Tag: #MercerCoNJ
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‘Cuffee Voorhees!’: Timberlane Students, Descendants, and Community Unite to Honor a Life Once Lost to History
By Seth Siditsky on MercerMe.com on June 6, 2025 For more than a century, the life of Cuffee Voorhees—an enslaved man turned Union soldier—remained largely hidden from the historical record. But on Friday, Timberlane Middle School students, together with his descendants and community leaders, gave his story a place of honor in the Hopewell Valley.…
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Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum Hosts Black History Month Events
By Tokz Gabriel, Jr. in Tap Into Hillsborough on January 20, 2025 SKILLMAN, NJ – The Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum, central New Jersey’s first dedicated Black history museum, will host a series of special events in honor of Black History Month in February. Programs will include live theatrical performances, a birthday celebration for Frederick Douglass, and a…
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Timberlane Middle School Remembers the Enslaved of Hopewell Valley
Students from Timberlane Middle School gathered the community to share their recovered history of Nance and her family. We invite you to watch the ceremony and discover the children’s artwork and essays by clicking the image below.
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Student Artwork Exhibit in Somerville, New Jersey
By the Hopewell Valley Regional School District on January 20,2024 We are very pleased to share the news that student artwork from the 2022 and 2023 Witness Stones Project is now on display at the Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Gallery on the first floor of the county administration building (20 Grove Street in Somerville).…
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Witness Stones Project Students Recognized by Hopewell Valley Historical Society
By Amie Rukenstein on MercerMe.com on October 3, 2022 At its annual meeting on Sunday, September 18 at the Watershed Institute, the Hopewell Valley Historical Society announced award winners and attendees were treated to a talk about the historic Drake house and its most famous inhabitant, Muriel Gardiner Buttinger, who went to Europe to meet…
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Friday Truehart, Once Enslaved in Hopewell, Commemorated in Witness Stone Project Ceremony
By Ambreen Ali in MercerMe.com on April 30, 2022 Timberlane Middle School became the first in the state to partake in a project that culminated on Thursday with the placement of a permanent brass stone in Hopewell Boro to honor the life of an enslaved individual. Through the Witness Stones Project, eighth grade students have…
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Witness Stones Project Comes to New Jersey to Honor, Remember Enslaved Teen
By Michael Mancuso for NJ Advance Media for NJ.com on April 28, 2022 More than 240 years ago, in Charleston, South Carolina, a 13-year-old African American boy named Friday Trueheart was separated from his mother Dinah, when their enslaver, the Rev. Oliver Hart, came north to New Jersey and took the young teen with him.…
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Witness Stones Installation Ceremony: Honoring Friday Truehart
We invite you to watch the program below and to read the program here.
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Students from Timberlane Middle School Honor Friday Truehart
April 28, 2022 Students from Timberlane Middle School gathered today to honor Friday Truehart. This is the capstone of work they have been doing this spring with the Witness Stones Project. The have shared their work on their website. We invite you to visit to learn more.
