2025 M : Matawan

   

In the challenge "M" is for Matawan, a town in Monmouth County, New Jersey. In disclosure, I lived in the town for a few years before I moved to the neighboring Borough of Keyport. The railroad divides the two towns so I literally moved to the other side of the track.

Although I was not born in Matawan, my in-laws were residents of the town for three generations. Volunteering at the local historical society started as an aid to my husband who was an officer at the time. Acting as his clerical help led to more projects and positions excluding president of the Matawan Historical Society and director of the Burrowes Mansion Museum.

Burrowes Mansion Museum
Main Street, Matawan Nj

The local work expanded from the revolutionary war-era history house museum to historic battlefields, journalism, multiple documentaries, and of course, the history books.

Instead of excerpts I thought I would share a few lines about the Matawan histories.

Around Matawan and Aberdeen

Contains over 180 historic photographs, many rare and previously unpublished. The images are used to illustrate the changes of Matawan and Aberdeen, New Jersey, from a colonial settlement to a 1920s resort, and as an industrial area to the suburban bedroom community of today.

Matawan and Aberdeen: Of Town and Field

Work covers the history of the Monmouth County, New Jersey towns of Matawan Borough and Aberdeen Township from pre-history times and the first settlers through to the new millennium. The book concludes with how the residents pulled together after their losses of 9-11-2001. 160 pages 100 photos 

From the Back Street to Main Street… And Beyond

The history chronicles the Society of Methodists of Middletown Point from its early beginnings with circuit rider preachers to the current congregation of the 21^st century as the Matawan United Methodist Church in Aberdeen.

Parade float

~till next time, Helen 

 

  

Buy the non-fiction works as noted:

Around Matawan and Aberdeen at Amazon / Barnes&Noble

Matawan and Aberdeen: Of Town and Field at Amazon and Barnes&Noble

From the Back Street to Main Street ... And Beyond at Amazon

If you're following other blogs in the challenge, here's the master list of the other participants.