Events

May 24 2023

2023 Haddonfield Skirmish

The Skirmish is Saturday, June 3, 2023 throughout downtown Haddonfield. Join the Historical Society of Haddonfield in commemorating this historic event. Our campus is located at 343 Kings Hwy E, just a few steps down from the Indian King Tavern.

Drop in anytime between 10am to 3pm to take part in:

– Tours of Greenfield Hall

– Colonial games

– Culinary demonstrations

We’re also offering two chances to follow along on a guided Historical Buildings Walking Tour. These will be offered at 10am and 12pm. Please register in advance to reserve a spot.

February 5 2023

Candlelight Dinner, 2023—Women in George Washington’s World

Candlelight Dinners, Events, Uncategorized

Join us for our Annual Candlelight Dinner on Wednesday, March 22, at Il Villaggio restaurant, 211 Haddonfield-Berlin Road, Cherry Hill. Our featured speaker will be George Boudreau, PhD, a cultural historian and expert on the country’s founding era. Dr. Boudreau is a professor and author and the editor of Women in Washington’s World and A Material World: Culture, Society, and the Life of Things in Early Anglo-America, among many other works of history. His talk is titled “Balancing the Story: The Challenge of Telling the Lives of Women in George Washington’s World” For more, see his website.

Cocktails start at 6pm and dinner at 7pm. Dr. Boudreau’s program will begin at 8pm. Tickets ($90 for members, $100 for non-members) include dinner and must be ordered in advance.

Tickets may be purchased at: https://form.jotform.com/230196177123150. Scanning this QR code will take you directly to the form:

QR code for 2023 HSH's Candlelight Dinner

February 4 2023

Preserving Black Haddonfield History (2/22/2023)

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Please join the Historical Society of Haddonfield, as we present C. Adrienne Rhodes and other members of the Preserving Black Haddonfield History Project (PBHHP) discussing their work on recording and preserving Haddonfield’s Black History. This collaboration with the Haddonfield Memorial High School and the Preserving Black Haddonfield Project Organizing Committee, a subgroup of the Haddonfield alumni society, aims to collect and share biographical stories of elder citizens’ experiences in Haddonfield.

Click here to register for this free virtual lecture!

January 5 2023

Garden State: Living Off the Land in Nineteenth-Century New Jersey

Past Events

Sepia-toned 1880s photograph of view from a hill overlooking farmland. On the left and in the middle of the image, one can see rows of small haystacks. Beyond them is pasture and beyond that a farmhouse. From the lower right corner of the photograph, a road runs, separated from the field by a fence and occasional trees. The road follows a diagonal path, along the edge of the fields with the haystacks and pasture to the approximate center of the photo. On the right of the road, there are clusters of trees. — From page 17 of Doug Rauschenberger and Kathy Tassini’s Lost Haddonfield: “This view down Chews Landing Road towards Barrington was probably taken near the center of the present day Oak Avenue in an area then referred to as Goat Hill. Taken about 1886, this photograph shows the agricultural appearance which predominated in the vicinity in the late 19th century.”

Join us for a free virtual program, on January 17th at 7:00pm, for “Garden State: Living Off the Land in 19th Century New Jersey.”

Explore the agricultural history of New Jersey and its profound influence on farming today. This program will use the museum’s extensive collection of farming-related tools to bring to life this key aspect of New Jersey’s history. It also looks at what it was like to live and work on a 19th-century New Jersey farm.

Our presenter, Danielle Crigler, is a 21st-century educator with 8 years of social studies experience in urban and suburban schools. She has her master’s in Curriculum Development and has been the Curator of Education with the Museum of Early Trades & Crafts since 2021.

Early agricultural tools, including scythes and pitchforks, from the HSH museum collection. Photograph courtesy of Mike Underwood. — Early agricultural tools—including scythes and pitchforks—from the HSH museum collection. Photograph courtesy of Mike Underwood.

Ox yokes and collars from the HSH museum collection. Photograph courtesy of Mike Underwood.