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Ocean’s Heritage, Spring/Summer 2019
Wine and Cheese Open House, 7 p.m., Friday, June 21 at the Eden Woolley House
Hand-drawn 1849 map to be unveiled
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recent phone call from the Shrewsbury Historical Society (SHS) brought a happy surprise. They had a gift for us: a copy of a map of Shrewsbury, hand drawn in January 1849—mostly likely created to outline the boundaries of the new municipality, the Township of Ocean, scheduled to split from Shrewsbury a month later. They have given us both a digital and a full-size paper copy of the original, now framed and ready to be unveiled to the public at a wine and cheese open house at the Woolley House, 7 p.m., Friday, June 21.
The discovery and restoration SHS volunteers discovered the original several years ago while searching through a closet at the Shrewsbury Historical Society Museum (419 Sycamore Ave.). After agreeing to fund the map’s conservation and receiving a grant from the Monmouth County Historical Commission, the SHS entrusted the rare document to the famed Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts in Philadelphia. More than a year later, it was fully restored, framed, and on display at the Shrewsbury Museum in time for this past “Weekend in Old Monmouth,” May 4 and 5. The history In all likelihood the map was drawn by
Benjamin W. Corlies, an Eatontown surveyor, whose initials “BWC” appear below its scale indicator. Corlies annotated the document with hand-drawn images of houses, churches, and waterways. It was from the Shrewsbury shown on the map that the Township of Ocean, by act of the NJ Legislature, February 21, 1849,
withdrew, taking with it all the land from Sea Bright south to the Manasquan inlet. Join us Come to the Woolley House, 7 p.m., Friday, June 21. Join us in raising a glass to the Shrewsbury Historical Society for its gift and to the Township on its 170 anniversary year.
Museum represented at Shore History Fair
Heather MacDonald (as Mabel Fenton) and Gary Edelson introduced the Museum to well over 100 visitors at the first Shore History Fair, April 27, at the Taylor Pavilion, Belmar.
Votes for Women continued from page one session of Congress for the next 42 years! The (by then) 19th Amendment, granting women’s suffrage, was finally ratified in 1920.
They didn’t live to see it
Neither Stanton nor Anthony lived to see passage. Their efforts fell short of their goals. But the inroads they gained, the organizations they created, and the national awareness they built set the stage for the next generation—the early 20th century activists who carried the camElizabeth Cady Stanton (seated) and paign for women’s suffrage to Susan B. Anthony victory.
The second wave
Among this second wave of suffragists were the daughters of Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott—and newcomers, including Carrie Chapman Catt and New Jersey native Alice Paul. Catt and Paul were rivals. Their strategies and styles were at odds. Catt favored local campaigns to change state voting laws. She thought militant demonstration unpatriotic after the U.S. entered World War I in 1917. In contrast, Paul took the fight for a U.S. Constitutional amendment to President Wilson’s doorstep. She lead an 18-month long picketing campaign at the gates to the White House. She welcomed arrest and used the mistreatment of imprisioned suffragists to build public sympathy. Faced with a public relations nightmare, Wilson gave in and threw his support in favor of the federal amendment. Passage of the Anthony Amendment was “the greatest expansion of democracy on a single day the world had ever seen” (Eleanor Clift, Founding Sisters). Join us at the July 28 opening to learn the full story.
