HSR’s Board asks our supporters and friends and everyone who loves Riverton’s history to mark your calendars and …
Come out to Borough Council Tuesday 11/18/2025 at 6:30 in the Riverton School gym!
This is an exciting moment for Riverton.
Getting many of the same protections enjoyed by many other historic New Jersey towns has been a two-step process.
After three years’ work at broad consensus-building among many constituencies, Riverton is in the home stretch.
In this time, the Mayors and Council supported two clear standards to safeguard our Historic District:
“No more teardowns!”
and
“Lose no more Historic Character!”
The first one (to stop teardowns) has now been in place for almost two years and we have not lost a single historic structure in that time.
Now it’s high time to complete the job in a way that is right for Riverton, because …
… we are still completely unprotected from shortsighted alterations to historic structures, which can seriously damage the character of any Historic District.
Borough Council has introduced a sensible ordinance that we agree will be great for Riverton and we urge your support.
It’s all discussed on this page on the Borough’s website:
Read all about it there and on the pages it links to. You’ll see that it includes email addresses for the Mayor and the other members of Council’s subcommittee which drafted the Ordinance.
Please write to them with your comments and (hopefully) support. And it always helps to show up in person, so please, mark your calendars and …
Come out to Borough Council Tuesday 11/18/2025 at 6:30 in the Riverton School gym.
Lose no more historic character!
Thank you!
“Discovering and Retelling Riverton’s Stories”
