The Millville Historical Society will participate in Millville’s Third Friday festivities with special programs at two historic locations—the 1798 Baracha Dunn House and the 1857 Millville Bank. Both sites will be open to the public on Friday, May 16, from 6 to 8 p.m.
At the Dunn House, located at 204 E. Main Street, visitors can step back in time to an era before modern conveniences like vacuums, washing machines and dryers. Kathryn Saxton-Granato, Program Specialist with South Jersey Curations LLC, will present “Spring Cleaning in the 1800s” and “This is the Way We Wash Our Clothes in the Early 1800s.” She will demonstrate authentic 19th-century cleaning methods using period tools, illustrating the rigorous, annual spring cleaning process required to remove soot and grime from homes heated with coal or wood and lit by oil lamps.
Next door at the 1857 Millville Bank, now the Genealogical and Historical Library of the Millville Historical Society located at 200 E. Main Street, there will be an exhibit titled “Honoring Millville’s Fallen Heroes of the Vietnam War: Never Forgotten.”
Light refreshments will be provided. Event is free and open to public.
