OUTREACH PROGRAMS
People visit the Mauricetown Historical Society headquarters, the Edward Compton House Museum annually - we are an all year organization. Some stop in while exploring the Coastal Heritage Trail or during the annual Mauricetown Fire Company's seafood festival (the society is proud to provide luscious desserts for sale during this event).
Everyone is welcome to attend our monthly meetings on the third Tuesday or our many special events.
Each year the society presents educational awards to fourth grade students in the Commercial Township school district for exemplary history projects relative to our township. The award winning projects are displayed in our museum or in the post office windows.
The society supports the Port Norris Library, the Mauricetown Fire Company, and the Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River, an environmental group whose mission is conservation, preservation and restoration of the river's natural resources. We also continue to be a much needed community asset as well as a working neighbor providing historical perspectives for projects and events in the area.
Volunteers who are over age fifty-five tabulate their hours of service for the Cumberland County RSVP (Retired Senior Volunteer Program) a county assistance program for seniors.
The society's museum is used as a focal point and tour destination for many groups throughout the year, especially school classes and boy and girl scout organizations. Historical society delegations from other New Jersey communities also make their way to Mauricetown to attend the Cumberland County Neighborhood Leadership meetings.
The Mauricetown Historical Society has been featured in television advertisements for the Cumberland County Tourism Bureau and in many local newspaper articles noting particularly our many restoration efforts.
The society maintains a research library, including volumes of genealogical information, for free use by the public. Each year numerous visitors come to search for their roots in this part of Cumberland county.
The reaches all along the Maurice River from just south of Millville to Port Norris were recently provided with signage from information gathered in our library.