The second floor of the museum has a display of town memorabilia from different businesses, farming equipment from the area’s agricultural past and pictures of businesspeople and prominent citizens of the town. Some of the old bottles and equipment from the factory The Welsh Farms Ice Cream Factory display The Welsh’s were a very prominent family from the area. On the bottom floor, the society has Native American artifacts, period furniture and clothing and in the back of the museum is a full display of the original Welsh Farms Ice Cream factory. The museum, which was once the town’s schoolhouse, is an engaging site that showcases how the town developed over the last two hundred years. The Union Schoolhouse Museum at 6 Fairview Avenue This sleepy little town was once a bustling manufacturing site with the sawmill and Ghrist around the corner and the Welsh Farms Ice Cream factory up the street from the site. I came to the Washington Township Historical Site as part of Morris County’s “Pathways of History” tour and visited the Union Schoolhouse Museum and then the Union Church and Burial Ground that is located right next door on the same property. A Video on the Washington Township Historical Society
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