Name: North Jersey’s Trolley Era via Model and Memorabilia at the Old Station Museum
Start: 2022-08-28T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-08-28T16:00:00-04:00
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6/25- Closing Day

On June 16, 2022June 16, 2022In News

Summer Closing Saturday, June 25 from 1:00-4:00pm The Mahwah Museum will be closing for the summer after Saturday, June 25 to prepare for an exciting fall season on Saturday. In the meantime, we encourage you to check out more about what we are doing at the Old Station Museum over the next few months!

6/26- Old Station Museum Summer Hours

On June 16, 2022July 5, 2022In Old Station Museum

Summer at the Old Station Museum Sunday, June 26 from 2:00-4:00pm The Old Station Museum, located at 1871 Old Station Lane adjacent to the Mahwah Train, will be open from 2:00-4:00pm on Sundays from June 26th through September 26th! The Mahwah Museum, in conjunction with the North Jersey Electric Railway Historical Society and Liberty Historic...

From Mahwah to Moscow – North Jersey’s Trolley Era via Model and Memorabilia

On June 16, 2022July 6, 2022In Exhibit, History, Old Station Museum

From Mahwah to Moscow – North Jersey’s Trolley Era via Model and Memorabilia Presented at the Old Station Museum, 1871 Old Station Lane Sundays 2:00-4:00pm, starting June 26th In an era before most people could afford automobiles, the trolley provided economical mass transit. Dreamt to run from Suffern through Paterson, the North Jersey Rapid Transit...

Fall 2022- Corn- Simply A-Maize-ing

On May 23, 2022July 21, 2022In Upcoming Event

Corn- Simply A-Maize-ing Presented at the Ringwood Library Rescheduled – Fall 2022 Registration Information Below Corn, once called maize, is an ancient New World grass, grain, vegetable highly valued by our Native North Americans. Come learn the fascinating history of corn and its folklore from ancient times to today’s modern farmers in New Jersey with...

May 24- Mann v. Ford Film & Discussion

On April 29, 2022April 29, 2022In Upcoming Event

Mann v. Ford Film & Discussion Presented at the Ringwood Library Tuesday, May 24 at 6:00-8:00 pm The documentary film MANN v. FORD follows the Ramapough Indians and their legal team as they take on Ford and the EPA battling to secure a healthy future for their children. There will be a panel discussion following...

April 30- Women of the Ramapough Lenape Nation (with Ringwood Library)

On April 6, 2022April 8, 2022In Upcoming Event

Women of the Ramapough Lenape Nation Presented at the Ringwood Library Saturday, April 30 from 2:00-4:00pm Registration Information Below This afternoon event features the screening of a short documentary film that reveals a creative collaboration between artist Lisa Levart and women from the Ramapough Lenape Nation. A panel discussion will follow the screening with the...

May 14- Native Plants and Ecologically Based Garden Practices (with Ringwood Library)

On March 25, 2022March 25, 2022In Upcoming Event

Native Plants and Ecologically Based Garden Practices with Tina Yi Presented at the Ringwood Library Saturday, May 14 @ 11:00am- 12:00pm Registration Information Below Planning a Garden? Do you want easy maintenance? Do you want to support pollinators? Do you want to attract birds? Join Sustainable Ringwood/Green Team to learn about landscaping for a healthy environment. There will be...

April 21- Guns and Ankers for Land: Native American Land Transfers (with Ringwood Library)

On March 21, 2022April 23, 2022In History, Upcoming Event

Guns and Ankers for Land: Native American Land Transfers with Joseph A. Grabas Presented at the Ringwood Library Thursday, April 21 @ 6:00-8:00pm Registration Information Below The Lenape people inhabited the land we call New Jersey for 12,000 years before the arrival of the Europeans. The land records contain some of the earliest written accounts...

May 9- The Ramapough in Mahwah in the 19th Century

On March 16, 2022May 9, 2022In Historian, History, Upcoming Event, Virtual Event

The Ramapough in Mahwah in the 19th Century with Tom Dunn Monday, May 9 at 7:30 pm Presented in-person & online. Registration required. Tom Dunn, a former president of the Mahwah Museum, has spent decades studying land deeds in the county archives to document the Ramapough families in Green Mountain Valley. Families such as the...

