Hopewell Valley History Project
Preserving Our History
This Pennington N. J. Fire Company 125th Anniversary Booklet was published in 2016, and includes 64 pages with photos and information on current and past officers, members, and equipment. There are also extensive sections on the history of the history of the Fire Company and the Ladies Auxiliary. The Pennington Fire Company is one of … Continue reading Pennington Fire Company 125th Anniversary – 2016
The recently-closed Hopewell Theater Building at 5 South Greenwood Avenue in Hopewell has been the site of multiple different types of theaters since 1897, from a community hall to movie theater, research center to oldies movie theater, live musical theater to indie arts venue. The South Greenwood street was opened up around 1896 with the … Continue reading Hopewell Theaters on South Greenwood
by Douglas Dixon Here are some highlights of the 2023 additions to the History Project site, with links to more information, plus associated documents, maps, photos, and videos. The purpose of the Hopewell Valley History Project is assemble an archive of reference material in local history, shared online in digital and searchable formats for education … Continue reading Hopewell History Project – 2023 Highlights
We have posted a new collection of some 180 photos of people and activities at St. Michael’s Orphanage in a album on the History Project site. This is in addition to the some 30 existing mostly postcards of the building, for a total of over 200 images now shared on the site. These include over … Continue reading St. Michael’s Orphanage Photo Collection
65 East Broad Street in Hopewell was built in 1933 as a combination garage, store, and apartment – and as the new home of the Arena family and their Italian-American grocery business. The building was shared by multiple businesses into the 1940s, and then was the home of several auto sales and repair businesses until … Continue reading 65 East Broad, Hopewell – Markets and Autos
This is a pictorial summary of the history of the Old School Baptist Church and its property. As you can see from these images of the church and grounds, the historic building and cemetery are remarkably well preserved and substantially unchanged from over a century ago. The Old School Baptist Church was the core of … Continue reading Old School Baptist Church – Pictorial History
Continuing in our effort to capture and archive the histories of the local Hopewell Valley churches, here is a presentation from 2002 created to celebrate and document the 125th anniversary of the Hopewell Presbyterian Church. The presentation includes historical photos and information on the early church properties along West Broad and Louellen streets, a chronology … Continue reading Hopewell Presbyterian Church 125th Anniversary – 2002
For a look back to the Hopewell area in the 1970s and 1980s, we can explore Hopewell Community Day – a very full day of community fun and activities that was the predecessor to the current Hopewell Harvest Fair. Over the years, Community Day developed into a fundraiser for the many local volunteer and non-profit … Continue reading Remembering Hopewell Community Day, 1974 – 1985
What do you notice in these two 1974 aerial views around the Hopewell Elementary School? One shows the view from the school north to Broad Street, and the other shows the view west from the intersection of Broad and Princeton Avenue. These wonderfully clear photos show features including St. Alphonsus Church, the businesses then at … Continue reading Hopewell Borough 1974 Aerials
The September updates to the History Project included the Quarry Swim Club presentation and related references including information on stone crusher machines, plus photos of the Hopewell Harvest Fair and updates on the Runyon Farmstead construction. (See Site Updates for more.) By the numbers, we finished the month with 308 files in the Archives, including … Continue reading September 2023 Update – Quarry Video
