Call to Action: Join Over 300 Organizations Supporting the Historic Preservation Fund
Dear Friends: There’s still time to add your voice! Over 300 organizations, businesses, agencies, and entities from 46 states and the District of Columbia have signed on to a bipartisan letter urging Congress to reauthorize the Historic Preservation...Read More
A Belleville Historian Restoring Graves at Newark’s Mount Pleasant Cemetery
In 1835, Nathan Mead fled slavery on a Maryland plantation, but was apprehended after crossing over the New Jersey border. This was a time when the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 threatened those seeking freedom with immediate return without trial. However,...Read More
Home of Revolutionary War Surgeon Continues to be Preserved in South Jersey
Nestled among a mix of contemporary and late nineteenth-century homes on Kings Highway stands a distinguished stone residence that predates the founding of the United States. The house occupies a site in the farming community of Mickleton, part of East...Read More
PNJ Recognizes 2025 New Jersey Historic Preservation Award Winners
TRENTON, NJ – Preservation New Jersey (‘PNJ’), a statewide member-supported non-profit historic preservation organization founded in 1978, supports and promotes New Jersey’s diverse communities and rich heritage through advocacy, education, and...Read More
Has the DEP Abandoned the East Point Lighthouse?
The East Point Lighthouse sits at the end of a two-mile road that cuts through a seemingly endless marsh. It feels remote, but that is one of its charms. Monarch butterflies dance among the swaying reeds during their late summer migration. But its...Read More
Is New Jersey’s Affordable Housing Mandate Being Misused by Developers?
The Princeton Theological Seminary is one of the nation’s oldest divinity schools and over the course of its history, it has been a battleground for the moral issues of the day. Nowadays, the campus is the stage of a fierce debate over affordable...Read More
Remarks to the Delaware Bay Lighthouse Keepers & Friends Association
First, I want to thank Mark Allen and the Delaware Bay Lighthouse Keepers & Friends Association for inviting me here today. It’s truly an honor to speak with a group so dedicated to protecting one of our region’s most iconic and vulnerable historic...Read More
Letter to Governor Murphy on Palace Amusement Building Artifacts, Asbury Park
CAFRA Permit No. 1303-03-0001.2 Support for Preservation and Public Display of Palace Amusement Building Artifacts, Asbury Park Governor Murphy: On behalf of Preservation New Jersey and community advocates, we are writing to express...Read More
Cemetery Stewardship Series: Whispers from the Grave
Join the Cranbury Historical and Preservation Society on October 11, 2025, from 1-4 PM for Whispers from the Grave, a special event celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution. Walk among the gravesites at Brainerd Cemetery and listen...Read More
