The latest from the Sussex County Historical Society Facebook page…
Photographers Eye: Van Kirk Homestead Weekend Events Sussex County Historica Society Photos of today's flag retirement ceremony. Eight hundred pounds of flags were retired. One Room School House Discussion One Room School House Discussion
Sunday July 23th 1:00-4:00 pm
336 Main Street Sparta, NJ 07871
A unique collaboration and exhibits of
the photography of the Van Kirk Homestead
by the members of Sparta Camera
Club. Clarke Warren, of the Sparta Camera Club will give a presentation on the Art of Photography. The exhibit will also be open on Sunday
July 23, (1-4 pm), Sunday August 13, (1-4 pm), Sunday
August 27 (1-4 pm).
Waterloo Village
Saturday July 22 10am-4 pm
525 Waterloo Road
Byram, NJ 07874
Parking $5.00
Experience life on the Morris Canal at Waterloo Village’s 11th
annual Waterloo Canal Day Festival June 24 (rain date 6/25), and on Canal Days two Saturdays a month through October.Enjoy music,
building tours, boat rides, exhibits, more, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. See a real canal boat, a woodworker, a blacksmith, and a working grain mill. Canal Society of NJ volunteers will be on hand for interactive experiences. More info at
http://canalsocietynj.org or macgraphics1@verizon.net or 973-292-2755.
Sussex County Historical Society
Talk on the history of school in Sussex County that was scheduled for Sunday July 23d has been cancelled.
Open House
Sunday, July 23 1:00- 4:00 pm
Foster Armstrong House and the Nelden Roberts School House
320 River Road Montague, New Jersey
Photographers Eye: Van Kirk Homestead
Sunday July 23th 1:00-4:00 pm
336 Main Street Sparta, NJ 07871
A unique collaboration and exhibits of
the photography of the Van Kirk Homestead
by the members of Sparta Camera
Club. Clarke Warren, of the Sparta Camera Club will give a presentation on the Art of Photography. The exhibit will also be open on Sunday
July 23, (1-4 pm), Sunday August 13, (1-4 pm), Sunday
August 27 (1-4 pm).
Waterloo Village
Saturday July 22 10am-4 pm
525 Waterloo Road
Byram, NJ 07874
Parking $5.00
Experience life on the Morris Canal at Waterloo Village’s 11th
annual Waterloo Canal Day Festival June 24 (rain date 6/25), and on Canal Days two Saturdays a month through October.Enjoy music,
building tours, boat rides, exhibits, more, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. See a real canal boat, a woodworker, a blacksmith, and a working grain mill. Canal Society of NJ volunteers will be on hand for interactive experiences. More info at
http://canalsocietynj.org or macgraphics1@verizon.net or 973-292-2755.
Sussex County Historical Society
Talk on the history of school in Sussex County that was scheduled for Sunday July 23d has been cancelled.
Open House
Sunday, July 23 1:00- 4:00 pm
Foster Armrstrong House and the Nelden Roberts School House
320 River Road Montague, New Jersey
Talk on the history of school in Sussex County that was scheduled for Sunday July 23d has been cancelled.
Sunday July 9th 1:30
First Baptist Church in Newton (110 Main Street, Newton).
Join us for a discussion of one room school houses by a panel of people who attended these schools.
One Room School Houses
Sunday July 9th 1:30
First Baptist Church in Newton (110 Main Street, Newton).
Join us for a discussion of one room school houses by a panel of people who attended these schools.
The latest from the Sussex County History Alliance’s Facebook page…
One night during the last show at Cornerstone Playhouse at the Historic Crescent Theatre, a lady came up to Margie Holowach, who was working the ticket booth and is on the board of directors of Cornerstone Playhouse and said that she had a copy of the opening night playbill that her grandmother had given her years and years ago. She said that we could have it as long as it never left the theatre. We of course agreed and a few weeks later she showed up with it in an envelope, fraying and not doing well after all of these years. I wish that I knew the lady's name so I could thank her personally but she didn't leave it. But it was together and she gave it to us and we will be having it mounted in a frame and hung at the theatre and it will grace all of the future Cornerstone Playhouse shows and act as a reminder that the arts and Sussex Borough go hand in hand. I thought that you would like a peek at it. On Monday, July 24, 2017 it will be one hundred years old. SUSSEX BOROUGH — The Crescent Theatre in Sussex Borough, home of Cornerstone Playhouse, got a little sprucing up just in time for the approaching 100th anniversary — Monday, July 24.The plywood discs that covered the third floor holes where white louvers have long been an eyesore on the building hav... Join us for a piece of 100th anniversary cake at Deckertown Commons Park on Saturday July 22, 2017 starting at 12PM thru 3PM. Come by and enjoy a piece of cake to celebrate the 100th anniversary and to chat about the theatre and it history.
Crescent Theatre gets new windows for its 100th anniversary | Vernon NJ | Entertainment
Have A Piece Of Anniversary Cake
