The Atlantic County Veterans Museum will host a photographic exhibit, “Legacy of Remembrance: Armistice Day Monuments of New Jersey,” beginning October 31 through January 4, 2025.
The exhibit highlights many of the Armistice Day monuments created and installed throughout New Jersey after World War I, including Atlantic City’s Liberty in Distress by Frederick MacMonnies.
Historian/photographer Erik L. Burro will give a presentation about the monuments on Saturday, November 16, at 1 p.m. at the museum.
The Veterans Museum is open Thursday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free and each visitor receives a self-guided tour booklet. Group tours are available by appointment and can be scheduled by calling (609) 909-7305.
The museum will also be open on Veterans Day, Monday, November 11, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It is located at 189 Route 50 South, Mays Landing, a quarter mile south of the Atlantic County Park and the Richard E. Squires Veterans Cemetery.
The museum occupies the former home of Rebecca Estell Bourgeois Winston, the first mayor of Estell Manor and the first female mayor in New Jersey.
It was built in 1832 by Winston’s grandfather and remodeled in the 1920s to Colonia Revival style. Atlantic County purchased the house in 1993 and rehabilitated it to provide a museum to serve as a tribute to our local veterans and to honor their contributions to our nation’s history.
The museum features artifacts and personal histories of many Atlantic County veterans, highlighting wars and conflicts from the Revolutionary War through modern day with keepsakes and mementos of veterans and their family members.
