Wallace House ODP Association

Born in Somerville on February 29, 1824, Arabella Wharton Griffith Barlow is a descendent of both the Wallace and Hardenburgh families. She maintained a lifelong connection to the community even after she was raised in Burlington by her maternal cousin Eliza Wallace. Intelligent, independent, and well educated, Arabella later moved to New York City, where she met and married Francis Channing Barlow in April 1861, just as the Civil War began. Francis would become a prominent Union general,...

If you have driven by the Wallace House during the past year you have seen the house with its scaffolding and protective covering. From roof to foundation, the 250 year old house has been undergoing a comprehensive exterior renovation. The roof has been replaced, the foundation fortified and the chimneys reconstructed. The wood siding was brought to a workshop for its paint to be removed then three coats of linseed oil paint were applied. The siding will get additional coats of linseed...

Connor Dunham, undergraduate student at Clark University, is to be congratulated on receiving the $5,000 Middlebrook Symposium Prize for original research on the Revolutionary War in New Jersey. His essay, “The Revolutionary War in New Jersey Through the Eyes of Frederick Frelinghuysen,” focuses on militiaman and legislator Frederick Frelinghuysen, born at the Old Dutch Parsonage, to better understand the lives of New Jerseyans before and during the American Revolutionary War. His winning...