Sussex County Historical Society

History Alliance Meeting w/ Parker Space
2016-03-29 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Crescent Theatre, 74 Main Street, Sussex, NJ, 07461, United States
Please join the Sussex County History Alliance, under the new leadership of Mario Poggi, on Tuesday March 29, 2016 at 7P for our quarterly meeting. It will be at the Crescent Theatre at 74 Main Street, Sussex Borough, NJ. All are welcome as we welcome our guest speaker, Assemblyman Parker Space, owner of Space Farms in Beemerville. He will speak about how to use tourism to attract visitors to your Historic Society’s location and town, ways to grow your Historic Society by making it appealing to a younger membership base and tips on how he keeps Space Farms successful. We look forward to seeing you.
Please RSVP to, sussexcountyhs@gmail.com

SCHS Trustee Meeting
2016-03-28 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Hill Memorial, 82 Main Street, Newton, NJ, 07860, United States
The monthly meeting of the Sussex County Historical Society’s board of trustees. The meeting is open to the public and starts promptly at 7PM.

Maple Sugaring at Millbrook Village
2016-03-12 10:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Millbrook Village, Old Mine Road & Millbrook Flatbrook Road, Hardwick, NJ, 07825, United States
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 before the first European honey bees were brought to the new world or the first sugar cane or sorghum was planted in the South. A truly North American tradition and an early necessity and industry, maple sugaring will be demonstrated as it was done years ago, along with other activities.

Bill Truran: The Sparta Railroad Station
2016-03-10 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Sparta Ambulance Building, 14 Sparta Avenue, Sparta, NJ, 07871, United States
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 according to a standard design used in all of the New York Susquehanna & Western depots — one of 15 built in Sussex County by the railroad. It still features a very rare example of a surviving water tower.
