Opening Day will be here before we know it!
Shippen will be open the 1st and 2nd Sundays, starting in May.
We are excited to partake in the Country's celebration of our independency with Rev250 programming, speakers, and a visit with the 2nd NJ for History Trail Sunday at Shippen in November.
The museum is free to the public (our Friends of Shippen do accept monetary donations for the museum) and family-friendly (unless otherwise noted).
We can't wait to see you!
Program schedule, parking, accessibility and other information: www.warrencountynjheritage.com/history/shippen-manor-programming
The museum needs volunteers! If you are interested in helping out on the Sundays we are open (museum days, special programming, and much more!), please reach out to Gina at (908) 453-4381 (grosseland@co.warren.nj.us). No prior knowledge of Oxford history is required to be a volunteer.
#seeyouathemanor #ShippenManor #shippencelebrates250
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Warren County ARTS is announcing their May programming and a call for artists.
Warren County ARTS announcing Still Life Drawing & Paint on Saturday 5/9/26, 1- 3 PM, located at The Oxford Municipal Gallery, 11 Green St., Oxford, NJ 07863
Pre-registration is required. To get more info and register at www.WCARTS.org.
REMINDER:
Warren County ARTS is announcing a juried open show
Call for Artists: May 16th to Aug. 1st
Artist reception: June 14th, 2026, 2-4 pm
Location: Oxford Municipal Building, 11 Green St., Oxford, NJ
Entry form due May 9th
Forms and More info can be found at www.WCARTS.org.
Arts programming is possible by funds from the NJ State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, facilitated through the Warren Co. Division of Cultural & Heritage Affairs.
#WCArts #WCCHA #ShippenManor #NJSCA #NEA #Arts
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Announcing our 2026 programming schedule.
The museum is open the 1st and 2nd Sundays starting in May. We have a great programming schedule for our 250th, including RevWar Shippen Talks, Rev250 "On the Dailies", a visit with the 2nd NJ Reg't (History Trail Weekend, Nov 9) and more!
www.warrencountynjheritage.com/history/shippen-manor-programming
We are also sharing our Rev250 logo! There will be a special Rev250 Concert this summer-- keep your eyes out for our announcement!
We are in need of volunteers for the museum. When we have a limited number of volunteers available to help when we're open (events, special programming, regular museum days), it limits what we can provide to the public.
If you're interested, please reach to Gina Rosseland (grosseland@co.warren.nj.us) during the week (office hours are a bit sporadic right now, but generally M-F 8-4pm, at least until the museum opens).
School groups larger than 15 cannot be accommodated for weekday visits due to a shortage of docents/volunteers.
#SeeyouattheManor
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Greetings, friends.
If you tried calling the office today and couldn't get through, we are having technical difficulties.
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#RobesonsForge (aka Changewater Forge)
Jonathan Robeson erected the Changewater Forge on the Musconetcong River, 17 miles from its mouth, in a place called Changewater (due to the separation of the upper and lower branches). It was located about 5 miles south of the Oxford Furnace and "in the way to market, either Philadelphia or New York," and on 8 Jan 1750-51, there was an ad of a large tract of land that is described as "joining Jonathan Robinson's (Robeson's) forge on the Muskonetkong* river" (Boyer, 52).
* Musconetcong River.
When he listed the property for sale, he also included 1400 ac. of land, the forge on the "Muskoneckonk* creek", a saw mill, and other buildings for the workmen (52).
* Musconetcong River
In 1767, Jacob Starn/Stern (d. Dec. 1773), also associated with the Oxford Furnace, managed the Changewater Forge after Robeson's death in 1766 (52). He served as sheriff and justice, later appointed as judge of the Sussex County court by the Crown.
* Starn is buried in the Hughesville Cemetery in Pohatcong
In his will (27 Nov 1773), Starn was described as the "iron master" and it states that "if the forge does not sell to advantage, it is to be rented out and to leave One Hundred and fifty acres of Land and some meadow with all the forge Buildings" (53).
Col. Mark Thompson/Thomson (1739-1803), also of Marksboro, operated the forge after 1784 until his death on 4 Dec 1803. It is frequently mentioned in the Durham Furnace papers that "stampt metal", "stampt stuff", and "stampt cinder iron" was delivered to Thompson in Changewater (53).
* Col. Thomson served in the House of Representatives (NJ). He was born in Norristown, PA and was engaged in milling (he ran the Marksboro Mill on Springtown Road in Hardwick). He was the Justice of the Peace for Sussex Co. (1773), member of the provincial convention (1774), and Provincial Congress (1775), lieutenant colonel of the 1st Reg't, Sussex Co. Militia (22 July 1775), lieutenant colonel of Col. Charles Stewart's Battalion of Minutemen (15 Feb 1776), colonel of 1st Reg't Sussex Co. (10 July 1776), colonel of Battalion of Detached NJ Militia (18 July 1776), member of NJ State General Assembly (1779), NJ state council (1786-1788), appointed lieutenant colonel and aide-de-camp on NJ Gov. Richard Howell's staff. He was elected as a Federalist to the 4th and 5th Congresses (4 March 1795 - 3 March 1799. He died in Marksboro (Warren Co.) on 14 Dec 1803.
* Source: history.house.gov/People/Detail/22914
In 1816, the forge was worked by Thompson's son, Robert C. Thomson/Thompson (1733-1825), and continued operating in 1834, but there is no known documentation as to when the forge ceased operation (54). In referencing the 1872 and 1874 maps of Lebanon Twp., Hunterdon Co. and Changewater, Warren Co., there is no demarcation for the old forge.
* Robert Currie Thomson, was born in Marksboro (Hardwick) and was a member of the NJ Assembly from Sussex Co. (1816-1819). He died at age 50 at Changewater and was buried at Mansfield Woodhouse Cemetery in Washington. (Find a Grave: www.findagrave.com/memorial/60606195/robert-currie-thomson)
Source: Boyer, Charles Shimer. Early Forges & Furnaces in NJ. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1931. 52.r
#ChangewaterForge #WashingtonTwpNJ #WarrenCoNJ #ShippenManor #OxfordFurnace #JonathanRobeson #JacobStarn #ColMarkThompson
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