Boonton Historical Society News Bulletin Sept. 2012

Boonton Historical Society  

          & Museum

      at the Dr. John Taylor House                   

                           210 Main Street, Boonton, N.J. 

                                       973-402-8840

                                                  Boontonhistory@Boonton.org

_______________________________________________________ September, 2012

September is turning out to be a busy month at the Boonton Historical Society.

Friday September 7

4:00 – 9:00 pm

We will again be celebrating First Friday with refreshments and bargains in our gift shops. Passport to Savings on Main Street continues.

Grace Kobilarcik greets our guests at our First Friday event..

Saturday, September 15

10:00 am

Walking Tour of Historic Main Street

Meets at Canalside Overlook (Main &        

West Main St. intersection)

The tour will discuss the commerce and business of Boonton, as well as the history and architecture of the buildings.  The tour will be led by Lloyd Charlton whose family ran a grocery store on Main Street.

Suggested donation for non-members is $5.00. (Includes discounts for local stores and eateries on Main Street).

Sunday September 16

10:00 – 5:00 pm

We will have a table at the Boonton Transportation Heritage Festival to be held at the Railroad Restoration yard on

Morris Avenue. Our table will be in the Dance Studio building.

See the largest electric locomotives that ever operated in New Jersey.  They were the famous 1930’s GG-1 giants of the rails that traveled over 100mph between NY City and

Washington DC on some of the world’s most famous trains.

See a variety of old diesel locomotives, passenger cars, and freight cars.  Also, in the early 1900s railroad freight house will be

exhibits and exciting multi-media presentations on NJ’s railroads by former railroad employees who reveal what it was like working on the railroad more than half a century ago as well as local railroad historians. 

A special feature will be presentations by NJ Transit on their Operation Lifesaver program for kids and adults.

Want More?   There will be antique trucks and fire engines, old buses from NJ’s Public Service bus company, and several vintage military vehicles on display adjacent to the museum.

This facility is closed to the public and the last time it was open for one day public event was three years ago!  The event is held  rain or shine.

Sunday September 23

12:00 – 4:00 pm

New Exhibit Opening

We will open our new exhibit, entitled Roots, Rocks, Rust: The Visionary Landscapes of JSL Greentree. Join us for a Member’s Preview at 12:00 pm.

Saturday, September 29

4:00 pm

Cemetery Tour

It’s time for our annual Cemetery Tour at Greenwood Cemetery.  The tour starts at the cemetery gates at 4:00 pm, immediately followed by soup to die for at the museum .

This year, the Society will highlight the stories and contributions of some of its proponents of alternative approaches to health and healing. Dr. Elizabeth Geiger (1900-2003), a doctor of naturopathy, had

a practice in New York City and opened her home on Fanny Road as a health resort; Dr. Marietta Crane Woodruff (1861-1912) served the people of Boonton as a general practitioner and obstetrician for over 38 years; She also had an interest in alternative therapy and served as vice president of the NJ State Homeopathic society.  Rev. Henry B. Wilson (1870-1923), in addition to being pastor of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Boonton, was a journalist, author and educator. He started the Society of the Nazarene with a goal "to teach, preach and

heal” and a  purpose to deepen spiritual life and impart strength and health to body and soul by prayer.

Donation for tour $5.00

Soup to Die for (including bowl) $5.00

September 30 is BOONTON DAY. 

12:00 – 4:00 pm

Come and visit us at or booth on Main Street and join in the festivities of another day of celebrations in our town.

Boonton Day 2011

Visitors to Harold Johnson’s walking tour of the Historic Residential District .

Saturday October 20, Sunday October 21

THE PATHWAYS OF HISTORY MUSEUM TOUR: Experience local history in person when thirteen historic homes and museums open their doors and present exhibits, re-enactments, costumed hosts and refreshments 10:00-4:00pm Saturday and Noon – 4:00pm Sunday.  Admission is free. 

For more details and location information visit www.Boonton.org.

Special Pathways Event in Boonton at the Miller-Kingsland House.

33d New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment Company G ~ 2nd Zouaves

         A Civil War re-enactment group.

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                    c/o Eric Wallin

            Membership Chairperson

465 Hill Street, Boonton, NJ 07005

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