Upcoming events

  • Joseph Bonaparte Exhibit (including hours of operation)

    • 01/25/2025
    • 11:00 AM
    • 12/31/2025
    • 4:00 PM
    • 302 Farnsworth Ave

    Meeting House  and Joseph Bonaparte Exhibit Open Hours for February and March 2025

    February 7, Friday, 5:30-8:30pm: We will be open for the Chocolate Walk

    Saturday, February 15, 11am - 2:30pm

    Saturday, February 22, 11am -  4pm

    Saturday, March 8, 11am - 4pm

    Saturday, March 15, 11am - 2:30pm

    Saturday, March 29, 11am - 2:30pm


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  • THE BHS ANNUAL HISTORY IN BLOOM GARDEN TOUR

    • 06/07/2025
    • 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
    • The Tour starts at the Meetingt House: 302 Farnsworth Ave
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Past events

03/29/2025 Lecture by Dr. Alexandra Letvin on the Paintings of Charlotte Bonaparte, Joseph's daughter
03/15/2025 Women's History Month Program about Clara Barton
02/15/2025 Black History Month Program - The Manual Training and Industrial School: Context and Curriculum
02/10/2025 BHS General Membership Meeting
02/07/2025 The DBA's Chocolate Walk
01/18/2025 Lecture by author Abigail Readlinger on "The Young Federalists"
12/07/2024 Lecture by Furniture and Clock restoration expert, Gregg Perry, on European Watergilding
11/30/2024 Bordentown City Waterfront Mural Dedication Ceremony
11/02/2024 BHS House Tour
10/19/2024 Lecture: Paintings of Joseph Bonaparte by Laura Poll
10/13/2024 "All Aboard Bordentown Railroad"
10/08/2024 BHS End of Year General Membership Meeting
10/05/2024 Bordentown City Cranberry Festival
09/26/2024 Lafayette Marker Dedication and Lectures about The Marquis
09/07/2024 International Napoleonic Society Presentation of Papers for their Mini Congress
07/12/2024 BHS' Blueberry Social
06/01/2024 BHS' Annual Garden Tour
05/18/2024 Lecture by Gregg Perry on Marquetry
05/11/2024 Lecture on Ulysses S Grant by His Great Great Grandson
04/06/2024 Lecture by Alexandra Kirtley: "Bienvenue aux États-Unis/Philadelphie: French Émigré Cabinetmakers in the US/Philadelphia
03/23/2024 Bordentown City Post Office Renaming in honor of Clara Barton
03/17/2024 Walk and Talk on the Camden and Amboy Railroad led by Pierre Lacombe
03/14/2024 Sip and Shop at Icon Boutique - an event to support the restoration of the Clara Barton Schoolhouse
02/17/2024 The Wreck of the Nellie Blye - A Storyteller Performance of the 1901 Nellie Blye Train Wreck
12/01/2023 Bordentown City Chocolate Walk
11/18/2023 Lecture - Bordentown: Where Cultural Changes in America Began
11/11/2023 Lecture about Famous Bordentown Artist, Henry Hartman
10/14/2023 Lecture: Andalusia Historic House, Gardens and Arboretum: Two Centuries Along the Delaware River
09/23/2023 Lecture on Richard Watson Gilder and his Fascinating Family
09/09/2023 Lecture on the Marquis de Lafayette by Paul Larson
07/21/2023 BHS BLUEBERRY SOCIAL
07/14/2023 Bastille Day Celebration sponsored by the BHS and the City of Bordentown
06/24/2023 The BHS Annual Garden Tour
06/11/2023 Celebration of Flag Day with a Lecture by Earl Williams
06/10/2023 Bordentown City Environmental Commission's Annual Green Fair
06/03/2023 Charles Lucien Bonaparte and the Academy of Natural Science's Bonaparte Collection - a Lecture by Ned Gilmore
05/20/2023 Bordentown Annual Street Fair
05/13/2023 Past and Future Archeology at Joseph Bonaparte's Pt. Breeze Estate - a Lecture by Dr. Rich Veit
05/07/2023 Architectural Tour of Bordentown City led by Historic Architect, Margaret Westfield
05/06/2023 Colonial Taverns of New Jersey - Libations, Liberty and Revolution - A Lecture and Book Signing by author Michael Gabriele
04/29/2023 Grand Re-Opening Celebration of our Joseph Bonaparte Exhibit
04/29/2023 Lecture by author Jeff Finegan: "I Knew George Washington"
04/15/2023 Textile Preservation and Display of Historic Textile - a Lecture by Andrea Goldstein
04/01/2023 John Harrison and the Chronometer that Changed the World - a Lecture by Expert Horologist, Gregg Perry
03/11/2023 Clara Barton: American Icon - Lecture by BHS Co-President Bonnie Goldman
02/18/2023 Lecture: History Revisited: One Person's Telling of the Voting Rights Act
01/28/2023 The Nuts and Bolts of Tall Clocks
01/21/2023 Chair Caning Demonstration by Jim Parker
12/02/2022 Bordentown City's Chocolate Walk
11/19/2022 Joseph Bonaparte, Giovanni Sartori and the Mystery of the Bonaparte Jewels
11/15/2022 BHS General Membership Meeting
11/13/2022 Bordentown Architectural Tour with Margaret Westfield
11/12/2022 Slide Show Presentation about the Sister City Signing Ceremony
11/12/2022 GILDER HOUSE CLEANUP
11/02/2022 Visions of Bordentown Virtual Art Show and Sale
10/01/2022 Napoleon's Weeping Willow and the Historic Tree Project
09/10/2022 Lecture by Gregg Perry, Conservator, on American Empire Furniture
08/06/2022 Peter Tucci Lecture: New Insights into the History and Archaeology of Point Breeze, Joseph Bonaparte's Palatial Estate in Bordentown
07/15/2022 BHS Blueberry Social
06/25/2022 The BHS's Annual Garden Tour
05/01/2022 Grand Opening of the BHS Joseph Bonaparte Exhibit and Book Signing by Patricia Stroud
04/09/2022 Book Debut and Signing by Mystery Novelist Arthur Cola
03/30/2022 Suffrage Talk by Nancy Kennedy
02/11/2022 Bordentown City Chocolate Walk
12/17/2021 Clara Barton - An American Life by Kevin Patti
12/04/2021 Clara Barton 200th Birthday Celebration
12/03/2021 Bordentown City's Downtown Bordentown Association's Chocolate Walk
11/17/2021 Angel of the Battlefield - Clara Barton's Humanitarian Efforts During and After the Civil War
11/03/2021 BHS 2nd ANNUAL VIRTUAL ART SHOW AND SALE: "VISIONS OF BORDENTOWN"
09/18/2021 Harrowing History
06/26/2021 ANNUAL GARDEN TOUR
05/23/2021 CLARA BARTON: IN HER OWN WORDS
07/31/2020 Annual General Meeting