FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Caroline Halfinger, director@peachfield.org Historic barns are being taken down more often than being preserved in New Jersey. The NSCDA-NJ is pleased to announce the Burr-Deacon Barn Raising, taking place on Saturday, September 30, 2023 from 11:00-2:00pm at Peachfield, 180 Burrs Road, Westampton, NJ 08060. The rain date will be October 7, 2023Continue reading “Colonial Dames of New Jersey Announce Historic Barn Raising at Peachfield”
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NJ student, Catherine Paris, wins Congressional Seminar Essay Contest
May 2, 2022, WASHINGTON – The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America (NSCDA) is pleased to congratulate Catherine Paris, a student of Kent Place School in Summit, New Jersey, for winning the nationally held Congressional Seminar Essay Contest for an all-expense paid trip to study at the Washington Workshops Seminar in Washington, D.C.Continue reading “NJ student, Catherine Paris, wins Congressional Seminar Essay Contest”
1782 Bed Rug from Peachfield collection featured in exhibition in New Lyme, CT
The 1782 Bed Rug from the collections at Peachfield, usually situated in our master bedroom, as been featured these last few months at the “New London County Quilts and Bed Covers 1750-1825” Exhibition at the Florence Griswold Museum in New Lyme Connecticut. NSCDA-NJ President, Mary Prendergast, took a trip to the New Lyme to seeContinue reading “1782 Bed Rug from Peachfield collection featured in exhibition in New Lyme, CT”