- Stand where General George Washington stood after he crossed the Delaware
- Learn about farming in Hunterdon County
- Play Lenape style games
- Search census & cemetery records
- Enjoy the pirate songs and antics of the Sea Dogs
- Encounter a British Army Regiment
- Witness the evolution of NJ’s cranberry harvesting
- Experience the BOOM of cannon fire
- Get hooked on rug hooking
- Meet a Jersey “Yahoo” with the 23rd Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- Learn about agriculture’s place in a green belt
- Enjoy the 19th century sound of Balladeer Linda Russell
- Be tempted by an incredible selection of antique automobiles
- Learn about benefits for US Military Veterans and their family members
- Engage the senses with Dutch Oven cooking
- Try to “reinvent” one of Thomas Edison’s inventions
- Research your family’s history
- Learn how massive coastal guns protected our mainland in wartime
- Explore a Revolutionary War encampment
- Use a drop spindle to make yarn
- Learn about grist milling at Historic Walnford
- Meet Mary Hayes McCauley*, aka Molly Pitcher
- Participate in historic games
- Try to tat bobbin lace
- Explore the rare Revolutionary War artifacts in the Visitor Center Museum
- Examine exhibits from the state’s historical societies & museums
- Watch carpenters make 19th century children’s toys
- Join living history demonstrations
- Learn about the nurses of the Vietnam war
- Put your head-in-a-hole and get your photo taken
- Take a boat ride on the Delaware & Raritan (D&R) Canal
- Listen to military bugle calls
- Watch a 19th century Baseball game
- Return to the days of Canal Boat Captain Cappy Hummel*
- Explore an 18th century kitchen garden
- Engage President Lincoln in conversation
- “Join” the Union Army with the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
- Take your picture with Revolutionary War & Civil War soldiers
- Survey an exhibit on NJ’s transportation history
- Observe demonstrations of period domestic, leisure & school activities
- Tour the Johnson Ferry House
- Talk to the designer of the American Flag - Francis Hopkinson*
- Learn about 18th century medical practices with the Old Barracks
- Meet Revolutionary War surgeon Ludwig Wirtenberg*
- Get taken by Phydeaux’s Flying Flea Circus & Wahoo Medicine Show
- Watch a live-action depiction of the First Battle Trenton in miniature
- Join the Monmouth County Militia for a wooden musket drill
- See a display of historic fire apparatus
- Meet a 18th century Palatine Family*
- Explore 330+ years of publically accessible records at the State Archives
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- Observe a WWII GI medical field aid station in action
- Get ready to celebrate Hunterdon County’s 300th anniversary in 2014
- Watch a 19th century demonstration of wet-plate photography
- Learn about the most common 18th century river transport – a battoe
- Listen to the sweet sounds of a dulcimer
- See artifacts once used by Thomas Edison
- Wear a water yoke
- Master the task of corn shelling
- Find out why NJ is the “Crossroads of the Revolution”
- Discover the history of Trenton, our state capitol
- Receive Professional Development Credit for NJ school teachers
- Savor the aromas of Quaker cooking
- Try your hand at calligraphy and writing with a quill pen
- Ask Rev. Jonathan Edwards* and his wife Sarah* about the Great Awakening
- Listen to the 18th century tales of Mrs. Phoebe Woolley*
- Discuss colonial politics with Benjamin Franklin*
- Enjoy the 18th century music of the Practitioners of Musick
- Examine the ongoing research of the Ocean County Historical Society
- Meet members of NJ’s oldest English congregation: Elizabeth’s First Presbyterian Church
- Try your hand at gravestone rubbings (mock gravestone).
- Investigate the paranormal with the Friends of White Hill Mansion
- “Ask Granny” about Genealogy and Hudson County
- Try your hand at an interactive woodworking demonstration
- Meet Elizabeth White*, the woman who tamed the wild blueberry
- Dance with the Tricorne Dance Ensemble
- Enjoy a family picnic
- Hear Sojourner Truth* tell of slavery in the Northern states
- Take a ride in a horse-drawn hay wagon ($5/ride)
- Learn about organic farming practices of the past
- See a display of horse-drawn farm equipment
- Meet the Howell Farm chicken
- Watch old engines work with Delaware Valley Old Time Power & Equipment Assoc.
- Earn advancement requirements for Boy Scouts & Girl Scouts
- Get your hands on Fort Mott’s 20th century military equipment
- Meet George Washington*
- Plow a furrow & experience horse-power first hand
- Get an antique appraised by an Associated Antique Dealers of NJ member ($5/item)
- Discover four centuries of New Jersey's history in one place
- Be tempted by the aroma of English Hearth Cooking
- Find out how some of New Jersey’s famous streets got their names
- Learn about the conservation process of historic textiles
- Milk a wooden cow
- Observe the detection of “mines” by World War II re-enactors
- See George Washington’s actual signature
- Put out a “house-a-fire”
- Try your hand at spinning wool
- Answer New Jersey trivia with the Historical Society of Princeton
- Learn about Titusville as a 18th & 19th century transportation center
- Purchase a book on NJ’s history
- See a log transformed into a wooden hayfork
- Speak with Walt Whitman*, the “Good Grey Poet” about his Civil War experiences
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