Howell Living History Farm Homepage

Visitors to the spring tillage program on April 20 got a close-up look at plowing a field for oats. On April 27, visitors helped to plant potatoes in ground plowed by the Farms work horses.(Photo by Jeff Kelly)

Howell Living History Farm is:

Carrying out the vision of Inez Howe Howell as:

A facility of the Mercer County Park Commission

A property on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places
A property on the National Register of Historic Places
Keystone of the Pleasant Valley Rural Historic District

Howell Farm is owned by Mercer County and operated by the Mercer County Park Commission with the support and assistance of
The Friends of Howell Living History Farm. The farm is an educational facility open to the public that preserves and interprets farming life and processes from the era of 1890-1910.

Howell Farm is a proud member of the Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums (ALHFAM).

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Howell Farm was Co-Host for the
2003 ALHFAM Annual Meeting and Conference
Princeton, New Jersey - June 22 - 26, 2003

Site Updated: May 14, 2013

May 17 (Friday evening - 7:30pm) Pleasant Valley in the Revolution

May 18 Pleasant Valley House Tours and Revolutionary War Reenactment

May 18 Sign-up Meeting for Spring FarmHands: 9:00am

May 19 (Sunday - 12:00-4:00pm) Revolutionary War Reenactment

May 17
(Friday evening - 7:30pm)
Pleasant Valley in the Revolution

May 18
Pleasant Valley House Tours and Revolutionary War Reenactment

May 18
Sign-up Meeting for Spring FarmHands: 9:00am

May 19
(Sunday - 12:00-4:00pm)
Revolutionary War Reenactment