies meet the Town in Trenton August 1781 Other activities going on all day from 10 am to 4 pm include: Camp setups of Le Regiment Bourbonnais (with demonstrations of card and dice games) and 1st Rhode Island (with display of equipment) Storytelling of […]
12-2PM in the Anne Louise Davis Room In December 1776, local Patriot Cornelius Vermeule allowed the construction of a militia post and fort on his plantation – the largest in the area. This encampment was key to protecting the southeastern flank of Washington’s Middlebrook encampment and played a noteworthy role in the 1777 Battle of […]
250 years ago even before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War “the whole of New Jersey” was a “campaign” for John Adams. The delegate from Massachusetts Bay for crossed New Jersey over four days from Friday, August 26 to Monday, August 29, 1774 on the way to the First Continental Congress at Carpenters Hall in […]
