Welcome to the NEW MEHS web site. On this site you will find news and information about the society's programs and activities, copies of our newsletters, and other items of interest. If you are looking for some previously posted information, here is a link to our old web site pages. Go to www.jhalpin.com for Jim Halpin's collection of historic photographs.
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Upcoming Events
Local History Day 2012
Sunday February 12, 2012, 1:30-4:00 pm. Metuchen Library, 480 Middlesex Ave. Metuchen.
The once a year chance to look at thousands of photographs and other items from our collections!
At Local History Day we will relase the Winter 2012 Nannygoats will honor Black History Month, Lincoln's Birthday, the Sesquicentennial of the start of the Civil War, the theme of the issue is local African American History, with a special article about Thomas Peterson the first African-American to vote under the auspices of the Fifteenth Amendment to the US Constitution in 1870.
Contact Steve Reuter for more information: 732-452-1381
New Links:
Cylinder Preservation & Digitization Project
Dismal Swamp Cultural Resources Survey 1986
Go to our Links page for connections to other interesting sites, and Archives page for historical information.
New Book about Metuchen and life.
Exit 10 a book by Tom Cheche Click Here for order form.
Winter 2011 Nannygoats is now available!
Click here for the Metuchen Trivia Quiz
Contact us at:
P.O. Box 61 Metuchen, NJ 08840
E-mail: info@metuchen-edisonhistsoc.org
The Metuchen Edison Historical Society is a nonprofit corporation organized under the provisions of Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
The mission of the Metuchen-Edison Historical Society is to stimulate and promote an interest in and an appreciation of the history of the geographic area in and around the Borough of Metuchen,and the Township of Edison in the County of Middlesex New Jersey.
To fulfill this mission, the Society shall foster the creation, collection, preservation, and maintenance of physical material related to the history of Metuchen and Edison, make the material available to the public in various formats, and increase public awareness of this history.
The MEHS archive is located in the Grimstead room of the Metuchen Public Library
480 Middlesex Ave. Metuchen NJ.
Photos above L to R: Thomas Edison as he looked when he invented at Menlo Park, Metuchen Shuttle, Edison's Laboratory Menlo Park, Main St. Metuchen.
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