The Walpack Historical Society believes everyone has a story worth sharing. We invite you to join us for the Return of Spirits of Lower Walpack Cemetery program on Saturday, September 19, 2026 from 5 pm – 8 pm at the Lower Walpack Cemetery. WHS members will bring to life some of Lower Walpack Cemetery’s most fascinating inhabitants. Guests will also have the opportunity to learn more about the history of
Please join the Walpack Historical Society on Sunday, August 9th, 2026 from 12 pm – 3 pm for tours of the Walpack Center Schoolhouse, Church, barn, Rosenkrans Museum, General Store and Post Office and the Van Campen Inn. Are you interested in exploring more of Walpack when you visit? #walpackhistory #walpacknj #vancampeninn
The Walpack Historical Society invites you to learn about life as a woman who followed Washington’s Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. This event will take place on Sunday, June 28th, 2026 from 1 pm – 3 pm at the Walpack Center Church. Wives, daughters, mothers, and single women followed their men on long marches and through cold and hungry conditions. Many had children with them. They worked as laundresses,
🗓️ When: Sunday, May 17th, 2026 from 1 pm – 3 pm📍 Where: Walpack Center Church The Walpack Historical Society invites you to join us on Sunday, May 17, 2026 at 1 pm for Sharon Spangenberg’s presentation on the New Jersey Forts Along the Delaware Frontier. Using Capt. Jonathan Hampton’s mid-1700 maps as a guide, Sharon will take you on a 62-mile visual tour from Fort Reading in Warren County
The Walpack Historical Society invites guests to “peek” INSIDE THE WALPACK ARCHIVES on Sunday, June 22nd, 2025. The program will begin at 1 pm. Guests are welcome to come early to socialize and browse our bookstore. The majority of the event will take place in the Walpack Center Church. The Barn and Rosenkrans Museum will be open for tours as well. Over the past 41 years the Walpack Historical Society
Walpack Historical Society in cooperation with the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area NPS, will honor the history of African American Residents in Walpack Township in observance of Juneteenth on Friday, June 20, 2025 from 11 am – 2:00 pm. Guided tours will be conducted of the Black/Slave Cemetery where the remains of up to 50 individuals are interred in unmarked graves. Some are believed to have been former slaves.
presentation of “Shapanack, a location in Walpack”. Shapanack, a Lenape word meaning “out-stretched arms” or “the place where the river spreads out”
Join us July 16th for a special presentation by David Pierce. He will be providing details from his book, “Tock’s Island: Dammed if you Do” – David Pierce “. The presentation will be at the Walpack Center Church at 1pm. In the early 1960’s, more than 7,000 families in NJ and PA were forced to sell their homes and businesses to make way for a dam and reservoir that were
Please join us on Sunday, May 21 at 1:00 for an exclusive showing of a Tour of Old Mine Road in 1967. This video has never been seen in a public forum. The photographs and narration are by Henry Topfer. It was produced when plans were being made to flood the Minisink valley for the Tocks Island Dam project. The presentation will be held at the Methodist Church in Walpack
July 17th was a beautiful day in the southern-most part of Walpack Township where Walpack Historical Society sponsored a presentation at the Lower Walpack Cemetery. Over 70 guests arrived in anticipation of hearing Sharon Spangenberg share her research on the history of this ancient cemetery. Shortly after 1:00 pm, our guests found a shady spot to set up their lawn chairs to listen to Sharon talk about the cemetery, the
