April 25. 2026 (rain date April 26, 2026)

Giant Yard Sale

The Brick Township Historical Society will hold its giant yard sale from 8 am to 2 pm at its Havens Homestead Museum property, 521 Herbertsville Rd. There will be a vast array of reasonably priced merchandise, a large homemade bake sale and specials in the Lizzie Herbert Gift Shop.  There will also be a NJ licensed gold/silver dealer to buy your unwanted metals.

You can access the parking lot by the blue sign that says “Havens Farm” 150 ft. east of the museum.  There is also a second parking lot just past the first one.

For more information please call 732-785-2500.

January 13. 2026

Meeting / Program

The Brick Township Historical Society will hold its first meeting of the new year on January 13, 2026 at 7:30 pm at the Herbertsville Firehouse, 601 Herbertsville Rd., Brick.  Professor Melissa Ziobro, the Monmouth University Director of Public History and also curator of the Bruce Springsteen Archives, will present the program.  Ziobro’s program is called “Born to Run and The American Experience.” She will give a close look at “Born to Run’s” historical context, lyrical depth and cultural resonance.  We will learn why it continues to speak so powerfully across the decades to different generations.

Free admission; open to the public.  Please park in the rear of the firehouse and enter by the door on the right on ground level.

November 11. 2025

Meeting With Program

The Brick Township Historical Society will hold a meeting at the Herbertsville Firehouse, 601 Herbertsville Rd.  Professor and historian Paul Zigo, the director of the WW II Studies Institute, will present a program called “Vietnam: the Early Years – Origins and Escalation.”  The session will explore the historical context and early developments that led to the escalation of the Vietnam conflict.

Admission is free, and the public is welcome.  Please park in the back of the firehouse and enter by the door on the right on ground level.

September 9th, 2025

Meeting

The Brick Township Historical Society will hold a meeting with a program at the Herbertsville Firehouse, 601 Herbertsville Rd., Brick.  Historian and professor Paul Zigo, will present a program on Vietnam, covering the years from 1964 to 1973.  Zigo is the director of the WW II Studies Institute.

Admission is free, and the public is welcome.  Please park in the rear of the firehouse and enter by the door on the right on ground level.

August 9th and 10th, 2025

Cival War Encampment

The Brick Township Historical Society will sponsor the 61st New York Volunteer Regiment for a Civil War Encampment at its Havens Homestead Museum property, 521 Herbertsville Rd.  Visiting hours for the public are August 9 from 10 am to 3 pm and August 10 from 10 am to 2 pm.  Admission is free and donations are greatly appreciated.

The soldiers will interact with the public, march, fire guns and explain what life was like during an encampment.  They sleep in tents and make their own food over a fire pit.

Society members will be grilling and selling hamburgers, frankfurters and soft drinks.  They will hold a homemade bake sale, and the Lizzie Herbert Gift Shop will be open with specials.  Tours of the museum are also available.

Parking is in a lot 150 ft. east of the museum accessed by a driveway with a blue sign that reads, “Havens Farm.”