The Link

The Link Newsletter

The Link is a the newsletter of the Raritan-Millstone Heritage Alliance and is issued four times per year. Copies are mailed to all due-paying members of the Alliance. The Link aims to show the history and significance of the sites in the alliance, promote upcoming events for our organization as well as for related heritage groups, provide a venue for publishing original research, and keep readers information about preservation issues. The editorial staff of The Link are always interested in submissions of articles to be considered for inclusion.

Latest Issue!

Many of the house museums in the Raritan-Millstone river valley region bear the names of the many Dutch families that settled in the New Jersey midlands. RMHA President Donald J. Peck gives a fascinating summary of their influence in this issue, based on a speech he gave for the Princeton Agricultural Society, June 22, 2023, at Suydam Farm.

Author and RMHA board member Brian Armstrong describes his 2019 book, “The Franklin Park Tragedy, A Forgotten Story of Racial Injustice in New Jersey,” which was released in a Kindle Direct Publishing edition in July 2023 as “The Franklin Park Tragedy Axe Murders.” It tells the story of a little-known 1894 murder by two African Americans, and how community outrage unfairly fell on Franklin Park's Black community.

Click on the image at right to open the latest issue as a PDF.