Hopewell Valley History Project
Preserving Our History
Timeline of the construction of the Runyon Farmstead property – May 2023 – Oct. 2024 Runyon Farmstead History The Runyon Farmstead property is at 19 West Broad Street, just west of South Greenwood Avenue. The property fronts Broad Street with one of the oldest houses in the borough, and extends back behind the Post Office … 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 August updates to the History Project included more on the Quarry Swim Club and the American Legion Carnival. (See Site Updates for more.) By the numbers, we finished the month with 300 files in the Archives, including 150 documents and 150 maps and aerials. The Image Gallery now has 3513 files, and the Panoramas … Continue reading August 2023 Update – Legion Carnival
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 started in June 2023 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 … Continue reading Construction on the Runyon Farmstead Property in Hopewell
