Hopewell Valley History Project
Preserving Our History
The March updates to the History Project featured a new History Brief report on the Hopewell theaters on 5 South Greenwood Avenue in the Borough, photos of local train stations and of the recent COVID shutdown in Pennington, and booklets from the Pennington Fire Company 125th anniversary and the Hopewell Township Police Department 25th anniversary. … Continue reading March 2023 Update – Hopewell Theaters
The February updates to the History Project featured both past and future publications, including historical Pennington Presbyterian Church anniversary booklets and local Hopewell restaurant menus as a piece of future history. Other examples of local history include postcards of local rock formations from the early 1900s and typography projects from local school work around 1920. … Continue reading February 2023 Update – Past and Current Booklets
The January updates to the History Project featured information on automobile travel in the early 1900s – maps, travel guides, and cars – plus a video of the 1984 Pennington Memorial Day parade. (See Site Updates for more.) By the numbers, we finished the month with 319 files in the Archives, including 157 documents and … Continue reading January 2023 Update – Automobile Travel
The A.L.A. Automobile Green Book Official Touring Guide is an early version of what we now know as AAA tour guides, with maps, travel information, and directions. These were published from c. 1920 through the 1940s and apparently into the 1950s. This 1924 Volume 2 had 924 pages in small type with turn-by-turn directions for … Continue reading 1924 A.L.A. Automobile Green Book
