October 11 and 12: Somerset County's "Weekend Journey Through The Past"

Please join us for Somerset County's 3rd Annual Weekend Journey Through The Past!

Saturday, October 11 from 10:00AM to 5:00PM

Sunday, October 12 from 12:00PM to 5:00PM

Somerset County's Third Annual Weekend Journey Through the Past is the perfect opportunity for your entire family to feed your curiosity and expand your knowledge by traveling through time and immersing yourselves in the past!

Twenty-five beautifully preserved, historically significant sites will be open and free of charge for you to tour and explore all weekend long! Through the rich tradition of oral history you will get to know many of the properties' former occupants, including very distinguished statesmen and national leaders, and experience what life was like in 18th and 19th century New Jersey, from daily work responsibilities and pleasurable pastimes to the difficult hardships endured during the American Revolution.

Other demonstrations offered at select sites include: period music, craft making, open hearth cooking, musket use, black smithing, military drills, and many more! Please click on the individual site below to see what events and demonstrations each site offers.

PARTICIPATING HISTORIC SITES

Bedensville One-Room Schoolhouse, Skillman (Montgomery)

Boudinot-Southard-Ross Property, Basking Ridge (Bernards)

Brick Academy, Basking Ridge (Bernards)

Codington Farmstead, Warren

First Reformed Church of Rocky Hill

Gen. John Frelinghuysen House/Raritan Public Library, Raritan

Griggstown School House, Griggstown (Franklin)

Kennedy-Martin Stelle Farmstead, Basking Ridge (Bernards)

Kirch-Ford House, Warren

Mount Bethel Meeting House, Warren

Old Dutch Parsonage, Somerville

Old Millstone Forge Blacksmith Shop & Museum, Millstone

Old Presbyterian Graveyard, Bound Brook

Daniel Robert House, Somerville

Rockingham, Kingston (Franklin)

Somerset County Courthouse Green (two sites), Somerville

Somerset County Historic Court House & Lord Memorial Fountain

First Dutch Reformed Church

South Branch School House, Branchburg

Abraham Staats House, South Bound Brook

Andrew Ten Eyck House, Branchburg

U.S. Golf Association Museum, Far Hills

Jacobus Vanderveer House, Bedminster

Van Horne House, Bridgewater

Van Veghten House, Bridgewater

Vermeule Mansion, North Plainfield

Wallace House, Somerville

Washington Rock/Washington Rock State Park, Green Brook

Wyckoff-Garretson House, RECOMMENDED! Join us for the 4th Annual Living History Weekend at Wyckoff-Garretson House, Somerset (Franklin) on South Middlebush Road in Somerset Township

SUGGESTED TOUR ROUTES

These suggested tours include sites grouped logically by area and linked by beautiful, winding, scenic by-ways in hopes of making your journey more pleasurable!

Northern Tour, The Watchung Mountains

Central Tour, The Old York Road

Southern Tour, The Delaware/Raritan Canal