Congratulations

CONGRATULATIONS to our trustee Candace Grant on her recent marriage.  Candace will soon be leaving us to join her husband, Dean, in South Dakota. 

Candace has been an ardent supporter and hard worker for the Historical Society for many years. She was instrumental in getting us set up on Facebook (our first foray into current technology) and, of course, has been the designer of our flyers and announcements.  Thanks for all your hard work and support.

                     

Membership Renewal

TIME TO RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP

We hope you have enjoyed our programs

and events throughout 2010.  In order to

continue to provide programming and

mount new exhibits, we need your support.

Renewals are already in the mail, please

respond as soon as possible and, PLEASE,

encourage your friends to join as well.

Send memberships to:

Membership Chair

Boonton Historical Society

210 Main Street

Boonton, NJ 07005

   Individual $20.00              

   Family $25.00             

   Seniors/Students $15.00

   Business/Professional $30.00                                      

   Lifetime $200.00

Boonton's Christmas Parade

                                               COME AND SEE US IN THE PARADE

Boonton’s 17^th. Annual Christmas Parade – Saturday, November 27, 2010.  (Rain/snow date November 28). Starts at 1:00 pm at

Upper Plane Street

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Come and join the parade.  Led by  a Model A Ford and costumed members of the Boonton Historical Society, this year, for the first time, the Society is displaying Boonton’s “The Little Cannon”.

The cannon is a great example of Boonton’s history - it is believed to have been assembled in 1859 by the men of the Boonton Ironworks.

Over the years since then it has been used to announce holidays and celebrations. On July 4, 1865, the cannon sounded when Boonton men were welcomed home from the civil war; again in 1876 when the Soldier’s Monument on

Main Street

was dedicated. The letters B.E.N. painted on the side of the carriage could be the initials of Benjamin Norton who came to Boonton from England in 1830 when the ironworks was established in the Hollow.

The cannon has never been used in combat.

Cablevision will be airing the parade every day for three weeks starting 11/28, at Noon, 3:30 PM, and 8PM.  They are on Channels 78 and 118 for Morris, Passaic, Essex and Bergen. 
 

Halloween at the Museum

We got with the spirit of the day with costumes and candy

Cemetery Tour

CEMETERY TOUR ANOTHER SUCCESS. On a beautiful Fall day, we again welcomed guests at the Greenwood Cemetery to our annual Cemetery Tour.  Featuring famous characters from our town’s past, this year our tour included a congressional medal of honor recipient, a Hollywood screen writer, a US Senator and Thomas Edison’s right hand man, William Meadowcroft..Following the tour, soup “to die for” was served in Boontonware

bowls at the museum.

Pathways of History Museum Tour (Sept. 18 & 19)

Join the Pathways of History Museum Tour on Sept. 18 (10 a.m.-4 p.m.) and Sept. 19 (noon-4 p.m.).
Participating museums include Boonton, Boonton Township, Butler, Kinnelon and Montville Township. Other historical venues include the Miller-Kingsland House, 445 Vreeland Ave., Boonton; the Henry Doremus House, Main Road, Montville; and the Nicholas Vreeland out kitchen, Towaco.
There will be a free musical performance at the Miller-Kingsland house on Saturday, Sept. 18, at 1:30 p.m. and on Sunday, Sept. 19, at 2:30 p.m. In addition, there will be demonstrations of weaving at the Doremus House and Colonial cooking at the out kitchen.