Millville Historical Society
200 East Main Street
Millville, NJ 08322
(856) 293-1078
https://www.facebook.com/Millvillehs/
Open: Sunday 1:00pm-4:00pm/Monday-Tuesday Closed/Wednesday 1:00pm-4:00pm/Thursday-Saturday Closed
Admission: Free but donations are accepted and recommended to help operate the museum
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The Millville Historical Society at 200 East in tv Main Street
The Baracha-Dunn House right next door to the Historical Society is open for touring.
History of the museum:
(from the museum’s website)
The Millville Historical Society has been preserving Millville, New Jersey’s past for over nine decades. Incorporated in 1927, the organization’s headquarters and archives depositary is located in the historic 1857 Millville Bank at 200 E. Main St., Millville.
The main gallery of the Millville Historical Society
The Society has been entrusted with the care of three of Millville’s most historic structures: the 1857 Bank building at 200 E. Main Street, the 1798 Baracha Dunn House, and the 1814 Wood Mansion House.
Admission to all buildings is free. Donations are gratefully accepted.
The main gallery of the Millville Historical Society from the front door
I recently visited the Millville Historical Society and got to tour the museum and the historical home next door. The main part of the museum is built inside a historic bank that the Society took over in the 1970’s. All the displays are showcased around the museum.
The original picture of the Millville National Bank during the turn of the last century
One of the first displays you will see is the original drawing of the bank. This beautiful historic building sits on the very edge of the downtown as you enter Millville. On the top of the display was a model of a sand separator that was in the creation of glass which the area was known for in the previous century.
The historic map of Downtown Millville, NJ
Another display has a model one of the major ferries that once ran in Millville.
The model of the Millville
The ferry that once ran in the area
The pictures of when the boat was christened
There was school display with one of the old bells of the school’s in Millville and a picture of one of its long serving principles, Rebecca Mulford Bacon.
The bell from the schoolhouse
Principal Rebecca Milford Bacon
The Principal’s plaque
The museum houses the recorded history of the town and the genealogy of the town and its citizens for people to research.
The Research Library along with more artifacts
After I toured the displays along the perimeter of the museum, I had a tour of the Baracha-Dunn House next door which was part of the historical society’s complex. These historic buildings were built in the late 1700’s and the addition in the early 1800’s. The tour takes you through both the main house and the later addition both upstairs and downstairs.
The Barack’s-Dunn house was open for a tour
The entrance the house from the street
The main room of the original house with the hearth in the main room for cooking and for heat in the house
The hearth is the center of the house
The Living Room of the main home
The Living Room of the home
The Living Room
The other side of the house which was the later addition to the home offered more rooms.
The Living Room from the main door
We walked up the narrow stairs to the second floor to the bedrooms. Each small room on the second floor was furnished with period furniture.
The bedroom on one side of the house
The second floor bedroom the leads to the attic
The second floor bedroom
This room led to the connected room on the other side of the floor
The small room on the second floor
The bedroom on the second floor
The Children’s room display of toys, furniture and clothing
The display of Children’s item
The house really showed life in the early parts of the 1800. The home’s period furniture decorates all the rooms in this home. The museum has another historical home in the downtown area that was closed that day. The museum offers a glimpse of Millville in its past.
The historical sign outside the museum
On my second trip to the Millville Historical Society, I was able to visit the Wood Mansion from 1814. The home had been home to generations of the Wood family, the founders of Wawa, among other businesses.
The Wood Family Mansion
The Historical Society Museum sign
The David Wood Historical sign
The Living Room decorated for the holidays
The Victorian Christmas tree in the formal parlo
The Christmas decorations in the Living Room
Th bannister decorated for the holidays
The Dining Room decorated for the holidays
The mantle in the Dining Room decorated for the holidays
The dish-ware area
The kitchen fireplace
The Ice House display under renovation
The Whitall Tatum glass display
The Whitall Glass display
The Wood family tree and the progression of the business of the family
The local amusement park display
The local factory display
Pictures of the mansion since 1814
The Lincoln display
The main bedroom
The main bedroom
The Children’s display
The Children’s Toy Display
The Children’s Toy display
The Trolley display
The other Bedroom display
This beautiful Grandfather clock was made Salem, NJ
The beautiful display on the front door when you leave the house. Everything had been decorated for the holidays
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