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The Brooklyn Museum has added a new feature to its 1776 oil-on-canvas painting of Continental Army Gen. George Washington a description card that notes his ownership of slaves despite defending the self-evident truth that all men are created equal.
The Brooklyn Museum has added a new feature to its 1776 oil-on-canvas painting of Continental Army Gen. George Washington a description card that notes his ownership of slaves despite defending the self-evident truth that all men are created equal.
Historic plot that county paid to preserve is sold, will be restored back to horse farm
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The historic 248-year-old Stafford Farms was sold recently with anticipation of it being restored to a working horse farm.
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A horse farm is set to return to a property sandwiched between two suburban New Jersey towns. Stafford Farm, a 70-acre plot of preserved agricultural space, located at the intersection of Evesham and White Horse roads in Voorhees, has been sold with plans for preservation.
Bill Green, an entrepreneur and Camden County native, recently bought the property for $900,000.
The farm’s acerage is about half of a larger lot of land that was originally settled by the Stafford family in 1773. John Stafford, the son of the founder, was the personal guard of Continental Army Gen. George Washington during the Revolutionary War, a Camden County statement said.
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Greg and Karen Galster are kindred spirits in their appreciation of history. They live in a 250-year-old former general store in Pipersville at the intersection of Durham and Dark Hollow Roads. Their residence offers historic glimpses of life in the past. The small village of about 60 residents in Bedminster in Upper Bucks is anchored to the American Revolution.
“When we bought the store 35 years ago, the owner gave me a ring with 40 keys and said ‘Congratulations, you’re now the mayor of Pipersville,’ ” Greg smiled. “The key ring didn’t mean we had access to every home in Pipersville, rather it meant the 3-story building with many rooms was once a boarding house in addition to other uses. It’s been a general store, a post office and now an antique/gift shop rented to our neighbor Lynne Gordon who lives in the village. Bedminster Township meetings also once occurred here.”