Chester Historical Society

Newsletters

November 2021 Newsletter - Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Chester Volunteer Fire Company, The Pleistocene (Ice Age) of Chester, NJ, and The History of the Chester Furnace Historic Site

May 2021 Newsletter Announcing YouTube Channel, The Chester Historic and Notable Places Quilt, images, The Chester Bicentennial Quilt, images, Quilts Quiz, Strolling Historic Chester Stroll #1 Map

CHS November 2020 Newsletter: Chester's Rockefeller Center, Martha Brookes Hutcheson, Larry Lowenthal 1940-2020, Chester Covid Update

CHS News & Views May 2020- Cumulative Covid-19 in Chester, Signs of the Times-Coping with Covid-19 in Chester, Charles E. Tippett -The Bottles and The Man, Chester Furnace Historic Site Update

CHS November 2019 News & Views: CHS Architectural Preservation Awards - Luse Tavern to The Maple Shop a 275 Year History -History of the Kay Environmental Center - Chester Historical Society - 1969 The First Year - Thanks to Mayor Hovenand Asdal - Recap of the CHS Annual Meeting 9-22-19

CHS Newsletter June 2019: CHS kicks off 50th Anniversary Celebrations with new logo, Happy Birthday Chester Area Pool, Magnificent 7 - Notable Historic Chester Women: Abeles, Barker, Call, Hutcheson, Kay, Smith and Topping, Cabin Fever and RR Extravaganza images, Isaac Corwin House on the 10 Most Endangered Historic Places List

CHS Newsletter December 2018 Conclusion of the Increidble Journey of the Black River Playhouse, The Great War Rememberin Roy and Albert, Captain James Tomkins, and scenes from the Annual Meeting

June 2018 Newsletter: The Incredible Journey of the Black River Playhouse Acts 1&2, Carl Kleiber-Farmer and Inventor, A Day in the Life at the Outdoor Bell Labs Chester with Bill Sturzenegger

November 2017 Newsletter: Cooper Mill History- Good-bye Ivins, Annual Meeting, and Sunnyside Update

May 2017 Newsletter: Saga of Sunnyside, Pegasus, Chester Furnace, Seward's Hill, Bell Labs Chester 1950's

December 2016 Newsletter: Chester Railroad, Jack Hyde DQ, Erik Lassen Soccer, Bell Labs Chester 1940's, Annual Meeting

June 2016 Newsletter: Growing up in Chester 1950's, The Hedges Mine, 10 Parker Rd House History, Bell Labs Chester Introduction

December 2015 Newsletter: WJ Taylor and the Chester Furnace, Deacon Cramer House, Chester Furnace Historic Site, Summer Picnic and Holiday Party

April 2015 Newsletter: Telephone Pole Farm, Lake Takene, Finding the Chester Furnace, Leila Topping Most Fascinating 20th Century Chester Woman, Holiday Party

October 2014 Newsletter: Cazenove's Visit, Snapshot of Chester, Chester and World War I, Marie Ruzicka, Holiday Party, Annual Meeting, Music of Jefferson

March 2014 Newsletter: Len Taylor Historian, Volunteer of the Year Anita Rhodes, Early Taverns, Patrons of Husbandry, Mystery Photo identified

Summer 2013 Newsletter

Winter 2013 Newsletter

Spring ~ 2011 Part I

Spring ~ 2011 Part II

Summer Fall 2010

Spring 2010 Newsletter

Summer/Fall ~ 2009

Chester Historical Society
PO Box 376 ~ Chester, NJ 07930

Phone: (908) 866-6717
chester.historical.society@gmail.com

Preserving the history of Chester, N.J.