ADDRESS
530 Ward Avenue
(corner of Buttonwood Street, Crosswicks, NJ)
Click here for a map of the Village of Crosswicks
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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!
​Please visit us this summer.
Open 2nd and 4th Sundays, 2-4 pm — May through September.
See "Events" for speaker dates and other events.
Click button below ​to view the Museum update journey — start to finish.

Museum Update video

Thank you to all our donors, sponsors, consultants, businesses and helpers for helping to make this possible.
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. Re-opening celebration took place on May 6th 2023, 10:00 to 3:00. Open to the public.
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.