Hopewell Valley History Project
Preserving Our History
The February 2026 updates to the History Project included a photos of the Blizzard of February 2003, and a local connection to the Tom Thumb Wedding phenomena. (See Site Updates for more.) More Snow: The Blizzard of February 2003 These are scrapbook pages on the Blizzard of February 17, 2003, kindly donated by Edie and … Continue reading February 2026 Update – Blizzard of 2003 / Tom Thumb Wedding
Since we’ve been having so much fun with snow and ice and sub-freezing weather, you’ll really appreciate these scenes from a couple decades ago: the blizzard of February 17, 2003. These are scrapbook pages kindly donated by Edie and Roger Labaw, that show chilly views around their home on Columbia Avenue near Seminary Avenue. The … Continue reading More Snow: The Blizzard of February 2003
The people of Hopewell Borough must have been going stir crazy by the last weekend of 1894, slogging through the long, cold, dark, snowy winter. And then came another “combination snow, rain and hail storm” on Thursday morning. But the “storm-king spent his fury,” and the Hopewell Herald newspaper gleefully reported that by the afternoon … Continue reading Sleigh Races in Snowy Hopewell – 1894
