Tag: MCHA
Monmouth County Historical Association Offers Something for Everyone
Monmouth County is steeped in history and the Monmouth County Historical Association (MCHA) wants to help unpack all of it.
Citizen Historians Invited to Document This Moment in Time
Jan Connolly, a writer and market consultant, contributed to the Monmouth County Historical Association’s Remembering COVID-19 project March 17. MCHA is...
Monmouth County Historical Association Kicks Off Oral History Project
Historians are seeking "more culturally diverse stories" to add to their collection.
Care of Holmes-Hendrickson House To Be Transferred to Park System
By Rick Geffken |
HOLMDEL – Imagine for a moment that Garret Hendrickson, who died in 1801, reappeared inside his extant farmhouse in Holmdel. Hendrickson...
Freehold Newspaper From 1888 Is Now Digitized, Searchable
By Rick Geffken |
FREEHOLD - Ron Bennett of Jackson has traced his family back to the earliest days of Monmouth County when many of...
Shifting Patterns: How Women Once Dressed
By Rick Geffken |
MIDDLETOWN – Convenience trumps fashion today. A few seconds is all it takes a woman to don yoga pants and slip...
Historical Association Looks Forward To 2018
By Muriel J. Smith
RED BANK – It was a combination of the “Greatest Show on Earth” and the 119th annual meeting of the Monmouth...
The MCHA Tracks Sandy, Five Years On
By Rick Geffken |
The Monmouth County Historical Association (MCHA) welcomed a steady stream of visitors to its headquarters during an appropriately reminiscent rainy and...
Car Crashes Onto Doorstep of 300-Year Old Building
By Jay Cook |
SHREWSBURY BOROUGH – One of the area’s oldest historical buildings may have had its most undesirable visitor in its 300-plus year...
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
By Emma Wulfhorst |
SHREWSBURY — People young and old, from different towns, states and even countries, gathered on the lawn outside the historic Allen...