13. Strolling Through History, Cemetery-Style

     The historic graveyards throughout Mercer County have a great many stories to tell -- and some can be found easily by visiting the Political Graveyard on-line. This fascinating resource is a work-in-progress - but, already, you can learn more about some of the leaders, the thinkers, and the movers/shakers who helped to shape our County and our Towns. Check it out.

1. Getting Mercer's 175th "On the Map"

1846 map of Mercer County, NJ - first official map made of the 'new' County after its formation in 1838

 

          Mercer 175's inaugural event, the Mapping Mercer exhibit at The Gallery at Mercer County Community College was a great success. Thank you so much to all the researchers, graphics artists, and historians who helped out with the exhibition, and to the generous folks who loaned historic maps for the exhibit, including Sally Lane and Sam Graf, the Hightstown Memorial Library, and Paul Smith of Framesmith Gallery in Princeton. We hope to post an online version of the exhibit later in the year, and will be showing copies of the 1875 Mercer County Atlas pages that were featured in the show at the upcoming (May 11) NJ History Fair at Washington Crossing State Park. A special thank you to the featured speakers at the exhibit: Donna Lewis and Kathleen Sar, Director and GIS specialist, respectively, of the County's Planning Division; Paul Pogorzelski, Hopewell Township's administrator and engineer; and Maxine Lurie, Ph.D., and Michael Siegel, editor and cartographer, respectively, of Mapping New Jersey: An Evolving Landscape.