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Ever wonder what downtown Flemington looked like around 1900 when horse-drawn carriages rolled down an unpaved Main Street? Join us for the first-ever Asher Stryker Walking Tour on Saturday, May 9 at 11 a.m., led by lifelong resident and HCHS Trustee President Peter Goodell.
The tour will feature:
• Stryker’s rare 1900s photographs alongside modern views of Main, Park and Mine streets.
• Fascinating tales of vanished or altered buildings -- and the town’s movers and shakers who once lived in them.
• How the downtown has evolved in the past 120-plus years
The tour will begin in front of the Doric House Museum at 114 Main Street in Flemington. After the tour, participants are invited to explore the museum’s exhibition Lindbergh’s Flemington: Businesses, Bars and Boarding Houses. The tour is free for HCHS members, and costs $10 for nonmembers.
Asher Stryker (1877-1955) owned and operated a novelty store on Flemington’s Main Street from 1928 into the early 1950s. Around 1900, he purchased a wet-emulsion camera and for the next decade photographed houses, businesses, churches, farms, schools, pastoral scenes and people of Flemington and neighboring communities. In 2021, Stryker’s daughter, the late Jean Stryker Hunt, and his grandson, Alan Hunt, donated 1,278 glass-plate negatives to HCHS.
A dedicated team of volunteers, led by HCHS Manuscript Curator Donald Cornelius, has been painstakingly preserving and digitizing Stryker’s historic images. These photos are in the process of being added to HCHS’s website for public access. Meanwhile, tour leader Goodell has spent months researching these images – identifying locations of homes and uncovering interesting facts about the people who lived there.
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114 Main St, Flemington, NJ, United States, New Jersey 08822
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