May Presentation on New Jersey’s Lighthouses- Annual Meeting May 4
- Reminders – plaques, notepaper, self-guided walking tour
Gaslight News – February 1987
Windmills, Etc. Presentation in March- Update: Morgan Cemetery, plaques, notepaper
- Yesterday… Late 1800s Expansion of Riverton and Palmyra
Gaslight News – November 1986
November Program: Toy Train Collecting- January Program: Covered Dish Supper followed by “Lure of the Pine Barrens”
- Update: Morgan Cemetery
- Reminder: Dues are to be paid on or before November 1st, each year.
- Yesterday… Local history – 1848-1917
Gaslight News – September 1986
October Program: Dr. Dean H. LeFavor’s Home Movies- Report on Morgan Cemetery Hearings
- Walking Tour folders revised, printed and depleted; More on order
- Yesterday’s columns of local news make delightful reading
Gaslight New – May 1986
May talk and film Miss Liberty ’86- Annual Meeting May 5
- Update: Newspaper microfilm, Morgan Cemetery, Walking Tour
- Yesterday… Events of Past Springs
Gaslight New – February 1986
March Program: A Tale of Three Cities- May Program: Statue or Liberty
- Update: Newspaper microfilm project, Morgan Cemetery, Walking Tour
- Yesterday… News from the Palmyra Record
Gaslight New – November 1985
November Friday Night Movie: “TOP HAT” starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers- November Program: Privateers of the New Jersey Coast
- January Covered-Dish meeting/program: Sherlock Holmes and Victorian Times
- Update: Newspaper microfilming project, Morgan Cemetery, Walking Tour revised and will be printed
- Congratulations to all who joined together to observe the 75th birthday of Riverton Public School
- Yesterday… Local news of past winters
Gaslight News – September 1985
October presentation: The Riverside Line- November Program: Privateers of the New Jersey Coast
- Updates: Romance of Riverton film shown, three plaques awarded, New Era Filming Project, Morgan Cemetery, Walking Tour, progress on Historic District
- Yesterday… Items gleaned from razing of 307 Bank
Click here to view #039 Gaslight News September 1985
Readers: If anyone knows where that Romance of Riverton 16mm movie film is, we would love to have it transferred to a higher resolution video than the one we processed from a VHS videotape.
Gaslight News – May 1985
In The Barnegat Bay Tradition – May program- Friday Night at the Movies – May 31
- Updates: Germantown Trip successful, Thomas Ave. gaslight back in service, plaques for 3 houses certified, Morgan Cemetery, Baptist Home at 307 Bank, New Era Filming Project,
- Other notes: June 1985 marks the 15th Anniversary of the first meeting of the HSR
- Yesterday… Various topics, including drownings, first Memorial Day Parade 1884, 1892 ground broken for Catholic Church, riverbank renewal project did not materialize
Gaslight News – February 1985
March program: Edison’s Ogdensburg Mines- Annual Meeting May 6
- Updates: expansion of the Baptist Home, neglect of Morgan Cemetery, Historic District, Plaques, progress on filming New Era issues
- Birthdays: Riverton School 75 years, Christ Episcopal Church
of Palmyra and Central Baptist Church of Riverton-Palmyra 100 years - Yesterday… news selected from The New Era 1897-1950
- Note that this issue is another of several donated by Mr. And Mrs. Edward Hartman.
