Library Hours	Officers and Trustees	Join the Society
Available Publications		The Hunterdon Gazette

 

The Hunterdon County Historical Society's library has been in existence since the Society was founded in 1885.  In 1963, through the bequest of the late Hiram E. Deats, over 3,000 items were added.  These included his personal library and notes on the places and families of Hunterdon County. Today, the library consists of 5,000 printed volumes, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, broadsides and photographs gathered and preserve since the Society was founded.

 

Library Hours

- Thursdays, 12 Noon to 4 PM.
- The second and fourth Saturday of every month, excluding Holidays, from 10 AM to 4 PM.
- By appointment

Officers and Trustees

President	Richard H. Stothoff
Vice Presidents	Harold O. Van Fleet
Recording Secretary	Mary Elizabeth Sheppard
Corresponding Secretary	Roxanne K. Carkhuff
Treasurer	John W. Kuhl
Trustees at Large
Charles W Fisher	Douglas D. Martin
Lora W. Jones	John Matsen
Edna Pedrick	Clifford L. Hoffman
Beth Rice	Stephanie Stevens
Donald F. Scholl	William Young
Executive Director	Terry A. McNealy
Curator of Manuscripts	Donald Cornelius

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How to Join

If you would like to join the Hunterdon County Historical Society, please print out form and mail it with your check to the Society.
[Checks drawn on banks outside the United States must include an additional $5.00 to compensate for a bank cashing fee.]

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Hunterdon County Historical Society
114 Main Street
Flemington, NJ  08822

Please enroll me as a member of your Society

    Annual         $15.00 per year
    Family         $18.00 per year
    Contributing   $25.00 per year
    Sustaining     $50.00 per year
    Institutional  $50.00 and up per year
    Life           $250.00 
    Patron         $1,000.00 or more
    Student        $3.00 per year (18 years of age or less)

for which I enclose my remittance in the amount of $___________

Name:________________________________________

Address:_____________________________________

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The
 HUNTERDON GAZETTE CD

The Final CD for the years 1857 thru 1866 is now available.
CDs for the years 1825-1834, 1835-1844, and 1845-1856 remain available.

The Hunterdon Gazette was first published in 1825. Bill Hartman has extracted items from this newspaper, the first published in Hunterdon County. The items with names of people and topics of interest to Hunterdon have been typed to make it easier to read. Names of the people found in the articles and key words have been indexed. The fourth CD in the series of four is now available through the able assistance of Richard R. Williamson and Marshall Lake. The Hunterdon County Historical Society is making an Index and the newspaper articles available to researchers. This is a great undertaking and the results of the work done so far are being published now.

The Index to the 1825 to 1866 Issues of the Gazette is available on this web site. 

The first CD for the Years 1825 through 1834, the second for 1835 thru 1844, and third CD for 1845 thru 1856 are still available. The fourth and final CD is now completed. The CD was created with the Microsoft operating system. MAC users please click here. The information included on the CD is in  MS Word [.doc files], MS Excel [.xls files], both of which are duplicated in the Portable Document Format [pdf] requiring the free ‘Adobe Acrobat Reader’ software to open; and the pictures are ‘.jpg’ files.

1. ReadMe Files full of important information.  [doc & pdf]
    

2. Overall Name and Key Word Index for the years preceding the CD (all 42 years in CD #4) and the Index for the period of time covered by each CD. These Indexes include reference to the Year in which the name appears. The name format is the same as that used in the Index on this Web site. [xls & pdf]
    

3. Typed and formatted text of the newspaper items containing people and events of Hunterdon County.   [See a sample of what is included] [doc & pdf]
    

4. Digital photograph images of the Gazette Issues from which the typed text was obtained.  [jpg]
    

5. Listing of each newspaper issue, its date and condition of the paper. [.doc & .pdf]
    

6. Miscellaneous stuff:

·         Old Map of Hunterdon County

·         Picture of an old printing press

·         A list of all the Owners/editors of the Gazette

·         Statistics of the project including number of pages of text and number of index entries.

·         The book: “The Press in Hunterdon County 1825-1925” by Hubert G. Schmidt is included with permission of the Hunterdon County Democrat. This is  included with CDs #2, #3, & #4.

·         The book: “Hunterdon County Place Names” 2nd edition is included only on CD #4. This was originally compiled by Phyllis B. D’Autrechy and has been updated by William Hartman from material found in the Hunterdon Gazette. The Book is included with permission of the Hunterdon County Cultural and Heritage Commission.

Each CD is $15.00 for members of the Society or $20 for non-members.  To order one of the CDs, print out an order form and send to the Hunterdon County Historical Society at the address provided on the form.

Checks drawn on Banks outside the USA must include an additional $5.00 processing fee charge by our Bank. CDs sent to addresses outside the USA must include an additional fee of $2.00 to cover postage. To order a copy of any of the CDs, please complete the order form. Read feedback [Updated 11/08/04] for comments from persons who have received the CD. To Repeat: Mac users please note that the CD may NOT open with the MAC platform. Because of a limited number of requests for this platform, the production expense is presently prohibitive.

Please note that all material on the CD which includes - Indexes, Text documents (typed reproduction of newspaper items), Digital Images of the original newspaper, reproductions of ‘Wood Cuts’ and associated documents - are the sole property of the Hunterdon County Historical Society and are made available for individuals to use in their genealogical, historical and associated research. This material may be reproduced for private use only. Any other distribution or reproduction is prohibited without express written approval from the HCHS.

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