The Lawnside Historical Society is a membership organization who welcomes everyone and anyone to join our monthly meetings. We would love to have you join us! Due to COVID-19 we have been meeting in a virtual format, via Zoom. Please register here in advance to attend this meeting. HistoryMoment: Burials
Lawnside Public School was the center of community life and government. Learn about it via Zoom when Andrea Tingey of the N.J. Historic Preservation Office explains the school’s nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. Please register here in advance to attend this meeting.
Join the Lawnside Historical Society for special guest, Gail Greenberg, historian, researcher and former executive director of the Camden County Cultural and Heritage Commission, shares research she used to nominate the Peter Mott House for the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places in 1994. Please register here in advance to attend this meeting.
Samuel "Butch" Funches, Jr., a lifelong member and former chief of the Lawnside Volunteer Fire Co. No. 1 will talk about its 110-year history in a Zoom presentation. Listen to learn about the culture, family traditions and service the company has done for the community.
Lawnside in the Green Book
Visualizing the Past: When They Tried to Split Lawnside + Black History Month Program with Gilda Rogers, executive director of the T. Thomas Fortune Cultural Center.
Visualizing the Past: A Poet, An Educator and a Woman of the Year: Lawnside Women
A Mutually Beneficial Society, The Odd Fellows of Lawnside