The Hopewell Public Library is set to host an Early Heroes of the Hopewell Valley history talk on Wednesday, August 5 at 7 p.m. The lecture will be held at the Hopewell Boro Railway Station.
Guests can learn about some of the earliest heroes in the Hopewell Valley. Archaeologist and archivist Jim Wade is set to present a new program for all ages about how the native Indians and earliest settlers helped each other.
Find out how in 1689 Jonathan Stout, Hopewell’s first white settler, became a ‘hero’ to the local native Indians in the Hopewell Valley, and how the local Hopewell native Indians helped Jonathan Stout with safe passage back to his original home in Middletown. And see how in the 1690s Hopewell’s second earliest settler, Dr. Roger Parke, originally from Crosswicks, came and visited the local native Indians of the Hopewell Valley and studied and learned their use of herbs and plants in making medicine and providing remedies and cures for the earliest white settlers of the Hopewell Valley.
Jim Wade has worked as a field archaeologist and an archaeological field assistant at several Indian sites throughout Central New Jersey. Wade also worked as an archivist with the N.J. State Museum in Trenton documenting Native American land holdings from the 17th and 18th centuries. He has taught several courses on the New Jersey Indians through the Princeton Adult School and Brookdale Community College. Wade is a frequent speaker on the Indians at the Washington Crossing State Park Nature Center and gives seasonal presentations on the Indians of our State throughout Central New Jersey.
This program is part of the Hopewell Public Library’s Wednesday Night Out series. It is free of charge.
For more information, call Hopewell Public Library at (609) 466-1625.
