New Jersey Women's Heritage Trail
New Jersey Women's Heritage
Trail
Below is a sampling of five sites on
the New Jersey Women's Heritage Trail. Click on the pictures to see a detailed
description of each site as represented in the Trail guide booklet.
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Annis Boudinot Stockton, Clara Barton, Alice Paul; Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Millicent Fenwick... |
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The New Jersey Women’s Heritage Trail will lead you on a journey throughout the state, using historic places to tell the collective story of a few of these famous women, and many of the more private women, who contributed to the agricultural, industrial, labor and domestic history of the state. The idea for the New Jersey Women’s Heritage Trail emerged from collaborative work done by the Alice Paul Institute, the New Jersey State Historic Preservation Office and Preservation New Jersey when they helped to organize the first annual conference on women and historic preservation in Bryn Mawr, PA, in 1994. These groups saw the need to tell the story of the important contributions of New Jersey women through the historic sites and places they left behind. New Jersey is the first
state in the country to undertake a statewide comprehensive survey of
women’s historic sites. |
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Also, be sure to check out samples from
our New Jersey Women's Heritage Trail Teacher's Guide
Lesson 1: Create Your Own Women's Heritage Trail (PDF) Lesson 2: Women's Work is Never Done (PDF)
NJ Historic Sites Open to the Public (PDF)
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