Princeton NJ Events

HCHS Walking Tour - Historic Flemington

Saturday May 9, 2026
11:00 AM

Ever wonder what downtown Flemington looked like around 1900 when horse-drawn carriages rolled down an unpaved Main Street? Join us for the first-ever Asher Stryker Walking Tour on Saturday, May 9 at 11 a.m., led by lifelong resident and Hunterdon County Historical Society Trustee President Peter Goodell. The walking tour will feature: • Stryker’s rare 1900s photographs presented alongside modern views of Main and Mine streets. • Fascinating tales of vanished or altered buildings -- and the town’s movers and shakers who once lived in them. • How the downtown has evolved in the past 120-plus years. The tour will begin in front of the Doric House Museum at 114 Main Street in Flemington. The tour is free for HCHS members, and costs $10 for nonmembers. To reserve your spot, email hunterdonhistoryadm@gmail.com. Rain date is Sunday, May 17 at 11 a.m. 

"These Are Our Stories": Confronting Racial Stereotypes with Family Photographs

Saturday May 9, 2026
2:00 PM

The Trent House Association presents a talk by Professor Mary Shelley Trent on family photograph albums of 19th-century African American women. This talk will be held via Zoom on Saturday, May 9, 2026, at 2 pm. More information and the registration link HERE.

Family photograph albums are often overlooked in studies of national and cultural history, often deemed inconsequential. However, these objects have been important tools for asserting identity and preserving family history. ?For 19th century African American women living in an era of racial oppression and derogatory popular imagery, controlling their and their family's representation was important. In this presentation, Professor Mary Shelley Trent will show images and discuss stories from two nineteenth-century photographic albums created by African American women: Ellen Craft and Arabella Chapman. Craft, who famously escaped enslavement, and Chapman, born free, used their albums to challenge stereotypes and document their families' respectability and stability. Passed down through female descendants who added their own annotations, these albums became living documents of intergenerational memory.

Building Princeton: America250 Edition

Saturday May 9, 2026
3:00 PM

Updike Farmstead, 354 Quaker Road

Visualize the town and campus as you’ve never seen them before! Working from photographs, teams recreate iconic Princeton structures out of LEGO building blocks. Choose among more than 50 historic structures, famous residences, community buildings, and houses of worship to construct a scale model. Additional 18th century buildings have been added for the Semiquincentennial. When complete, models are placed on a 30-foot map of Princeton, providing an amazing aerial view.

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