Building the Volendam Windmill in Holland Township
Hunterdon Land Trust preserved 127 acres of the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree Farm in Holland Township in 2017 to ensure it would remain farmland for generations to come. This farm is also the [...]
Hunterdon Land Trust Farmers’ Market
COVID-19 Operations Protocol
To offer a safe shopping experience, Hunterdon Land Trust has created a list of market safety protocols during the Covid-19 outbreak. We ask you to review these protocols before visiting us. Copies will [...]
Preserved Kingwood Farm a Peaceful Place
Near A Devil of a Neighbor
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’ [...]
Hunterdon Land Trust Earns National Recognition
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 [...]
Reminiscences of the Kase Family Revisited
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 [...]
Podcast: Tour the Dvoor Farm
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 [...]
The Case Family Leaves 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 [...]
Milk Shortage Caused by Famous Trial Sends Dvoor Brothers West
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 [...]
‘Frolics’ on the Case Farm
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 [...]
Farm Ownership Changed Hands Multiple Times in Post-Civil War Era
(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 [...]