Hopewell Valley History Project
Preserving Our History
This is “The Game of Hopewell Valley” from 1993 – not to be confused with “The Game of Hopewell [Boro]” from 1985 (see earlier post). Both are Monopoly-like board games, complete with property and chance cards – and stacks of play money. The “Hopewell” game was created by the 1985 Hopewell Community Day and features … Continue reading The Game of Hopewell Valley
The Hopewell Valley Bistro & Inn building – at 15 East Broad Street on the corner of Seminary Avenue – is being prepped for demolition. It will be rebuilt as an upscale restaurant and apartments, with a historically familiar design based on the heyday of the building around the 1930s (see MercerMe article). The building, … Continue reading Hopewell Inn Memorabilia
Doug Dixon of the Hopewell Valley History Project will demonstrate how researching in a variety of resources can weave together interesting stories of our local history.
It’s Hopewell Borough’s annual Town-Wide Yard Sale weekend, Saturday and Sunday, June 11 & 12. So as you clear out the attic and browse the sales – this weekend and this summer – please be on the lookout for historic artifacts that we can preserve and share here on the History Project site. Here are … Continue reading Yard Sailing for Local History
References and links for the Seminary Avenue Historic Walking Tour, which also included East Broad Street and South Greenwood Avenue. The tour was held the weekend of Saturday, May 21, as part of Hopewell Valley Heritage Week. See the References for the tour below, including the Handout, plus briefs on Seminary Ave. and East Broad … Continue reading Seminary Avenue Tour – References
The May updates to the History Project were focused on the Seminary Avenue walking tour, with posts and briefs and images of the streets and properties along the route. Additional posts focused on Memorial Day observances, and told the story of of how the news came to Hopewell of its first son who was killed … Continue reading May 2022 Update – Seminary Ave.
This is the story of how the news came to Hopewell of its first son who was killed in World War II – Irvin D. Van Nest, Jr. (1916-1943). The story is told by Dean Ashton, who published over 50 issues of his “Hopewell News” news-sheet during the war, with a distribution of over 500 … Continue reading Memorial Day – Hopewell’s First Fatality in WW II
This Memorial Day weekend, Hopewell Valley American Legion Post 339 will conduct cemetery and monument services on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday at multiple locations in Hopewell Township, Hopewell Borough, and Pennington Borough, respectively (i.e., in the mornings before the borough parades). The Hopewell Valley Veterans Association (HVVA) also will conduct an observance at the Veterans … Continue reading Memorial Day Weekend Veterans Services
One welcome result of working on this year’s Seminary Avenue Historic Walking Tour has been the discovery four previously-unknown historic photos of East Broad Street and Seminary Avenue in Hopewell from around the 1920s. Seminary Avenue Historic Walking Tour: Sat. May 21 – Mon. May 21 See References for the tour, including the Handout, plus … Continue reading Lost Hopewell Photos – Seminary & Broad
What do you remember about 21 East Broad Street in Hopewell Borough, the building at the entrance to Seminary Avenue? The two-story structure seems unremarkable – a simple rectangular building split into two storefronts on the ground floor, with residential space above. But this building has a long history of well-known occupants, back to its … Continue reading 21 East Broad – Hopewell Groceries / Barbers / Restaurants
