Programs
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Hopewell Valley Historical Society regularly sponsors community programs on local history, often in partnership with the Hopewell Museum and the Pennington Library. These programs typically are free and open to the public.
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Note on Zoom Internet Webinars: These upcoming programs are presented as online webinars, using the Zoom video conferencing application. You can use Zoom to view these presentations live on a computer, or on a mobile tablet or even a smartphone. (You also can use Zoom for videoconferencing, to use a camera with your device to send your own video and audio, but you don't need these features just to view the presentations.) See Using Zoom on the Pennington Library site for more information on setting up Zoom.
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Historical Hopewell Farmhouses:
18th Century "Cow and the Calf" Farmhouses and Kitchens
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Fri., Nov. 20, 2020 - 7:30 pm ET
Internet Webinar via Zoom Registration Required - To Be Announced Traveling through Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1817, diarist William Cobbett remarked how the farmhouses consisted of a “considerable large and very neat house… and of a small house, which seems to have been tacked on to the large one; and the proportion they bear to each other… is as nearly as possible the proportion of size between a cow and her calf.” He might have been describing anywhere in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Using Hopewell Township as a case study, and relying on buildings as evidence, this talk explores how the traditional rural New Jersey farmhouse underwent a spatial and functional transformation between 1750 and 1820. Two-story farmhouses with attached one-story kitchen wings on the gable end emerged as the regional house type of choice, and was both the product of tradition and a harbinger of change. What were the first vernacular houses like in Hopewell? How did they evolve and why? What does the “cow and calf” tell us about the evolving character of New Jersey’s agrarian landscape at the turn of the Nineteenth Century? Philip A. Hayden is Principal Senior Architectural Historian at Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm based in Cranbury, New Jersey specializing in archaeology, historic preservation, and cultural resources regulatory compliance across the northeast. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Connecticut College with a duel major in American History and Historic Preservation and his Master’s degree from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture and the University of Delaware. Mr. Hayden has held curatorial and administrative positions with the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, the Historical Society of Princeton, the New Jersey Historical Society, and the New Jersey State House. His specialties range from eighteenth and nineteenth-century framing practices to twentieth-century railroad history. A resident of Rocky Hill for most of his life, Mr. Hayden is now based in Annapolis, Maryland. Co-sponsored by the Hopewell Valley Historical Society and The Hopewell Museum, and made possible in part by a New Jersey Historical Commission history regrant from the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission. |
Henry Phillips House
(formerly the Birum property)
Philip A. Hayden
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Contribute to the Hopewell Valley COVID-19 Time Capsule
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We’re living through a moment in history that appears to have the potential to rewrite our politics, our economy, and our society.
Years from now, we will be retelling the stories of this pandemic and how it impacted our families and communities. The Hopewell Valley Regional School District, Hopewell Valley Historical Society and Hopewell Museum would like to preserve this history to show how the Hopewell Valley community came together in a time when it seemed like the world was falling apart. Contributing your own oral history and primary sources to the time capsule will enable you to share your stories with future generations and preserve this moment in history. Visit the Hopewell Valley COVID-19 Time Capsule Project Download flyer (PDF) for more information |
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