Blog Archives

John Buzby Goes Home!

For the past several years, visitors to the Smith-Cadbury Mansion have noticed the large framed painting of the kind-faced gentleman on the wall in the parlor. The painting came to Moorestown via the Morristown Historical Society when they realized that


Annual Joint Meeting Talk

On January 24, 2017, the Historical Society of Moorestown hosted the Annual Joint Meeting at the Community House with several other Moorestown organizations: the Moorestown Improvement Association (MIA), Save the Environment of Moorestown (STEM), the Pompeston Creek Watershed Association, and


Sarah Franklin Homer Memorial Scholarship

For the fourth year, the Historical Society has awarded a $500.00 scholarship to a Moorestown High School student who has excelled in history or related subjects, and who plans to continue those studies in college. For the last two years


Save the Date!

The Historical Society’s major fundraising event of 2016, An Evening in Mo’Town, will be held at the lovely historic home of Karla & Jim Varrell on Saturday evening September 17th. This is a great opportunity to spend a fun evening


Revolutionary News!

Thanks for the shout out Crossroads of the American Revolution! For those of you unfamiliar with this organization, they are dedicated to connecting the people and places of New Jersey’s rich Revolutionary heritage to inspire community pride, stewardship and civic


Welcome to our newest Trustee!

The Board of Trustees welcomes Elizabeth Rosenthal to the Board! Liz has been helping us organize our maps and she also recently wrote about our latest Speaker Series event. We’re so glad she’s going to stick around for more! Here’s


Speaker Series Grant

The Historical Society of Moorestown is deeply grateful for the generous grant of $2500 made by the Elizabeth Tuttle Fund. It is designated for the support of the Society’s NJ History Speaker Series and will make it possible to offer


Welcome!

Welcome to the Historical Society’s new website! It was constructed using WordPress by Matthew Weiss & Jill Weiss. Take a look around! We hope you find it easy to navigate and full of useful information about what we do at