On Oct. 5, the Harrison Township Historical Society launched a new series of concerts and lectures for the Fall, as well as reopening its featured exhibition, “Last Call: Taverns and Temperance”, at the award-winning Old Town Hall Museum.
“Last Call” explores the colorful history of local taverns (both respectable and notorious), patent medicines, the temperance movement, prohibition, bootlegging and winemaking through an extraordinary collection of artifacts, images and documents, many of which will be exhibited for the first time. The exhibit experience is further enhanced by a series of recorded narratives drawn from local history with tales of “tavern crawls” before the Civil War, a raid on a bootleg still in Richwood, and a story about drunken pigs in Mullica Hill, all accessible by scanning QR codes in the gallery. The museum is open on Saturdays from, 1 to 4 p.m., and continues through Dec. 7. Admission is free.
Both the exhibition and program series are funded in part by the Gloucester County Cultural and Heritage Commission at Rowan College of South Jersey, in partnership with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State and the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey Historical Commission/Department of State.
Old Town Hall Museum is located at 62 S. Main St. in the heart of Mullica Hill’s National Register Historic District. Richwood Academy Cultural Center is at 836 Lambs Rd., Richwood. For information on the Society and all its exhibitions and programs visit HarrisonHistorical.com or call 856-478-4949.
