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History of the Bottling Industry of Central N. J. - 1840 Through Prohibition

         [Sun., March 22, 2020 - 2 pm] -- ON HOLD
             Hopewell Museum
             28 East Broad Street, Hopewell, NJ 08525
             Free and open to the public

Jerry Pevahouse will talk about the local bottling and brewing business. This includes the history of local immigration and the contributions of early German and Irish immigrants, then later Italian, Eastern European and Jewish immigrants. Many became prominent local businessmen. Jerry will also discuss the bottling business which evolved over a hundred-year period from a low tech to a high tech industry.
 
Artist, photographer, and collector Jerry Pevahouse ran a computer consulting company, Cranbury Micro Support, Inc. of Cranbury, NJ from 1990 until 2018. Jerry was a Museum curator for the Cranbury Historical Society, and researched Cranbury’s Civil War history which is now part of the N. J. State Archives reference collection. He is a long-time collector of antique bottles, and has comprehensively researched the history of the bottling industry of Trenton, N. J.
 
Sponsored by the Hopewell Valley Historical Society and The Hopewell Museum. This program is made possible, in part, by a New Jersey Historical Commission history regrant from the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission. (Snow date March 29)
Newsletter Extracts

Series on the Women's Suffrage Movement in Hopewell Valley, by Joseph R. Klett, Executive Director of the New Jersey State Archives, president of The Hopewell Museum, and a life member of the Hopewell Valley Historical Society. The articles were inspired by the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the federal constitution granting women voting equality in the U.S.
  • Women's Suffrage in Hopewell Valley - Part One: 1776 - 1916​ - Fall/Winter 2020 (PDF)
The saga of the Mercer & Somerset Railroad and the Frog War, by Jack Koeppel, former president of the Hopewell Valley Historical Society. Includes a tour along the path of the M&S, pointing out some of the remaining artifacts, and an interview with Isabel Clarkson, whose husband Daniel Clarkson built the section of the M&S that ran though Pennington, and built both the still-existing Pennington and Hopewell stations.
  • Clues from Hopewell Valley’s Long Lost Railroad - Fall 2007 (PDF)
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Maps of Hopewell Township - 1849, 1860, 1875, 1903
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The Mercer County Library system is closed, so our collections hours on Thursdays are on hold as well.

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Local Bottling Industry
Sun. March 22 - 2 pm - Hopewell Museum
Local collector Jerry Pevahouse on the local bottling and brewing business of central New Jersey.

Hopewell Valley Historical Society
Box 371, Pennington, NJ 08534
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  • Local History
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