The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Jersey has been placing historical plaques commemorating New Jersey's colonial history in every county.

In early 2020, a plaque was installed in the New Jersey Room of the Jersey City Free Public Library tracing key moments in the period of Dutch colonization, 1609-1674. Covid restrictions have delayed an official unveiling until now.

Join officials from the Society as they officially present the plaque, followed by a presentation by noted public historian Firth Haring Fabend. 

Firth Haring Fabend is an independent historian with a Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University. She is the author of the prize-winning works A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800 and Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals, both published by Rutgers University Press. She has also published many essays on the Dutch Colonial experience, as well as a historical novel, Land So Fair, set in the lower Hudson Valley in the eighteenth century. Most recently she is the author of New Netherland in a Nutshell: A Concise History of the Dutch Colony in North America. She is a Charter Fellow of the New Netherland Institute, and a Fellow of The Holland Society of New York and the New York Academy of History.

Light refreshments will be served.