Lawnside Historical Society

The Lawnside Historical Society was founded in 1990 in an effort to preserve and maintain the Peter Mott House, a farmhouse built in 1845 by a free Black resident of this South Jersey community. Mott, an ordained minister, was active in New Jersey's underground railroad. The Mott House is currently maintained as a museum dedicated to the preservation of the history of this historic African-American community and the work of the underground railroad in the region. Image of Peter Mott House courtesy of Lawnside Historical Society.

The New Jersey Historic Preservation Conference, "Regeneration for a New Generation," will be held June 4, 2009 at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. For more information, download the save the date card. Check this web site for up-to-date information.

The journal New Jersey History, founded as the Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society in 1845 and published under the direction of the Society until 2005, will be re-launched under the editorial direction of historians at the New Jersey Historical Commission, Kean University, and the Society. This peer-reviewed journal will be published twice annually. The editorial staff invites scholars, students, and writers to submit scholarly articles aimed at a non-specialized audience for its forthcoming issues. We welcome papers  from all disciplines-for example, law, literature, political science, anthropology, archaeology, material culture, cultural studies, and social and political history-bearing on any aspects of New Jersey's history. We are also interested in documents, photographs, and other primary source material that could be published with annotations. Click here for further details or email peter.mickulas@sos.state.nj.us

Looking for a quick look at New Jersey's rich history? Here's a version that will give you some of this state's most significant events. Click here: A Brief History of New Jersey, by Professor Paul  G. E. Clemens of Rutgers University

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This month in New Jersey history

January 7, 1912 "Addams Family" cartoonist Charles Addams born in Westfield, NJ

January 11, 1838 Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail give public demonstration of telegraph technology at Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown

January 17, 1911 Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as NJ Governor

January 23, 1898 Paul Robeson born in Princeton