Preserving a 19th Century Industrial Community: Historic Village at Allaire

This Preserving America profile features the Historic Village at Allaire, New Jersey’s premiere living history museum. Personifying the nineteenth century industrial community that was once Howell Iron Works, the village includes thirteen original structures, built between 1750 and 1835, and houses more than 20,000 historical objects.
The Historic Village at Allaire was once a self-sufficient community containing a carpentry and pattern making shop, blacksmith shop, bakery, boarding house, blast furnace, mills to finish iron products, a school, church, general store with a post office, and workers’ home. Today, highly skilled volunteers, in period-appropriate clothing, conduct authentic demonstrations that include basket weaving, blacksmithing, carpentry, cider pressing, hearth cooking, leatherworking, tin smithing and much more.
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Images courtesy of the Historic Village at Allaire.