Fall Harvest Festival at Red Bank Battlefield

Free Family Fun and Activities

Learn about the vital role the Pennsylvania Navy played at the Battle of Red Bank!

See Batoe Moon,an 18th century sloop, and meet her crew.

Cider Making Demonstration

Colonial Food Preservation and Hearth Cooking Demonstration

Plants for Sale for Fall Gardening

Straw Bale Maze

Live Period Folk Music

Colonial Conjuror Magic Show

Free Kids Crafts & Games

Farm Animal Petting Zoo

September 17, 2023 from noon to 4 pm

Happy Trails-Jo Ann

Edgar Allen Poe Event in October

Gloucester County Historical Society Presents:

An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe. Helen McKenna-Uff as Edgar Allan Poe offers us an evening of spine-chilling storytelling and insight into Poe's life. This event will be held at Woodbury Friends Meetinghouse, 124 N. Broad St. Parking is available in the GCHS lots or the County lot on Hunter St.

$25 Tuesday, Oct 17 6:30 PM

You can buy your tickets online on their website set up for the purpose

https://www.gchsnj.org/shop/poe/

For more information call 856-848-8531

The oldest road in America

"The oldest road in the United States was a 1,300 mile road. It was constructed on order of King Charles II of England and was built between 1650 and 1735. Long before there was a United States it ran through his colonies and it ran through New Jersey. Sure there were little paths and dirt roads. But this was a road as in what we’d call a highway today, eventually running all the way from Massachusetts to South Carolina, long before the concept of automobiles was here.

Sure there were little paths and dirt roads. But this was a road as in what we’d call a highway today, eventually running all the way from Massachusetts to South Carolina, long before the concept of automobiles was here. Only In Your State calls it the oldest road in America.

At first it was used by post riders to deliver mail. Later it was smoothed and widened so that stagecoaches and horse-drawn wagons could travel it. Basically it was the first concept of what would be the interstate highway system. Eventually a real highway system grew. And much of The King’s Highway became Route 1. Yes, Route 1 is part of the oldest highway in the United States."

Every Sunday, I drive from my house, 4 houses off of Kings' Highway, to Woodbury to the Woodbury Friends Meeting. Our Meeting is 300 years old! and it sits on a gentle hill operlooking the oldest road in America. I already knew that, but Ijust received a local news e-mail to which I subscribe and it offered the above confirmation of that fact so I thought I would share it. I have driven the Kings Highway all the way down to Greenwich on the Bay. It is a wonderful drive, I highly recommend you take a ride on it and follow it either North to Burlington, or South to Greenwich, and see all the cool towns along the way.