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Children will learn what life would have been like for kids living on a farm in 1900 – pumping water for the animals, bedding the barn with straw, and meeting the horses, pigs, sheep, and chickens up close.
Howell Farm’s calendar reflects the cycles of a fully functioning, working farm in Pleasant Valley, New Jersey during the years 1890 – 1910. Programs enable visitors to see real farming operations up close, speak with farmers and interpreters, and in many instances lend a hand.
Visitors can enjoy the park through the tours of its one-room schoolhouse, late Revolutionary War period farmhouse, cemetery and the archaeological sites of a blacksmith shop, gristmill and two sawmills. Howell Farm continues as a working farm, contributing to New Jersey's legacy as the Garden State.
The Howell Living History Farm, also known as the Joseph Phillips Farm, is a 130-acre (53 ha) living open-air museum located north of Titusville in the Pleasant Valley section of Hopewell Township in Mercer County, New Jersey.
Nestled in the heart of the Pleasant Valley Rural Historic District, this 130-acre park was a working farm for over 240 years when its last private owner, Inez Howe Howell, gave it to Mercer County in 1974.
Howell Living History Farm, Lambertville, New Jersey. 4,768 likes · 66 talking about this · 685 were here. See how farming was done in the 1900s by getting your hands in the dirt and meeting the farm...
Apr 8, 2022 · Open every Saturday from 10am-4pm, the public can visit The Howell Living History Farm in Hopewell Township free of charge and experience a typical day on the farm in the time period of 1890-1910. A facility of the Mercer County Parks Commission, the farm is now 289 years old and has been active since 1733. Mrs.
