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HVHS Annual Meeting – Drake Farmstead Tour at The Watershed Institute
September 18, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
REGISTER HERE ONLY for the on-line virtual presentation over Zoom. No registration is required to attend in person.
2 p.m. – HVHS Annual Meeting with Election of Officers and Trustees
The public is welcome to attend. Members will vote on HVHS business.
Presentation of the Hopewell Valley History Awards.
2:30 p.m. – Historic Preservation Program: “An Unlikely Story of a Family Farm and an Undercover Heiress”
Presentation and tour of the Drake Farmstead at The Watershed Institute by Patrick Harshbarger, an historian and archeologist at Hunter Research.
The Drake farmstead was home to six generations of the Drake Family who ran a successful mixed agricultural operation for 150 years. The farmstead, known in the 20th century as Brookdale Farm, was later home to Dr. Muriel and Joseph Buttinger, who donated the land and buildings to the Watershed over a period of several decades in the latter 20th century.
The annual meeting and the presentation (but not the outdoor tour) also will be streamed online over Zoom.
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REGISTER HERE ONLY for the on-line virtual presentation over Zoom. No registration is required to attend in person at The Watershed Institute, 31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington, NJ 08534.