The Clinton Red Mill - Hunterdon Historical Museum
Rating: Category: Museum Location: 56 Main Street Clinton, NJ 08809 Phone Number: (908) 735-4101 Email: mailto:ClintonNJ@TreLabs.com Web site: www.clintonnj.com
You will often see works of art of the Red Mill located in Clinton.
The Museum is open to the public from early April to mid-October and hosts numerous special activities including educational programs, tours, concerts, living history reenactments, antique and craft shows as well as popular annual events such as Harvest Jubilee and Haunted Mill. Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10 am - 4 pm, and Sundays, 12 noon - 5 pm. Admissions: $4 Adults, $3 Senior Citizens, $1 Children (6 to 16 years old). Hours and admission subject to change.
The Hunterdon Historical Museum is a private non-profit educational organization that is the home of Clinton's landmark Red Mill. With over 40,000 artifacts, the Hunterdon Historical Museum chronicles more than 180 years of Hunterdon County history. The largest of the Museum's artifacts is the showpiece Red Mill. Built in 1810, the mill was used for processing wool, grist, plaster, graphite and talc, generating electricity, pumping water and even peach basket production. The "monitor", a roof line extension which was added in 1908, to accommodate new machinery, gives the mill its distinctive appearance. Today, the four floors of the Mill showcase artifacts of Hunterdon County's rural, agricultural, and commercial heritage.
On the Museum grounds is an 1860, one-room School House and a reproduction 18th century Log Cabin, complete with Herb Garden and stone Spring House. Nearby Carriage Sheds display a large variety of wagons, carriages, sleds, and 19th century agricultural equipment.
A significant portion of the Museum's nine acres is the home of the Mulligan Quarry. The Quarry was operated in 1848 by three Irish immigrant brothers and remained in Mulligan hands until the early 1960s. The limestone quarry is the site of many of the Museum's special events and education programs. Rolling terrain, situated above the river banks, provides relaxing lawn seating against the dramatic backdrop of 150 foot high limestone cliffs. A number of structures, dating from the 1850s to circa 1912, stand and function as interpretive and exhibit areas. These include the Quarry Office, Tenant House, (part of which interprets a turn of the century general store), a functioning Blacksmith Shop, Dynamite Shed, Worker's Shack, and Rock Screening House.
PARKING Clinton offers street parking as well as three parking lots for visitors convenience:
1. Parking lot located behind the municipal building at the intersection of Leigh St. and Route 173.
2. Parking lot located on Lower Center St. (3 hour limit)
3. Parking lot located North of Center St. at the intersection of Halstead St. and Water St.
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