Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Karen and Paul Franklin used the borough's Adopt-A-House program to research the history of their home.
The Chatham Borough Historical Society recently awarded Karen and Paul Franklin of 27 N. Hillside Ave. with a Historical Home Plaque, celebrating their efforts to research and record the history of their house. Historical Society member Joyce Martinsen said the Franklins used material from the borough's Adopt-A-House program to research the history of the land around their home, the builder and previous owners. They found the following: The Chatham Borough Historical Society launched the Dani McCulloch Historical Plaque program in 2010 to commemorate homes over 100 years old and promote the Adopt-a-House program. Through these initiatives, the Historical Society hopes to foster a passion for local history among borough residents. …
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The Chatham Borough Historical Society worked with students from Chatham High School to offer the tour annually.
Susan Allen of the Chatham Borough Historical Society updated the Chatham Borough Council on an effort to turn a walking tour of Fair Mount Cemetery into an annual field trip for Lafayette Avenue School students. "We started thinking about, how are we going to get the children of this town to know what the background was of this village, how we all got here, who got it to where it is," Allen said. Christine Grobert, a teacher at Lafayette and member of the Historical Society, and the society's school liaison, Amy Crandal, helped the society rearrange the tour to gear it toward young students. The society reached out to drama students at Chatham High School and had them portray various people from Chatham's past. The tour for fourth-graders…
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Barbara Hall has researched records in her effort to get a memorial stone for borough residents who died in the Civil War installed at Memorial Park.
Former Chatham Borough Mayor Barbara Hall went before the council Monday to ask for support in expanding the war memorial in Memorial Park. The park's first memorial was dedicated on July 5, 1920 to honor Chatham residents who died in World War I. "That was the first war after Chatham became first the village, then the Borough of Chatham," Hall said. Over the past 92 years more monuments were added for additional wars, including World War II. The park was rededicated on May 31, 1997 for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Chatham Borough. In 2011 the plaques were refurbished and a new stone and plaque were added to honor Vincent Sullivan, a Chatham resident who died in the second Gulf War. Hall now wishes to have the council's …
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Students explored historical Fair Mount Cemetery
About 350 fourth-grade students from Lafayette Avenue School took a trip to Fair Mount Cemetery Wednesday to learn more about local history. Drama students from Chatham High School played various historical people from Chatham's past, currently interred at the cemetery. These included Shepard Kollock, Frederick H. Lum, the Rev. Joseph Ogden and Linda Phillips. The 14 participating Chatham High students learned the biographies of their characters from members of the Chatham Borough Historical Society, who orchestrated the event. Christine Grobert from Lafayette Avenue School arranged for the elementary students to visit the cemetery, and Lynn Polan from Chatham High arranged for the drama students to bring the historical figures to life. …
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
The screening of the 1926 film is part of a presentation by the Chatham Borough Historical Society.
The Chatham Borough Historical Society presents a two-part program Sunday, including the first public screening of the 'Three Towns Pageant,' a homemade video of a large-scale skit from 1926 performed by residents of Madison, Summit and Chatham. The film, recently transferred to DVD, premiered in May at a meeting of the Historical Society. The pageant portrayed the original settling of the Watchung Valley through the period of the Revolutionary War, complete with historical figures like Gen. Lafayette and more whimsical figures like the Wind Spirits and a skeletal Death. Residents of Chatham, Summit (The Heights) and Madison (Bottle Hill) were directed in the pageant by then-resident Herbert T. Strong, a "mover and a shaker" from Chatham, …
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Leonard Resto
9:29 pm on Tuesday, January 22, 2013
I've been by that home in my periodic runs (I should say jogs) around town. It's a lovely home and the Franklins have really restored it well. Congrats on the award! more ›