Salem County Historical Society [NJ]
The Salem County Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Salem County, New Jersey. Collections include furniture, paintings, textiles, glass, china, silver, documents, tools, Wistarburg glass, and the Colonial Benjamin Holme tall case clock taken by the British to General Howe's headquarters in New York. Structures include a 1959 stone barn, a 19thcentury log cabin, and a museum; and styles range across Colonial, Federal and Italianate.
The society offers lectures; exhibits; specific field trip programming, designed to meet state educational standards; period rooms; a research library; traveling trunks and accompanying lesson plans for local rental; in-classroom presentations by docents; and a summer camp. The website offers a newsletter for students and teachers.