Proprietary House Afternoon Tea
Proprietary House 149 Kearny Avenue, Perth Amboy, New JerseyOn Sundays, June 16th & June 30th, Afternoon Tea will be served starting at 1 PM. $20 per person / Members $15. Advance reservations are suggested.
On Sundays, June 16th & June 30th, Afternoon Tea will be served starting at 1 PM. $20 per person / Members $15. Advance reservations are suggested.
On Sundays, June 16th & June 30th, Proprietary House will be open from 1 to 4 PM. Museum Tours available at 1 PM, 2 PM and 3 PM. Admission: Members - Free […]
Join a dramatic reading with historical discussion of New Jersey’s “Declarations of Independence” featuring documents of the Brunswick Convention of 1774, electing delegates from New Jersey to the First Continental […]
On Thursday, July 4th at 12 Noon, Proprietary House will host an Independence Day open house reception. Brief comments by local dignitaries. Light refreshments. Gift Shop. Followed by a patriotic procession, […]
Morristown National Historical Park will celebrate our Declaration of Independence with July Fourth activities beginning at noon on the park’s Washington’s Headquarters grounds, 30 Washington Place. The event will feature a variety […]
Dressed in colonial clothing and performing rousing period songs and stories, Matthew Dodd will take you back in time to the days of the American Revolution. Mr. Dodd sings and […]
For Bastille Day follow the Marquis de Lafayette through New Jersey as aide to George Washington in the Revolutionary War and as the Nation’s Guest during his Farewell Tour of […]
Stan Saperstein will perform a 45-minute one-man presentation as Francis Hopkinson, New Jersey Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Hopkinson, a member of the congressional Marine Committee, claimed that he […]
Meet George Washington and William Lee with three dragoons of the Continental Army all on horseback at Washington’s Headquarters at Wallace House State Historic Site. Renowned reenactor John Koopman portrays Gen. Washington in the summer of 1779. As the Continental Army’s Middlebrook Cantonment in Somerset County concludes, Gen. Washington prepares to depart headquarters at the Wallace House and tells stories of the Revolutionary War in New […]
Visit Revolutionary-era New Jersey at Somerset County’s living history event for the whole family! Explore a pop-up encampment, meet General George Washington and his valet, William “Billy” Lee, on horseback, see colonial artisans in action, and more on the Courthouse Green in downtown Somerville! Learn More: https://www.co.somerset.nj.us/government/public-works/cultural-heritage/history-on-the-green
250 years ago in July 1774 Somerset County convened a committee of correspondence and 71 delegates from 11 of New Jersey’s 13 counties gathered in New Brunswick to appoint delegates from New Jersey to the First Continental Congress. Visit Old Dutch Parsonage, historic home of two delegates to New Jersey’s Provincial Congress, for an open house discussing […]