The Tricentennial celebration (1982) of the township’s history will be on display at the Community House at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 3, during “Moorestown: Then, Now and Future,” a presentation by local resident Fred Young.
Since the 1600s, buildings have been constructed reflecting the history of Moorestown and its citizens. For the Tricentennial, glass-plate photographs taken in the late 1800s to early 1900s by William Roberts, a local resident, were used in a Moorestown Reflections book. More than 30 residences as well as multiple churches, banks and commercial buildings will be featured.
Residences in the presentation – on Chester Avenue, Main Street, Central Avenue, Prospect Avenue, Oak Avenue, Camden Avenue and Kings Highway – reflect many architectural styles representative of the more than 360 historic structures in the historic district.
The visual presentation also will display transportation in town and citizens at the turn of the 20th century. It will end with a description of ongoing attempts to preserve historic buildings in town.
Attendees will receive a walking tour handout that lists representative buildings and their addresses directly related to the structures shown in the presentation. The handout will allow participants to see these historic buildings on their own time.
The presentation is the third in a series of 11 one-hour presentations on the history of Moorestown from 1682 to the present, a total of 343 years.
