Sussex County Historical Society

William Truran will be providing an illustrated lecture on the history of the Sparta Train Station located near Station Park. Truran will offer the historical perspective on this site and elaborate on the January 6, 2016 Sparta Independent article on the station's current reconstruction, after the 2012 fire. The original 1881 Sparta station was built […]

Chase those winter blues and visit Millbrook Village to see maple syrup or maple sugar being made. The sugar maples are tapped and the sap is flowing. See how the “Mud Season Harvest” is transformed from sap to sweet maple sugar. North America’s Native American Indians taught the colonists how to make maple sugar long […]