Hopewell Valley History Project
Preserving Our History
Updates on the construction of the Runyon Farmstead property – starting in May 2023. == See the full set of current Runyon Farmstead Construction Photos ==== See also Hopewell Inn construction updates – and photos == Runyon Farmstead History The Runyon Farmstead property is at 19 West Broad Street, just west of South Greenwood Avenue. … Continue reading Runyon Farmstead Construction Updates
— The 2023 Harvest Fair has been rescheduled to October 21 — The 35th Annual Hopewell Harvest Fair is this Saturday, September 23, 2023, from 10 am to 4 pm at the Hopewell Elementary School, 35 Princeton Avenue, Hopewell, NJ. This volunteer community event has been providing fun and entertainment for Hopewell Valley families and … Continue reading Hopewell Harvest Fair – Photos
The Hopewell Quarry Swim Club, west of Hopewell Borough, was once the site of a rock quarry that operated from the 1890s to around 1920, making crushed stone for local roads. And the stone crusher equipment there did provide the name for the adjacent Crusher Road. In this profusely illustrated presentation, Doug Dixon surveys this … Continue reading Memories of the Hopewell Quarry – Video and References
The story of the Hopewell quarry that made crushed stone for local roads in the 1890s, and of the Quarry Swim Club that developed in the 1920s as the quarry pit filled in with water, which then was sustained and enhanced for over a century, and now has been preserved as open space. Douglas Dixon, … Continue reading Talk: Memories of the Hopewell Quarry: Stones to Swimming
The July updates to the History Project included galleries of construction updates on the Hopewell Inn and Runyon Farmstead properties, more on the evolution of the Quarry Swim Club, additional Hopewell Valley church histories, and the Hopewell Bicentennial Quilt. (See Site Updates for more.) By the numbers, we finished the month with 300 files in … Continue reading July 2023 Update – Construction Updates
Updates on the construction of the new Hopewell Inn building – starting in April 2023. == See the full set of current Hopewell Inn Construction Photos ==== See also Runyon Farmstead construction updates – and photos == Hopewell Inn / Central Hotel History The original Hopewell Valley Bistro & Inn building, at 15 East Broad … Continue reading Hopewell Inn Construction Updates
The June updates to the History Project included a collection of Pennington Day booklets, the “Houses of Hopewell” by Harry McCandless, information on the Construction on the Runyon Property in Hopewell, and the Hopewell National Bank Stone Sign. (See Site Updates for more.) By the numbers, we finished the month with 300 files in the … Continue reading June 2023 Update – Pennington Day
These are a set of eleven Pennington Day Booklets from the period of 1987 through 1999 (with a couple missing), thanks to Jon and Mary Baum, who created the booklets from 1989 to 1996. The over 400 pages were scanned to Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format, with text recognition (OCR) run on them so they are … Continue reading Pennington Day Booklet Collection
Construction has begun on the Runyon Farmstead property at 19 West Broad Street, just west of South Greenwood Avenue. The house is one of the oldest in the borough. It is called the Runyon property for its recent owners, and also is known as the Hopewell Academy property – since this was the site of … Continue reading Construction on the Runyon Farmstead Property in Hopewell
The May updates to the History Project included a video of the 1965 Titusville July 4th celebration and a 1975 video of the bar at the Hopewell Inn, plus historic images of William Howe’s “Dixie Farm” in Pennington, and video and references for the Hopewell Inn presentation. (See Site Updates for more.) By the numbers, … Continue reading May 2023 Update – Memorial Day
