Hunter-Martin Settlement Museum

08/25/2025

YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS THIS! Tuesday evening Aug. 26th at 7 pm at the Hunter Martin Settlement Museum, Dr. Andrea Lynn Smith, a professor at Lafayette College, will be our guest speaker. She will be discussing her book, Memory Wars: Settlers and Natives Remember Washington’s Sullivan Expedition of 1779. Doors will be open at 6:30 pm ET if you’d like to come early and look around. Dr. Smith will have a few copies of her hardback book on hand and at a discount price if anyone would like to purchase. A monthly meeting will follow immediately after the speaker.

An American Revolution Soldier, John Deats (aka Johannes Dietz) is buried in the cemetery next to our museum. His service included the following: "he joined Sullivan's Expedition against the Indians. He served from May, 1779 until the following fall, a period of about five months, under Captain Paul Shipman of Greenwich, New Jersey. He had crossed the Delaware River at Easton where he drew some clothes: one pair of overall pantaloons, one pair of shoes, and one shirt. He then marched to Wilkes-Barre where he first met General Sullivan, as well as Generals Hand, Poor, and Maxwell." ~ credited from the blog named “who's your grammie” on blogspot.

07/22/2025

JOIN US! Program tonight July 22, 2025 7 pm ET at the Hunter-Martin Settlement Museum museum. Doors at 6:30 pm ET. Our guest speaker will be local historian Cheryl Statham. Cheryl will be discussing Pennsylvania Dutch arts and crafts with plenty of examples to show us.

07/13/2025

WE'RE OPEN TODAY - July 13, 2025. 1 pm to 4 pm. Carol Hoff and Holly Hutchison want to know if you ever typed on one of these? Long way from AI and laptops!!!

06/24/2025

TONIGHT! June 24, 2025 - grab a seat at the museum to listen to Dane DiFebo discussing the part residents of Lower Mt. Bethel played in the Civil War. Doors open at 6:30 pm ET. Program with Dane starts at 7 pm ET. A Membership meeting to follow the program. Address: 2966 Church Rd, Bangor, PA 18013

05/27/2025

Welcome! We are back to begin our 2025 Season!

TONIGHT! Tuesday May 27th. We look forward to seeing members at the Hunter-Martin Settlement Museum opening Seasonal meeting. Doors will be open at 6:30 pm. Meeting begins at 7 pm.

The Hunter Martin Museum has a beautiful new look inside. Last fall members contributed over 100 volunteer hours to document and curate our entire collection as well as taking pictures of
every item. You will be amazed with the fresh new look. Many thanks to Jen Carnicelli, Holly Hutchison, Karen Schoepple, Cindy Smith and Marie Tarsi who have done excellent work sprucing everything up in the building. Thanks also to Will Mann who put up new display shelves and whose assistance was invaluable in helping us create the new display show casing many service organizations in the area.

The Hunter-Martin Settlement Museum is in a school house built in 1803 on lands settled circa 1734 in Martins Creek, PA.

Dig in to the Settlement of Martins Creek, PA and Lower Mount Bethel. Find your roots and learn about your family history. We are always welcome to new members!

10/07/2024

Check out our friends the Martins Creek Village Garden Club hosting movie night at Bell Tower Cultural Center - Martins Creek, PA

08/11/2024

Good Sunday morning! The museum is open today Sunday August 11 from 1 pm - 4 pm. Take a walk through our historic early schoolhouse built in 1803 filled. There's never enough time to see everything inside this beloved building of history and what it holds within its walls.

07/23/2024

SEE YOU TONIGHT! July 23, 2024. Doors open at 6:30 pm.

Class is in!!! Join us this Tuesday July 23rd at 7 pm at the Hunter-Martin Settlement Museum to hear local historian Joel Hoffner give an informative presentation on Early Schoolhouses of Northampton County Pennsylvania, 1749-1926 and the book that he compiled with the help of Tom Bross on this subject. Our museum was a schoolhouse that was built circa 1803. Doors will be open to the public at 6:30 pm. Business meeting will follow immediately after the presentation.

About Joel Hoffner - Joel Hoffner is a Lehigh Valley native who has cataloged collections at the Moravian Historical Society, Moravian Archives, Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society, and National Museum of Industrial History. He has a passion for local maps that began when he worked for the Lehigh Valley Joint Planning Commission while a student at Lehigh University. In 2023, he initiated the Schoolhouse project to identify, map, and document 413 early schoolhouses in Northampton County. Tom Bross, a retired school teacher, joined Hoffner's team and collected information from Bushkill Township and Moore Township.

07/22/2024

Class is in!!! Join us this Tuesday July 23rd at 7 pm at the Hunter-Martin Settlement Museum to hear local historian Joel Hoffner give an informative presentation on Early Schoolhouses of Northampton County Pennsylvania, 1749-1926 and the book that he compiled with the help of Tom Bross on this subject. Our museum was a schoolhouse that was built circa 1803. Doors will be open to the public at 6:30 pm. Business meeting will follow immediately after the presentation.

About Joel Hoffner - Joel Hoffner is a Lehigh Valley native who has cataloged collections at the Moravian Historical Society, Moravian Archives, Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society, and National Museum of Industrial History. He has a passion for local maps that began when he worked for the Lehigh Valley Joint Planning Commission while a student at Lehigh University. In 2023, he initiated the Schoolhouse project to identify, map, and document 413 early schoolhouses in Northampton County. Tom Bross, a retired school teacher, joined Hoffner's team and collected information from Bushkill Township and Moore Township.

07/02/2024

What a wonderful post from Easton Cemetery . We were honored to have Kay Wolff who is a Board Member of The Board of Friends of Easton Cemetery give a presentation last week. Thank you to everyone who came to the event.

06/19/2024

WELCOME! Mark your calendar to attend the Hunter-Martin Settlement Museum on June 25th, 2024 at 7:00 pm EST. Our Speaker for this Month's program is Kay Wolff, a Director on the Board of the Friends of Historic Easton Cemetery. She will present a slide show on the rich history and notable points of interest in the cemetery like their historic chapel and mausoleum, George Taylor, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Traill Green, founder of the Easton Cemetery, a medal of honor recipient from the Civil War, and the founders of Lafayette College. We may even realize some commonality between the Easton Cemetery and the Scotch-Irish Cemetery next to the museum.

We look forward to having Kay and seeing all of you on June 25th, 2024 7:00 pm EST at the Hunter-Martin Settlement Museum. All are welcome. You do not need to be a member to hear kay's presentation. Note to members - There will be a membership meeting to follow directly after Kay Wolff's Presentation.

Check out the painting below of George Transue, the great-great-great grandfather of Friends of Historic Easton Cemetery board president Amy Wolff who is Kay's daughter. Transue was superintendent of the cemetery from 1883 to 1914, and was the first to live in the superintendent's house after it was built in 1900. (The painted image below courtesy of Amy Wolff.)