Past Events
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September 10, 2024
Meeting & Program on Local History
The Brick Township Historical Society will hold a meeting at the Herbertsville Firehouse, 601 Herbertsville Rd. Brick township historian Gene Donatiello, a founding member of the society and curator of the Havens Homestead Museum, will present a program on local Brick history.
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.
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September 9, 2024
Day Trip to the Doo Wop Experience, Etc in Wildwood
The Brick Township Historical Society is sponsoring a trip to the DOO WOP MUSEUM EXPERIENCE and the Neon Sign Garden, the WILDWOOD HISTORICAL BUILDING and adding a step-on guide for a city tour. Learn about the doo wop culture, the Art Deco architecture and everything else that made Wildwood famous in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Lunch at the MUD HEN BREWERY is included, plus all admissions, transportation and gratuities. Bus leaves from the Laurel Square Shopping Center, 1930 Rt. 70 in Brick. For availability/reservation please call 732-785-2500 (Havens Homestead Museum) and leave your name and phone number clearly and slowly. The tour leader will call you back.
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September 7, 2024 (Rain date September 8, 2024)
Ice Cream Social Featuring “The Last Whippoorwill”
The Brick Township Historical Society will hold its Annual Ice Cream Social at its Havens Homestead Museum property, 521 Herbertsville Rd. A featured attraction this time will be “The Last Whippoorwill,” a well known local bluegrass band. Society members will make and sell various ice cream treats, such as, sundaes, root beer floats and ice cream sodas. Soft drinks will also be available for purchase. The ice cream is being donated by SUNDAE’S of Point Pleasant.
Attendees are welcome to bring a picnic lunch (no grills please) and enjoy the event. Seating is available on a first come first serve basis, but people are welcome to bring their own folding chairs.
Parking is in a lot 150 east of the museum accessed by a driveway with a sign that says “Havens Farm.”
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August 10th and 11th, 2024
Civil War Encampment
The Brick Township Historical Society will sponsor the 61st NY Volunteer Regiment for a Civil War Encampment at its Havens Homestead Museum property, 521 Herbertsville Rd. Visiting hours for the public are August 10 from 10 am to to 3 pm and August 11 from 10 am to 2 pm.
Admission is free and donations are greatly appreciated.
The soldiers will march, fire guns, interact with the public 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 and frankfurters and soft drinks. There will be a homemade bake sale, and the Lizzie Herbert Gift Shop will feature specials. Tours of the museum will be available.
Parking is in a lot 150 ft. east of the museum accessed by a driveway with a blue sign that says “Havens Farm.”
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June 11th
Meeting
The Brick Township Historical Society will host a meeting about the Civil War at 7:30 pm at the Herbertsville Firehouse, 601 Herbertsville Rd. Jim Heine, the society president, who is also a Civil War reenactor and amateur historian, will present a program called “The Heroes that Saved Washington, D.C.” This will focus on the 14th NJ Infantry in which many men from Brick served during the war. Jim also has many funny, intriguing, and some sad human interest stories from the Civil War to share.
Free admission; the public is welcome. Please park in the rear of the firehouse and enter by the door on the right on ground level.
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May 4th and 5th
Art Show at the Museum in Memory of JoAnne Zezula
The Brick Township Historical Society will honor the late Joanne Zezula who was a well known local artist, history teacher and a founding member of the the Society with some of her works and some from her artist friends. This will be at the Havens Homestead Museum, 521 Herbertsville Rd. on May 4 and 5 from 10 am to 2 pm on both days. Admission is free. Donations are gratefully accepted.
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April 20th, 2024 (Rain Date April 21, 2024)
Giant Annual Yard Sale
The Brick Township Historical Society will hold its Annual Giant Yard Sale at its Havens Homestead Museum property, 521 Herbertsville Rd. There will be a vast selection of reasonably priced merchandise plus an array of costume jewelry. A NJ licensed dealer will be available to buy unwanted gold/silver. The society will host a homemade bake sale. The Lizzie Herbert Gift Shop will have specials.
Admission is free.
Parking is in a lot 150 ft. east of the museum accessed by a blue sign that says “Havens Farm.”
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March 12th, 2024
Meeting
The Brick Township Historical Society will hold a meeting at 7:30 pm at the Herbertsville Firehouse, 601 Herbertsville Rd. Daniel J. Lieb of the NJ Historical Divers Association will present a program about the mystery of a local shipwreck and how it was identified. A careful review of the artifacts recovered over the years by area divers and an exhaustive search of public records was needed before positive identification of the wreck could be ascertained.
Meetings are open to the public. Please enter the firehouse in the rear by the door on the right on ground level.
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December 9, 2023 – Order by November 30, 2023
Holiday Cookie Sale
The Brick Township Historical Society will be having its 3rd Annual Holiday Cookie Sale at its Havens Homestead Museum, 521 Herbertsville Rd., Brick. A one-pound decorated box of homemade cookies is $10. Cookies need to be pre-ordered by calling 732-458-6266 by Nov. 30. They can be picked up on Saturday, Dec. 9 at the museum between 10 am and Noon. They will be packed on Friday, Dec. 8, so if you call the museum (732-785-2500) that morning, it may be possible to pick them up on Friday.
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November 14, 2023
Meeting
The Brick Township Historical Society will hold a meeting 7:30 pm Nov. 14 at the Herbertsville Firehouse, 601 Herbertsville Rd. A traditional bluegrass band, “The Last Whippoorwill” will perform and present a program incorporating the history of bluegrass music. This Brick-based band includes Harry Chadwick, guitar; Jeff Propert, mandolin; Dave MacDonald, bass; Carl Baron, banjo; and Joe Fili, fiddle. They perform in the tri-state area and appeared at the Ocean County Fair on July 14th. The title of their CD, “In The Tradition,” says it all.
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.
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October 7, 2023
LIBERTY HALL MUSEUM
The Brick Township Historical Society will sponsor a trip to LIBERTY HALL MUSEUM at Kean University on Oct. 7. This museum is a historic home where many influential people lived. It was originally a fourteen-room Georgian-style house built in 1772. Today it is a fifty-room Victorian Italianate mansion with an array of horticulture and some of the oldest trees in NJ. Cost is $75 which includes transportation, driver gratuity and admission. Lunch is on your own at the famous HAROLD’S DELI in Edison. The bus departs and returns to Laurel Square Shopping Center, 1930 Rt. 88 in Brick. For a reservation call 732-785-2500 and leave your name and number clearly. You will be called back.