The Van Allen House continues to have its regular open-houses as the Oakland Historical Society continues to help restore the House to stable condition. Our August open-house will be August 20th, 1 PM -4 PM. It is the 100th Anniversary of America entering WWI and we are still commemorating our recent event that let you experience all the aspects of the reasons we joined the fray. The day ended at 4:30 PM with playing of TAPS, and a reading of the names of the fallen from our NW Bergen area during WWI. Please join us Sunday. We will have horse-shoe pitching and croquet games available.
E-mail ohs.inc1966@verizon.net if you have further questions.
Below is info about our comprehensive event that took place on Saturday May 20th, 2017 at the Hermitage in Ho-ho-kus. 10 member organizations of the Northwest Bergen County History Coalition participated. Displays included artifacts, discussions and living history presentations. See the photo below of "President Woodrow Wilson" with suffragist "Harriot Stanton Blatch" and a WWI Red Cross nurse.
E-mail Klaus or Jerri at ohs.inc1966@verizon.net or call us at 201-337-9652.
Be sure to check out the Northwest Bergen History Coalition website for other local open-houses at Northwest Bergen History.org.
E-mail ohs.inc1966@verizon.net if you have further questions.
Below is info about our comprehensive event that took place on Saturday May 20th, 2017 at the Hermitage in Ho-ho-kus. 10 member organizations of the Northwest Bergen County History Coalition participated. Displays included artifacts, discussions and living history presentations. See the photo below of "President Woodrow Wilson" with suffragist "Harriot Stanton Blatch" and a WWI Red Cross nurse.
E-mail Klaus or Jerri at ohs.inc1966@verizon.net or call us at 201-337-9652.
Be sure to check out the Northwest Bergen History Coalition website for other local open-houses at Northwest Bergen History.org.
Ben Franklin and Robert Erskine were 2 personalities of the time that were very active in modernizing life in Colonial New Jersey in many ways. The Franklin Stove was an invention that helped keep every room warm in these cold winter days. His study of electrical power lead to the use of electric stoves we make good use of these days. Joseph Priestly was an active scientist in England who became a good friend of Franklin's. When Priestly's home and laboratory were burned down in England, he escaped to Pennsylvania with his family to continue his studies into chemistry and engineering. The true stories of discoveries and inventions made in Northern New Jersey will surprise you. Please join us to share your stories about famous scientists of New Jersey.
We will be celebrating along with 9 other Northwest Bergen County Historic Sites - Allendale, Glen Rock, Ho-ho-kus, Mahwah, Ramsey, Ridgewood, Upper Saddle River, Wyckoff, and Waldwick. Our Luncheon this year will be held at the Tuxedo Park Country Club in New York on Wednesday, November 1st. Famous former residents of the exclusive club and park will be introduced by Ms. Hempel, the author of a book on the personalities. Please read the attached flyer.
Oakland also has its renowned founders, including Edward Page, one of Oakland's first mayors, wrote many editorials on economics in the New York Times. He also helped his son buy the Sussex Register of Newton and run it for a couple of years, until the son and then the father both met with untimely deaths around 100 years ago. come learn the tragic details.
For 350 years farmers have tended the fields, and enjoyed the natural resources of our rich community. From iron mines and a timber & charcoal industry to a Garden State throughout suburbia, Oakland has been a center for family living and working to survive, and survive well. Come see our collection of early newspapers, as well as our farming and working tool collection from ages past, outdoors and inside. Learn about the political and economic power of the Stream House and Vygeberg Farm.
Learn how the Dutch settlers found out about local sources of iron-ore from the Lenapes back in the 1690's. After the British made the Dutch leave New Amsterdam (New York City), they continued to thrive up in Albany and throughout NY State. NY governor Pieter Schuyler's son Arendt became friendly with local native tribes, and convinced them to show him hematite sources in the Ramapo Mtns. from Pompton Plains up to Sloatsburg and beyond. Sloatsburg is dutch for "borough of furnace smoke-stacks." Pompton Lakes still has the remains of a colonial era stone iron ore furnace in the woods near the lake. A lot of Dutch settlers were very busy making charcoal, building forges and furnances, and creating large quantities of pig iron starting at 1695. The women were busy tending the farms and young families. Want to learn more? Come visit us at the next open house. Watch for open-house signs in front of the Van Allen House. Usually 3rd Sundays in month.
