The Township of Ocean Historical Museum will host a virtual presentation by Sean McHugh, instructor of GIS in the Department of History and Anthropology, on May 12 at 7 p.m. This program is free, but advanced registration is required. McHugh will discuss the Woolley site’s inhabitants and the historic context associated with 17th-to early 19th-century affluent Quaker farmers within the central New Jersey region.
His talk will focus on the findings of the most recent archeological dig at the site of the original Woolley dwelling constructed on a site near Poplar Brook during the first decade of the 18th century. The dig yielded important new information about the Woolley family’s earliest occupation of the property, as well as details related to the Native Americans who made camp in the area over the course of thousands of years.
