Museums of Perth Amboy

Museums of Perth Amboy MoPA is a non-profit historic and cultural tourism commission organized by four local museums in Perth Amboy, New Jersey in 2011.

The member organizations include the Ferry Slip Museum, the Kearney Cottage Association, the Proprietor’s House Association and the Surveyor General’s Museum.

02/27/2012

March 4, at 2 P.M. — “The Case That Never Dies — The Lindberg Kidnapping” — The Perth Amboy Ferry Slip Museum is pleased to announce that Lloyd C. Gardner, Ph.D., Professor of History at Rutgers University, distinguished lecturer, American historian and author and editor of 16 books, will be guest speaker on March 4, at 2 P.M.

To comfortably accommodate attendees, this event will be held at the new Perth Amboy YMCA located at 357 New Brunswick Avenue, Perth Amboy, NJ.

A minimum $5. donation is requested and Vopak Terminal is sponsoring refreshments following the lecture.

Professor Gardner will describe the case, built mostly with circumstantial evidence. Learn the importance of the role Perth Amboy resident David T. Wilentz, then Attorney General of New Jersey and Chief Prosecutor at the 1935 Lindbergh kidnapping trial, played in the often-disputed ex*****on of Bruno Hauptmann in the electric chair, April 3, 1936.

02/19/2012

The Market Street foyer entrance of City Hall has a new historic appearance, thanks to the efforts of the Museums of Perth Amboy Committee.

Please join us!
02/10/2012

Please join us!

01/26/2012

The Ferry Slip Museum proudly presents noted historian and author Gordon Bond with a fascinating program on Thomas Mundy Peterson.

Please join us as we celebrate Black History Month by the telling of the story of the first black man to vote under the 15th Amendment. How ironic that he voted in Perth Amboy City Hall, a building that had witnessed the selling of black slaves in the circle in front of it!

2:00 PM at the Ferry Slip Museum, 300 Front Street, Perth Amboy

For information: Kathleen Manning DePow, 732.442.5425

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Perth Amboy, NJ
08801

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