Spring Lake Historical Society
THE SPRING LAKE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC.
GENERAL
Over the years, the Society has chronicled our town's events and endeavored to enrich the community. The support of residents and friends from other communities has made possible our various programs, including the following:
  • Providing scholarships to Spring Lake high school seniors.
  • Researching and documenting the history of our houses.
  • Presenting programs at our elementary school that relate to the history and geography of Spring Lake.
  • Sponsoring public forums on topics of local and historical interest.
  • Conducting guided bus tours with lectures of historic Spring Lake for interested groups.
  • Staffing the museum with a professional part-time curator and maintaining the town's archives.
  • Publishing a newsletter with interesting articles and up-to-date activities of the Society and the town.
 
Purpose
The purpose of the Society is to bring together people interested in history and especially in collecting and preserving for study and research written records, artifacts, photographs and other historical materials concerning the Borough of Spring Lake and surrounding areas.
 
Function
The main function of the Society is to discover, collect and preserve any material that helps to illustrate the history of the Borough of Spring Lake and the surrounding areas. The Society preserves such materials, photographs and artifacts for research and study, and provides for access thereto as may be feasible.
 
Museum
The Museum exhibits the permanent collection of the Spring Lake Historical Society.
 
Changing Gallery
In addition to the permanent collection in the museum, the Society maintains a Changing Gallery in which the exhibits change approximately every two years. The previous exhibit concerned the combination of four separate communities to form current Spring Lake. The current exhibit is entitled "Postcards from the Edge of the Sea" and comprises various historical postcards that were sent from Spring Lake as well as some that were sent to Spring Lake.
 

MAKE HISTORY
 part of your
Spring Lake Experience
 at the
Historical Society Museum

Let the Society's collection of historic photographs, memorabilia and other artifacts transport you through Spring Lake's fascinating history -- from Indian times through the Victorian era to the present day.

The museum is located at the corner of Warren and Fifth Avenues, on the top floor of Spring Lake's Borough Hall, which was built in 1897 as the town's first public school. Housed in an unusually elaborate space which served in the 1950's as a Masonic meeting room, the museum has an intimate, jewel-like quality. Its highly ornamented interior, rich with architectural detail, now plays host to the collections which form the heart of the Society's historical treasures.

Historical Museum
inside the museum
Hours
Sunday: 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Thursday: 10am - 12pm

Admission Free
All Welcome

MUSEUM HELP
Call Mrs. Rizzi 449-4811

Please visit The Spring Lake Historical Society's online Walking Tour of Third Avenue Business District and Divine Park Nature Walk, compiled by Bonnie DuBois. Reproduced from the December 1997 Historical Society Newsletter.

SPRING LAKE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
President Rosemary Rizzi
Vice President Bonnie DuBois
Treasurer Hank Schroder
Corresponding Secretary Dorothy Lau
Recording Secretary Barbara Kolarsick
Trustees Barbara Kolarsick, Gil Robinson, Liz Campanile

Membership Form