East Jersey Old Town Village (also spelled East Jersey Olde Towne Village) is an open-air museum located in Johnson Park in Piscataway, New Jersey. The Village is a collection of Raritan Valley area historic buildings and includes original, reconstructed, and replicated 18th and 19th century vernacular architecture typical of farm and merchant communities of Central Jersey.[1] It is home to a permanent exhibition about Raritan Landing, an 18th-century inland port once located just downstream on the river.[2] Since 1989, the Middlesex County Office of Arts and History has had responsibility for the village.[1]
Village entrance sign in 2014
Courtyard view of the Smalleytown Schoolhouse and the Six Mile Run House
A 1970s replica of a no longer extant 1703 Dutch Reformed church. The "footprint" of the original building can be seen in the still existing cemetery (along with many early grave markers) in New Brunswick on Route 27 at Hampton Road.[3][4][5]
^Dudley, William L. (March 29, 1929). "Friendly Families: The Fitz-Randolphs". The Story of the Friends in Plainfield Including A History of Early Quaker Families. Retrieved 2011-07-17. Nathaniel Fitz Randolph was the oldest son of the largest and most influential family in this part of the colony before the Revolution. The founder of these distinguished people in America was Edward Fitz Randolph, of England, who came to America in 1630. Nathaniel, eldest of ten children, was born at Barnstable, Mass., in 1642. He and his immediate descendants were the only members of this prominent family belonging to the Friends. It is thought Nathaniel joined the Society at his marriage in 1662. After removal to the neighborhood of Woodbridge, N.J., Nathaniel filled all the local and county offices. In 1704 his house was opened for weekly meetings of the Friends. He died in 1713.
