Mark Your Calendar

September 20: General Membership Meeting

October 15: Annual Fall Pumpkin Festival

December 7: Annual Christmas Party

Our trustees and docents continue to itemize, catalog and preserve as much Nutley history as we can.

If you have an item tied to our town's history, please consider donating it to the Nutley Museum.

Give us a call 973-667-1528, or email us to get together.

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Join the Nutley Historical Society now

Now is a great time to join or renew your Nutley Historical Society membership

Thanks to all our members who supported the Nutley Historical Society’s Events and Activities. Here is a recap of what your membership dues helped to support in 2016.

• Ongoing open houses and Museum events.  Our Museum continued to hold open houses for yearly events that included the Summer Ice Cream Social, the Fall Pumpkin Painting Festival, and the Christmas Holiday Open House with live music and refreshments.

• Tours of the Nutley parks. Museum Director John Simko continued to conduct “Walk in the Park” tours that explained our parks’ rich history – the creation of the Memorial Park to honor veterans of World War II, the locations of textile mills and other fascinating facts about our town.

• Special exhibitions outside the Museum. In the last year, the Historical Society has continued to present well-received lectures and special exhibitions at the Nutley Public Library.

• Art competition. Three members of our Board joined Nutley educators in a competition in which 18 Nutley students submitted designs for a new mural that will be installed in the Walker Middle School this year.

• Museum scholarships. Three scholarships were awarded to graduating Nutley High School students who applied and submitted essays about Nutley’s history.

Join/renew membership in the Nutley Historical Society

If you are interested in volunteering to be on one of our committees or for any additional information or to schedule a museum tour please call 973-667-1528.

Member Benefit

Sharpshooter Annie Oakley Lived in Nutley, New Jersey Public Library Centennial Celebration.

A Walk in the Park: Historic Nutley Walking Tour at Memorial Park with John Simko

May 28, 2017

More than two dozen locals brushed up Nutley history with “A Walk in the Park,” hosted by Nutley Museum Director, John Simko.

The walking tour stepped off on Sunday, May 28, 2017, at the Mud Hole (near the intersection of Passaic and Vreeland Avenues) and traveled along the Third River. 

Mr. Simko talked about the river’s role in Nutley history as a source for early industry, as an inspiration for world-class artists, as a symbol of civic pride, as an important boundary marker, and as a fitting memorial to our war veterans.

The tour visited the sites of three former mills as well as the pre-Revolutionary Van Giesen homestead. Those on the tour learned why the Third River splits in two, about the beginnings of our hundred-year-old Carnegie Library and even older Town Hall, and walked through one of Nutley’s oldest cemeteries. 

The tour concluded inside an 1875 brick schoolhouse (now the Nutley Historical Society and Museum). The museum was open for browsing, and tour-related museum objects were on display. 

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Old Military Hall, Nutley, N.J.