May 21- The Anatomy of “Lover:” A Recreation of Les Paul’s First Hit

On March 16, 2022May 21, 2022In Les Paul, Upcoming Event, Virtual Event

The Anatomy of Lover: A Recreation of Les Paul’s First Hit with Sean McClowry Saturday, May 21 at 11:00 am Presented in-person & online. Registration required. Lover has been chosen as the hit to focus on as it was Les’ first hit and was made on the Lathe, which we have on exhibit. Sean has...

March 26- The Life and Times of Blandina Kirstede Bayard with Nancy Gibbs

On February 24, 2022March 26, 2022In History

The Life and Times of Blandina Kirstede Bayard with Nancy Gibbs Saturday, March 26 at 11:00am Presented in-person & online. Blandina Kirstede Bayard, known for establishing an Indian trading post on the banks of the Ramapo River in Mahwah in 1700, is regarded as one of New Jersey’s first female entrepreneurs even though she saw...

Save the Caboose!

On January 11, 2022March 7, 2022In Uncategorized

History of Erie Caboose 04940 The story of Erie Caboose 04940 begins with an order for 25 Northeast-style cabooses for the Erie Railroad in 1929. The order was placed with the Magor Car Company located in Clifton, New Jersey. Magor was a leader in manufacturing freight cars for the major railroads. Northeast-style cabooses were short...

This Day In History

Disasters: 1958 Emergency services were fully involved in assisting the victims of a major wreck on the Erie Railroad. A head-on collision of a westbound mail train and an eastbound train, No. 50, shifted to the westbound tracks because of a freight train on the eastbound tracks, resulted in five deaths and injuries to nearly 40 passengers and crewmen. The accident, blamed on a failure of the towerman in the Suffern yards, occurred at the old Sterlington Station between Hillburn and Sloatsburg. That loss of life was not greater was because of the prompt work of the more than twenty rescue and ambulance squads including those from Mahwah, Ramsey, Allendale, and Upper Saddle River. Four Ramsey doctors and one from Mahwah also assisted at the scene. The accident took place at about 6:50 am. The first patient, the conductor of the westbound train, arrived at Good Samaritan Hospital at 7:05. By the time most of the doctors arrived at the scene at 8:00 am there was nothing to do. All injured patients had been treated or taken to either Good Samaritan or Tuxedo Hospitals. Dr. R. W. Delaphaine, of Mahwah, said there were too many doctors and ambulances at the site. Some better estimation of the scope of the disaster should have been made before so many were called. Sister Miriam Thomas, the Administrator of the Good Samaritan Hospital, however, had nothing but praise for the cooperative spirit shown by both doctors and ambulances, and for the extra help received from the Nyack and Valley Hospitals, and firms in Teterboro and Bethlehem Pennsylvania which made their private planes available in the emergency to transport patients who wished to be treated at their home hospitals. (Bristow) (64); 1913 A severe storm caused much local damage. A dozen large maples were blown down on Franklin Turnpike pulling down electric and telephone wires with them. A house under construction in Cragmere was blown down flat. (Bristow) (109)
People: 1943 Corp. Stanley B. Appelgate, home on a fifteen-day furlough to visit his parents, was given what the Ramsey Journal described as a "surprise roast" by some of his friends. Corp. Applegate was serving in a military police unit at the Del Valley Army Air Force base in Austin, Texas. The list of guests, mostly young women and some of their parents, did not apparently make elaborate insulting remarks to the guest of honor. Instead, this was a hot dog roast. (Bristow) (79)

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North Jersey’s Trolley Era via Model and Memorabilia at the Old Station Museum

North Jersey’s Trolley Era via Model and Memorabilia at the Old Station Museum

North Jersey’s Trolley Era via Model and Memorabilia at the Old Station Museum

6/25- Closing Day

6/26- Old Station Museum Summer Hours

From Mahwah to Moscow – North Jersey’s Trolley Era via Model and Memorabilia

Fall 2022- Corn- Simply A-Maize-ing

May 24- Mann v. Ford Film & Discussion

April 30- Women of the Ramapough Lenape Nation (with Ringwood Library)

May 14- Native Plants and Ecologically Based Garden Practices (with Ringwood Library)

April 21- Guns and Ankers for Land: Native American Land Transfers (with Ringwood Library)

May 9- The Ramapough in Mahwah in the 19th Century

May 21- The Anatomy of “Lover:” A Recreation of Les Paul’s First Hit

March 26- The Life and Times of Blandina Kirstede Bayard with Nancy Gibbs

Save the Caboose!