The New Jersey Historical Society is an historical society and museum located in Newark, New Jersey. It was founded in 1844 at Trenton by intellectual and business leaders of New Jersey, most prominently William Whitehead and Joseph C. Hornblower.
The New Jersey Historical Society's building next to Military Park.
The Society was first located on Market Street in Newark. In 1931 it left downtown for a large colonial-style building partially paid for by Louis Bamberger in Broadway, east of Branch Brook Park.
In 1997 the Historical Society moved back downtown, to 52 Park Place, on Military Park. The new home was a Georgian building vacated by the defunct Essex Club. In its first year in the downtown location visits increased almost five-fold.
The Historical Society has the largest library on New Jersey History in the world. The library is housed in the old squash courts of the Essex Club. It has two floors of exhibition space, a gift shop, and a hall for lectures. The NJHS offers occasional Newark walking tours.
The third floor is a permanent exhibition on New Jersey's natural resources. The second floor has rotating exhibits. The current exhibits are on treating tuberculosis, the South Side of Ellis Island, and the work of Newark commercial photographer William F. Cone.
Admission is free, but a donation is appreciated. The Society can also be supported by making purchases in the gift shop.
The New Jersey/New York region was critical in the development of the stoneware industry in the United States during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The NewJerseyHistoricalSociety (jerseyhistory.org) is a state-wide, private, non-profit historical museum, library, and archives dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting the rich and intricate political, social, cultural and economic history of NewJersey to the broadest possible audiences.
Slightly later in the mid-18th century, Captain James Morgan, a key figure in the history of NewJersey stoneware and owner of substantial clay-bearing acreage, opened a stoneware manufactory in Cheesequake, where he trained the next generation of stoneware potters in the region, among whom were his son, General James Morgan and son-in-law Thomas Warne.
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