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It's A Family Affair: Historical Community Works Together

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  • Fall 2020  Boy Scout Eagle Project.  17 year old Derrick Krasnansky is remodeling the porch in front of our beehive oven on the east side of the house to a more colonial period style for his Eagle Scout project.  His project involved  deconstructing the old porch, replacing a shake roof, laying a slate floor, painting etc.   His involvement is a family affair. His older brother remodeled our museum rooms several years ago for an Eagle Scout project.  His dad is our museum curator.  And his deceased grandfather was a long time friend and member of the society loaning the tools on display in our Tool Museum Room.  


  • Spring 2020  Thanks to an estate for a bequest of more than $1000.


  • November 2019  The Society is pleased and proud to announce we have received a $2000 History Partnership Program Grant from The NJ Historical Commission,  which is administered by the Somerset County Cultural and Heritage Commission for 2020.


  • August 2019 - Phase 2 of the manuscript conservation has been funded by The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Jersey. Thank you!  We are eagerly awaiting the completion of the remaining two 18th century indentures and accompanying map by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts in Philadelphia.


  •  June 8 2019 - A consortium of county historical groups including the Somerset County Historical Society, Friends of the Abraham Staats House, Heritage Trail Association, sponsored the 3rd Middlebrook Encampment Seminar.  The event included presentations by several specialists, lunch and opportunity to visit the remains of a redoubt on the Watchung mountain.  The group plans to publish copies of the presentations.  


  • March 2019 -  The Somerset Library  System continued its Common Heritage project to digitize  and record oral histories of county residents this spring.  First release of digital photos and descriptions became available easured objects to a library site and go home with a USB file copy of your items and the satisfaction of preserving your precious family history electronically.

 

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Funding for the Somerset County Historical Society is provided, in part, 

by the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State, through the State/County History Partnership Program Grant and administered by the Somerset County Cultural and Heritage Commission.

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