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. […]
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Art of the Witness Stones Project
Eighth grade students from Timberlane Middle School worked with the Witness Stones Project and the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum to memorialize three enslaved people from Central New Jersey: Friday […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
