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Important Announcement
2024 SCAHC 14th Annual Heritage WeekendMonroe One Room School House on Oct 12 and 13 from 12 – 2pm
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February 2024: The Seward Family Homestead
The Seward family were important people in the early days of Hardyston. Just a few years after Hardyston became a township, John Seward came up from the Black River area in Morris County and started a farm. John was a freeholder in Sussex County. When the Revolutionary War came about he was involved in a…
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January 2024: Colonel John Seward
High atop Snufftown Mountain lived a Patriot man named John Seward. He lived 1730 – 1797. He was a freeholder in Sussex County from Hardyston in 1767. During the Revolutionary War he enlisted in the New Jersey line. He rose from private to captain to colonel. He was in several major battles during the war.…
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December 2023: Hardyston Cemeteries
Our Hardyston Township is a large landmass. It used to be much larger but during the quarter millennium that it has been here several towns have been carved out of the township. A usual reason was economics. These “new” towns, like Franklin or Hamburg, had a fairly dense population centered onbusiness and industry. This was in…
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November 2023: Hardyston’s Creamery
Sussex County and Hardyston Township have grown from a rural setting. Two hundred years ago most people were farmers. They were subsistence farmers—that is, they would need to provide all that life required for they and their families. Thus they had to have poultry and cattle for meat, vegetables and corn and carrots for the…
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October 2023
As one drives on Route 23, coming west from New York City, one finds a lot of vacant land. This area is a large wild area that was bought up by the city of Newark around the turn of the 19th Century, It was used for the creation of the Newark Watershed to give the…
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September 2023
Even though it is summer, there was activity at the Monroe One Room Schoolhouse in Hardyston Township on Monday July 24, 2023. The Sparta Historical Society was invited to the schoolhouse for some informational exchange and camaraderie. Sparta is going to have a schoolhouse exhibit at their Van Kirk Museum and wanted to see first…
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August 2023: North Hardyston Cemetery
The North Hardyston Cemetery may be found along Route 94. This is located on the top of the hill that is just beyond where Rt 94 meets Route 623. This Rt 623 is also known as North Church Road. Townships used to be much bigger, and the first Presbyterian Church was established just after the Revolutionary…
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July 2023: The Monroe One Room Schoolhouse
One of the premier historical locations in Hardyston Township, that still exists, is the Monroe One Room Schoolhouse. This quaint stone structure is located on the southwest corner of the Township along today’s Route 94. Back in the day, Hardyston Township was much larger and the area had a number of small schools in each…
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June 2023
Hardyston Township covers a large geographic area. Many people know about Crystal Springs Resort and all of the golf courses in the township. There is also pastureland, horse farms, wooded places and the Hamburg Mountains. Up on Hamburg Mountain is the hamlet of Stockholm. The area at one time was called Snufftown and it is…
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