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Ongoing Events and Exhibits

A Malapertness of Sutlers

Come shop in 1776. Buy food, clothing and other things necessary for your colonial life

Deborah Peterson’s Pantry offers hard-to-find, test driven and approved ingredients for your 18th century culinary kitchen.
Thursday, Friday, & Saturday

Historic Delights offers handcrafted jewelry designs of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Necklaces and earrings are designed and made by Janice Erickson Smith. Vintage brooches are also offered as well as silk ribbon.
Wednesday through Saturday during the day and Friday evening for the Colonial Ball.

The Rancocas Merchant offers colonial men's and women's clothing, sewing notions, clothing patterns, 18th century wooden toys and miscellaneous items too numerous to list.
Wednesday through Saturday during the day.

The Scarlet Scarab offers a variety of fine accoutrements including quality handwoven wool blankets, variety of oilcloth, a collection of horn accessories, officer sashes, fingerless gloves & wristers, hand knitted hats, Canadian-style caps, fire starting kits, tin bowls, period games, canteens, wallets, chess sets, rum ration cups, hemp ropes & strapping, and a selection of appropriate books.
Wednesday through Saturday during the day and attending the Colonial Ball on Friday evening.

Organized by the Trenton Historical Society

Mural: The First Public Reading of the Declaration of Independence

Permanent installation.

“… (A)ll men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights (among which) are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The first time these words were heard in public was in Trenton, New Jersey, on July 8, 1776 at 10 am. To commemorate this event, Patriots’ Week organizers, The Trenton Downtown Association, commissioned muralist Illia Barger of Stockton to depict this historic event in a breathtaking mural.

Exhibit: Remarkable for His Industry

Daily, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

This newly opened exhibit is based on archeological digs required by the New Jersey Department of Transportation in anticipation of the construction of the Route 29 tunnel in 2000. Finds from the site provide us with a marvelous window onto the commercial life of revolutionary Trenton through the businesses of one businessman named William Richards.

Tours of this exhibit, and the Old Barracks Museum, are suitable for ages 9 and above at a fee of $8 for adults and $6 for students and seniors. Children 5 years old and under are free.

The Old Barracks Gift Shop offers muskets, pistols, swords, fifes, colonial music CD’s, books, NJ souvenirs, colonial house wares and revolutionary maps and documents.

Exhibits: 10 Crucial Days

Monday through Sunday,  10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Posters of a first hand account of the “Engagement at Trenton and Princeton on Thursday and Friday the 2nd and 3d of January 1777 by Mr. Hood, 3d Battalion.” This account is a colorful and detailed account of the 10 Crucial Days by a man who fought in them. This exhibit is provided courtesy of the David Library of the American Revolution from its Sol Feinstone Collection.

A copy of the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route in New Jersey 1781-1783: An Historical and Architectural Survey a three volume work by Dr. Robert A. Selig, commissioned by the New Jersey Historic Trust. CD copies of this work are also available during Patriots’ Week. Supplies are limited.

10 Crucial Days, a display developed by Hunter Research, which relates the critical events of the rebels’ military campaign to the modern landscape of central New Jersey.

Revolution Art Show

Tuesday through Friday noon to 6:00 pm; Saturday 11:00 am to 4:00 pm

“Revolution” is an all media, juried art show organized by Gallery 125, featuring all radical changes in society: the Cultural Revolution, the Digital Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the Sexual Revolution and, of course, the American Revolution.