Gallery Talk with Curator Shamele Jordon at the Voices of the Community: Local Black Preservation Exhibit
Join curator Shamele Jordon for a closer look at the exhibit Voices of the Community: Local Black Preservation at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Camden County Library Black History Month Series: “Journey on the Underground Railroad”
Join LHS at the Blackwood Rotary Public Library for a free presentation on “Journey on the Underground Railroad” with Jacqueline Miller-Bentley, Society board member, as she chronicles the challenges and triumphs of escapees from enslavement to freedom and their courageous allies.
Camden County Library Black History Month Series: “New Jersey UGRR Immersive Experience”
Join LHS at the Bellmawr Public Library for a free presentation on “New Jersey UGRR Immersive Experience” with Muneerah Higgs, as she details the innovative project she and a group of New Jersey teachers are creating to focus on the UGRR throughout our state.
Camden County Library Black History Month Series: “The Passion and Pride of the Peter Mott House Underground Railroad Museum”
Join LHS at the Merchantville Public Library for a free presentation on “The Passion and Pride of the Peter Mott House Underground Railroad Museum” with Linda Shockley, Society president, as she narrates the effort to save, restore and develop the Peter Mott House as Lawnside’s monumental artifact.
LHS Monthly Meeting: What Do You Know About Lawnside?
Join the Society for a special Black History Month program: “What Do You Know About Lawnside?” We’re celebrating the unique heritage of the borough as it approaches the 100th anniversary of incorporation in 2026.
LHS Monthly Meeting: Jacob C. White Sr. and the Plan to Uplift Enslaved Africans
Join us and Michiko Quinones, co-founder of 1838 Black Metropolis for the next LHS meeting, where she will detail sophisticated financial support for freedom seekers in Free Haven/Snow Hill, NJ.
South Jersey History Fair
The Gloucester Township Historic & Scenic Preservation Committee will be holding its third South Jersey History Fair on the grounds of the historic Gabriel Daveis Tavern Museum House. Historical groups and […]
LHS May 2023 Monthly Meeting
Citizens of Mount Peace Cemetery featuring Dolly Marshall/Visualizing the Past: Memories of Schooling in Lawnside To register – click below
Jessie Redmon Fauset Day
Jessie Redmon Fauset Day is a celebration of the celebrated poet through lectures and a poetry competition.
Year in Review/Year Ahead
Lawnside in the Green Book