We will be celebrating along with 9 other Northwest Bergen County Historic Sites - Allendale, Glen Rock, Ho-ho-kus, Mahwah, Ramsey, Ridgewood, Upper Saddle River, Wyckoff, and Waldwick. Our Luncheon this year will be held at the Tuxedo Park Country Club in New York on Wednesday, November 1st. Famous former residents of the exclusive club and park will be introduced by Ms. Hempel, the author of a book on the personalities. Please read the attached flyer.
Oakland also has its renowned founders, including Edward Page, one of Oakland's first mayors, wrote many editorials on economics in the New York Times. He also helped his son buy the Sussex Register of Newton and run it for a couple of years, until the son and then the father both met with untimely deaths around 100 years ago. come learn the tragic details.
For 350 years farmers have tended the fields, and enjoyed the natural resources of our rich community. From iron mines and a timber & charcoal industry to a Garden State throughout suburbia, Oakland has been a center for family living and working to survive, and survive well. Come see our collection of early newspapers, as well as our farming and working tool collection from ages past, outdoors and inside. Learn about the political and economic power of the Stream House and Vygeberg Farm.
Learn how the Dutch settlers found out about local sources of iron-ore from the Lenapes back in the 1690's. After the British made the Dutch leave New Amsterdam (New York City), they continued to thrive up in Albany and throughout NY State. NY governor Pieter Schuyler's son Arendt became friendly with local native tribes, and convinced them to show him hematite sources in the Ramapo Mtns. from Pompton Plains up to Sloatsburg and beyond. Sloatsburg is dutch for "borough of furnace smoke-stacks." Pompton Lakes still has the remains of a colonial era stone iron ore furnace in the woods near the lake. A lot of Dutch settlers were very busy making charcoal, building forges and furnances, and creating large quantities of pig iron starting at 1695. The women were busy tending the farms and young families. Want to learn more? Come visit us at the next open house. Watch for open-house signs in front of the Van Allen House. Usually 3rd Sundays in month.
Members of the Oakland Historical Society got to meet with "President Woodrow Wilson" at the Hermitage May 20th 2017 at our History Day event. The re-enactor shared the president's support for the Red Cross aids during WWI, portrayed by Linda Arns, as well as for the suffragists as represented by "Harriot Stanton Blatch", daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, portrayed by Jerri Angermueller.
Harriot actually grew up in near-by Tenafly, New Jersey. She continued her mother's struggle for getting the women's vote in the USA, which became reality after WWI in 1920. Harriot learned about supporting the strong female labor force while she was living with her husband in England. She helped the women brewery workers improve their working conditions, then returned to America to help the silk
factory workers in New Jersey and New York become able to improve theirs. She was responsible for bringing female speakers from England over to the US to support the Women's Land Army. Women wanted to help feed the troops and found much resistance from the government in carrying out this much needed service during WWI. The advances made in Bergen County were presented at the event.
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Harriot actually grew up in near-by Tenafly, New Jersey. She continued her mother's struggle for getting the women's vote in the USA, which became reality after WWI in 1920. Harriot learned about supporting the strong female labor force while she was living with her husband in England. She helped the women brewery workers improve their working conditions, then returned to America to help the silk
factory workers in New Jersey and New York become able to improve theirs. She was responsible for bringing female speakers from England over to the US to support the Women's Land Army. Women wanted to help feed the troops and found much resistance from the government in carrying out this much needed service during WWI. The advances made in Bergen County were presented at the event.
Be sure to visit our Events Page for the latest happenings
