ADDRESS
530 Ward Avenue
(corner of Buttonwood Street, Crosswicks, NJ)
Click here for a map of the Village of Crosswicks
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To arrange visits to the Museum for groups or individuals contact the Historical Society 
chesterfieldtwphistoricalsoc@gmail.com​ or send request to CTHS, PO Box 86, Crosswicks, NJ 08515
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Orthodox Meeting House in Crosswicks

When the Hicksite faction of Friends broke off in 1826, they were the majority in a number of New Jersey towns, and so took over their respective meeting property. In Crosswicks, the original (or Orthodox) group that held the minority built this fine brick meeting house about a block away around 1850. Quaker meeting houses normally have two front entrances, one for men and another for women; this, like a few of the mid-nineteenth century meeting houses, has but a single front entrance, with two doors. That is also the case of the meeting houses in Westfield and the Orthodox meeting house in Trenton. The windows in the mid-nineteenth century buildings are larger than the earlier structures, with 12 over 12 panes instead of 9 over 9 which was common.

The meeting house now houses the Chesterfield Township Historical Society Museum.  
​Please contact us at chesterfieldtwphistoricalsoc@gmail.com to visit outside normal opening hours.

CTHS MUSEUM has reopened!
Click button below photo ​to view the Museum update journey — start to finish.

Museum Update video

CTHS extends special thanks and appreciation to the Burlington County Division of Parks Cultural & Heritage Affairs
and to NJ Historical Commission for grant support for the museum exhibit project.
We are most grateful to our donors, sponsors, consultants, businesses and helpers
for helping to make this project possible. Thank you.
Also many thanks for generous Giving Tuesday donations 2020, 2021 and 2022. 
Giving Tuesday, Nov. 2020 helped make CTHS new entrance sign possible.
Interior painting was made possible, in part, through Giving Tuesday 2021 and generous sponsor donations.
2022 Giving Tuesday provided generous donations toward new lighting.  The lighting project was the last major update. The Re-opening celebration took place on May 6th 2023, 10:00 to 3:00. 
Summer Museum Open House and Speaker Series resumed, May 7, 2023. Info on Speaker Events page.​

19th-Century Bass Drum

Antique wheel-style coffee mill.