Aerial view of the newly preserved Goeckeler Farm. Photo by Jarred Goeckeler. KINGWOOD -- You would be hard pressed to find a more peaceful place than William and Susan Goeckelers’ [...]
Horseshoe Bend Preserve in Kingwood Township. One thing that unites us as a nation is land: Americans strongly support protecting the places they love. Since 1996, Hunterdon Land Trust has [...]
In the September 1891 edition of The Jerseyman, a locally published historical magazine, author Elias Voseller jotted down the below retrospect of the family of Johan Philip Kase (later Anglicized to Case). We [...]
Ariel Hylton created this podcast tour of the Dvoor Farm House for her Girl Scout Gold Project. She is the granddaughter of Melvin Dvoor and great-granddaughter of Jacob Dvoor, who purchased the farm [...]
(Continuing our series on the history of the Dvoor Farm by looking at the last Case family member to farm there. Above: Catherine Pownall Ballance Case, wife of John Case.) The historic Case-Dvoor [...]
You might not expect two New Jersey farmers visiting the Midwest to get chased down by reporters for “a good story,” but that’s exactly what happened to George and Jacob Dvoor in early [...]
If you lived in Hunterdon County in the late 1700s, you likely would have attended several "frolics" a year. Frolics were a social custom at that time. The basic premise was if your [...]
(Continuing our series on the history of the Case-Dvoor Farm) John Case had fallen on hard times in 1860. In June of that year, Sheriff Robert Thatcher seized the then 82.93-acre property for [...]
(We continue with our story of the history of the Case-Dvoor Farm by looking at Philip Cases and his efforts to farm the land in the 18th century. To read about Johan Philip [...]
(Part 1 of an ongoing series: The historic Case-Dvoor Farmstead, which serves as the Hunterdon Land Trust’s headquarters, tells a fascinating story of our county’s agricultural heritage, local architecture from the mid-18th century, [...]