Tag: Murray Farmhouse

Adding to a recent spate of initiatives to protect open space and preserve historic sites, the township committee unanimously passed a resolution at its May 6 meeting authorizing the restoration of the Murray Farmhouse at Poricy Park. The committee also introduced a bond ordinance for $1 million to facilitate the acquisition of the Tretter property.

Poricy Park, one of the largest in Monmouth County at 250 acres, offers a nature preserve, an education center and a New Jersey Historic site in the former home of a Revolutionary War hero, the Murray Farmhouse.

The statewide nonprofit group Preservation New Jersey (PNJ) recently named the Revolutionary War-era Joseph Murray farmhouse and barn, located near Oak Hill Road in Middletown, to its annual 10 Most Endangered Historic Places list.

MIDDLETOWN – Poricy Park Conser­vancy will hold a re-enactment from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 9, of Patriot Joseph Murray’s encounter with Colonel...