Monthly Archives: September 2025

Osborn Cannonball House Open For Scotch Plains Day and Four Centuries in a Weekend

13 September 2025
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The Osborn Cannonball House Museum, located at 1840 Front Street in Scotch Plains, will be open to the public on Sunday, October 5th from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and for Four Centuries in a Weekend on Saturday, October 18, 2025, and Sunday, October 19, 2025 from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. both days.

The museum will feature a display entitled “NJ Passengers Aboard the RMS Titanic,” which will include replicas of the actual items used aboard the ship.

From the museum’s vast antique clothing collection, mannequins will be dressed in “Titanic era,” or Edwardian, clothing. This display will have clothing representing the three classes aboard the ship.

Costumed docents will give tours of the 1750 home of the Osborn family, who witnessed and played a role in the Revolutionary War and the founding of the town of Scotch Plains. For the Four Centuries in a Weekend event, there will also be a children’s craft in our craft tent along with an early Halloween treat!

For further information email Info@HistoricalSocietySPFNJ.org or call (908) 322-6700, Ext. 230,
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UPS, DOWNS AND AROUNDS By Dan Koslowski

13 September 2025
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Ninety three years ago Charles Lindbergh, Jr., son of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, was kidnapped from his home. JD Solomon, retired journalist, regards this as the most notorious crime in NJ. This case resulted in the “Lindbergh Law”: federal kidnapping act.

The Historical society of Scotch Plains and Fanwood invites you to come to our meeting on Wednesday evening April 23rd at 7:30 PM to learn about this tragic kidnapping, criminal hunt and trial. The meeting takes place at the Historical  Shady Rest Country Club in Scotch Plains.

JD Solomon is a Westfield resident and retired journalist who gives presentations about historical true crime at senior centers and community organizations in Union County. He is the author of two historical novels.  His first, The Tinen Killings, is a thriller about aging Civil War veterans in Philadelphia in 1898. He second, Home News, is a thriller about bootlegging set in his home town of Bay Shore, NY, in 1928.

The Historical Society of Scotch Plains and Fanwood invites you to come to our meeting on Wednesday evening April 23rd beginning at 7:30 PM to learn the details about this tragic kidnapping, criminal hunt and trial. The meeting is free and open to all and is held at the historic Shady Rest Country Club, 820 Jerusalem Road (at the corner of Plainfield Ave) in Scotch Plains. Refreshments and fellowship follow the presentation. For questions, please email Info@HistoricalSocietySPFNJ.org or call 908/322-6700 Extension 230.

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