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The Friends of the Jacobus Vanderveer House Board Expands to 24
as Three Key Board Members Complete their Term

January 26, 2008 - Bedminster/Pluckemin

The organization that runs Vanderveer House, The Friends of Jacobus Vanderveer House, will reorganize Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 6:30 p.m. at Cafe Azzurro on Main Street, Peapack, New Jersey.

The group will bid good-bye to longstanding trustees, among them former president Ellen Vreeland, first vice-president Jay Petrillo, and Bedminster Mayor Robert Holtaway. Newly elected Township Committeewoman Jeanne Maass will be seated to represent the municipal government on the Friends of JVH Board.

Other new members of the board include Robin Ray, the Bedminster Township recreation supervisor, and Leslie Mole, a Bedminster Township resident.

The new board members are joining at a particularly good time in the history of the Vanderveer House restoration. The furnishings plan has just been completed and members of the furnishings committee are meeting with the New Jersey Historical Society in Newark in the next few weeks to request items from the 1772-1782 period that might have actually been in the house when it was occupied by Jacobus Vanderveer and his family.

Since Vanderveer House will also be a museum interpreting the significance of the Pluckemin Artillery Park and its brilliant commander, Gen. Henry Knox, who lived at Vanderveer House, work is moving ahead on designing those exhibits. A $17,820 grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State, enabled the JVH Board at its January meeting to hire Steve Feldman Design of Philadelphia.

The number of board members has recently been expanded from 18 to 24, and the board is currently looking to fill those expanded board slots. Candidates should be interested in historic preservation and museum stewardship.

 

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About the Vanderveer/Knox House & Museum
& the Pluckemin Artillery Cantonment

For over two centuries, the Jacobus Vanderveer House has been at the center of Bedminster Township’s rich and colorful history. The house is the last surviving building in Bedminster associated with the Vanderveer's, a family prominent in Bedminster Township history from its earliest settlement through the mid 19th century.

The Vanderveer house served as headquarters for General Henry Knox during the winter of 1778-79, when the Continental Army artillery was located in the village of Pluckemin during the Revolutionary War's Second Middlebrook Encampment. The house is the only known building still standing that was associated with the Pluckemin Artillery Cantonment. The artillery park and military academy is considered to be the first installation in America to train officers in engineering and artillery and predates the United States Military Academy at West Point (est.1802) by twenty four years.

The Vanderveer family house was later enlarged with two additions in the nineteenth century, remodeled in the twentieth century, and subsequently abandoned. The Township of Bedminster purchased the home and the surrounding area as part of River Road Park in 1989. The home has been restored by The Friends of the Jacobus Vanderveer House, a non-profit group of inspired volunteers dedicated to use the home as a museum and educational center.

Vanderveer/Knox Museum and the Friend of the Jacobus Vanderveer House in Bedminster/Pluckemin New Jersey - Home to early Dutch colonial farming, The Vanderveer family, and the Pluckemin Artillery Encampment - America's First Artillery Training Facility - the precursor to the West Point Military Academy
The Friends of the Jacobus Vanderveer House
P.O. Box 723, Bedminster, New Jersey 07921-0723
908 - 212 - 7000 ext. 611
www.jvanderveerhouse.com info@jvanderveerhouse.com
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The Friends of the Jacobus Vanderveer House received an operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, division of the Department of State.
 

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