Join Us August 9 for the Frenchtown Cemetery Tour Benefit for HCHS

A tour of the Frenchtown Cemetery on Saturday, August 9, at 10 a.m. will benefit the Hunterdon County Historical Society. It will cost $20, but it will be free to teenagers or anyone who can pass as a teenager. It will be limited to 15 people.

Rick Epstein, author of “Frenchtown; Fires, Floods, Fads, and Felonies,” will conduct the tour. “Usually, my tour money buys sleek racehorses and cascades of precious gems for my wife,” said Epstein. “But the Historical Society has been a great help in my research, and I’d like to show my gratitude.”

The tour will pay respects at the graves of Civil War captain William Slater, whose wife and daughter saved his life and his job; a Union Army private who built himself the biggest monument in the cemetery; a woman murdered by her son-in-law; two guys who pulled off epic pranks in the 1870s; a man who swam away from the deadly Milford train wreck of 1877; and many more.

For more information or to sign up for the tour, send an email to RickEpstein@yahoo.com.