This panel discussion convenes historians and preservationists to introduce the New Jersey lives of Civil War nurses Clara Barton, Cornelia Hancock and Somerville’s Arabella Barlow and considering opportunities for historic preservation and heritage tourism to share the stories of the “Jersey Girls” of the Civil War.

Carolynn Ivanoff and Andrea M. Quinn study and interpret Cornelia Hancock and Arabella Barlow, nurses of the Civil War descended from families of the American Revolution at Hancock House, Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites, enriching the traditional interpretation of the American Revolution to include the long history of New Jersey women’s contributions to the United States.

Bonnie Goldman, Co-President of the Bordentown Historical Society, extends the discussion to include Clara Barton’s teaching career in New Jersey and shares progress and plans for Bordentown Historical Society’s restoration of the Clara Barton Schoolhouse.

This program is part of a series made possible by the Wallace House and Old Dutch Parsonage Association, Proud Partner of Revolution NJ, with the sponsorship of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. #njhumanities

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this series do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

Following the panel discussion at United Reformed Church join a brief visit to the grave of Arabella Barlow at Somerville’s Old Cemetery on North Bridge Street remembering Arabella’s memorial day, the 141st anniversary of her death in the Civil War at a Union war hospital in Washington, July 27, 1864.