Wallace House ODP Association

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...

The Heritage Trail Association and the Middlebrook Consortium invite researchers and history buffs to compete for a $5,000 prize for original research on New Jersey’s Revolutionary War history. The focus is the Middlebrook Encampments—where the Continental Army camped in Somerset County during the winters of 1777 and 1778–79, including sites in Washington Valley, Pluckemin, and […]