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.
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