Marquand Park Foundation, P.O. Box 415
Lover's Lane, Princeton NJ 08542
Marquand Park Foundation, P.O. Box 415
Lover's Lane, Princeton NJ 08542
Come by for family fun games, food and more at Sustainable Princeton and Morven's Earth Day Celebration. We will be under under the big tent!
Sign up with the Historical Society of Princeton for a tour of the Park. Free but space is limited. Sign up here.
Join us for a free family event celebrating Arbor Day! Rain or Shine!
Weather Update: Because of the weather, Pines & Needles will now take place on Sunday, January 11th, from noon to 1:00 pm. Same time, same fun—we hope to see you there! Bundle Up and Join us!
Join us for our 6th annual OAKtober day of fun activities. Scavenger Hunt, cookies, cider, crafts and more! Take home an oak tree.
Join us for "Made in the Shade" at Marquand Park on July 12, 10 AM–Noon! Enjoy Tree Bingo, sun photos, storytime, snacks, and a free coloring book—deep in the cool forest. Perfect for kids and families! Free admission. Rain date July 13
Please join us!
Join Morven Museum & Garden, the Marquand Park Foundation, and the Historical Society of Princeton for an interactive program exploring the material culture and natural history of this fascinating space.
The afternoon will begin at Morven with an opportunity to visit the museum’s current exhibition Morven Revealed: Untold Stories from New Jersey’s Most Historic Home, and to view maps, photographs, and more documenting Marquand Park’s history. This includes architect John Notman’s hand drawn plans of Fieldwood, Judge Field’s Italianate villa, built c. 1852 (now on display through May 2025). Following the museum visit, attendees can take a walking tour of Marquand Park led by knowledgeable guides Evie Timberlake and Becca Flemer, co-chairs of the Marquand Park Foundation.
This program is offered rain or shine. Free parking is available in Morven’s lot (55 Stockton Street, Princeton, NJ). Attendees can either drive or walk to take the tour of Marquand Park (48 Lover’s Lane, Princeton, NJ) following the visit to Morven. It’s a 5-minute drive (limited parking available on premises) and a 15-minute walk. The tour will begin at 3:15 p.m. More information and tickets available here.
Story time, Sing-along, Scavenger hunt and More!
Please join us to clean out invasives and work on our pollinator garden. All are welcome!
Please join us to celebrate the season!
Tickets available through Morven
Join us for our yearly celebration of oaks!
Free; advanced registration is required, as space is limited. In the event of rain, the tour will be held on Sunday, May 19.
https://princetonhistory.org/events/the-magic-and-history-of-marquand-park-7/
OAKtober is back!
Historical Society of Princeton and the Marquand Park Foundation Present: The Magic and History of Marquand Park Saturday, October 14, 2023 Free; advance registration is required, as space is limited. Follow this link for registration.
Join Morven and Marquand Park for a special Family Trees Tour, exploring the historic and natural landscape connecting our two sites. Register Here.
Our former chair Annette Merle-Smith, who passed away last month, spearheaded this effort and funded the project. Designed to blend in with the park surroundings, the stand will showcase not only a map, but a historic timeline of the property, and event announcements. With extraordinary craftsmanship, John Gray and his team designed and built the beautiful stand, carrying out Annette's vision. We would love for you to join us to commemorate this fabulous addition to the park.
Please Join us for a Celebration of Arbor Day!
Join us for a ribbon cutting of Eagle Scout Ansh Rana's StoryWalk! Snacks will be provided.
Help us Celebrate the Season! Tree lighting on Sunday December 4th at 4:00 pm but you can hang your ornament anytime in the Holiday Season!
The Trenton Museum Society and Marquand Park Foundation will present “home and away” tours of two historic landscapes, Cadwalader Park in Trenton on October 15 and Marquand Park in Princeton on October 22.
Cadwalader Park was the last great urban park designed by the founder of American landscape design, Frederick Law Olmstead. At its center is an Italianate villa, Ellarslie Mansion, designed by renowned architect John Notman in 1848. In Princeton, Notman was commissioned to design Guernsey Hall and its grounds in 1846. Seventeen acres were donated to the municipality by the Marquand family in 1953 to serve as an arboretum and passive recreation park.
Book through the Historical Society of Princeton Here
Join us for our third annual OAKtober - our celebration of the mighty oak. We will have a scavenger hunt to find oaks in the park, oak leaf cookies, and you can take home an oak seedling!
Historical Society of Princeton will conduct a walking tour in conjunction with our Arbor Day Cildren's Arboretum Event.
Please register with the Historical Society.
Join us for a celebration of the oaks in our park
OAKtober goes digital! Check out our new tour here: OAKtober digital tour
Neil Pederson, a forest researcher at Harvard University, will discuss how tree rings have provided centuries worth of precise, annual and seasonal details of climate, ecology, and competition.
Pederson, was one of the dendrochronologists credited with dating the Revolutionary War-era sailing ship found buried at the site of the World Trade Center. The team dated the outermost rings in the youngest of the ship’s timbers to 1773, and the evidence pointed to the ship being built in the mid-1770s, probably in a small shipyard, and probably in the greater Philadelphia region. (From the New Yorker)
Currently, Neil Pederson is a senior ecologist at the Harvard Forest, an ecological research area of 3,000 acres owned and managed by Harvard University and located in Petersham, Massachusetts. The property, in operation since 1907, includes one of North America’s oldest managed forests, educational and research facilities, a museum, and recreation trails.
The author discusses his latest book, “Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees,” a rediscovery of the lost traditions of tree pruning that sustained human life and culture for thousands of years. Logan is a certified arborist and the author of the acclaimed books: “Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth,” “Oak: The Frame of Civilization,” and “Air: The Restless Shaper of the World.” He is a faculty member at New York Botanical Garden.
About the book (from Amazon):
Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts, and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel iron works. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again.
Pruning the trees didn’t destroy them. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known. In this journey from the English fens to Spain, Japan, and California, William Bryant Logan rediscovers what was once an everyday ecology. He offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach.