Hopewell Valley History Project
Preserving Our History
Here is a fun collection of milk bottles and other artifacts from the heyday of independent farms and dairies in the Hopewell Valley in the mid 1900s. These are from the collection of Robert Warznak, including some items from his grandparent’s dairy, Hillcrest Farm (or Hillcrest Dairy), on Pennington-Titusville Road. They include bottles from the … Continue reading Hopewell Valley Dairies
The December updates to the History Project featured the Hopewell Creamery, plus a variety of other historic photographs. (See Site Updates for more.) By the numbers, we finished the month with 289 files in the Archives, including 142 documents and 147 maps and aerials. The Image Gallery now has 3187 files, and the Panoramas Collection … Continue reading December 2022 Update – Hopewell Creamery
It’s Hopewell Borough’s 2021 Annual Town-Wide Yard Sale weekend! So as you clear out the attic and browse the sales, please be on the lookout for historic artifacts that we can preserve and share here on the History Project site. We welcome all types of materials that illustrate and explain our past, including: Printed – … Continue reading Preserving Hopewell Yard Sale Artifacts
Here’s a beer bottle for your Thanksgiving holiday weekend. And a mystery – who was Michael Staiger, and what and where was his Hopewell Bottling Company? ** See Update below – 11/29/20 ** The Bottle This bottle, inherited from a Hopewell Borough relative, is marked as: – M. ST. / Hopewell Bottling Company / New … Continue reading Hopewell Bottling Company / Michael Staiger
