Newsletter Archive

Copies of the current and  previous issues of the Madison Historical Society Newsletter have been archived on our website server and are accessible for easy download.

Available issues may be accessed by selecting on the appropriate links (in green) below.  Initially the archive will consist of Newsletters from the 2009 - 2010, 2010 - 2011, and 2011 - 2012 program years.  Later, we may add earlier issues.  As new issues are published, they too will be added.

Note: The archived Newsletters are in .pdf format.  In order to view them, you must have Adobe Reader (or an equivalent pdf reader) loaded onto your computer. 

The following issues of the Society Newsletter are currently available for download:

April 2012 MHS Newsletter
Headline: "Baseball in New Jersey, 1855-1870" with John Zinn
Spotlight on History: "The First Cy Young Winner"
 
February 2012 MHS Newsletter
Headline: "The Railroad: Key to Madison" with Carmine Toto
Spotlight on History: Madison's Architect
 
November 2011 MHS Newsletter
Headline:  "Annual Wreath Sale to be Held on December 3rd at the House at Hartley Frames"
Spotlight on History: "Hartley Farms"
 
September 2011 MHS Newsletter
Headline:  "Lincloln and the Larger Meaning of the Civil War"  and "The Fighing 33rd: The Rebellious New Jersey Civil War Regiment" .
Spotlight on History:  "A Most Remarkable Document" 
 
April 2011 MHS Newsletter
Headline: "A Very Disagreeable War: Civil War Journal"
Short Articles: "The Terrible Toll of the Civil War" and "Madison and the Civil War"
 
February 2011 MHS Newsletter
Headline: "Programs Announced for Spring"                                                                                                              Spotlight on History: "Well Known and Less Kown Facts About the Hartley Dodge Memorial"
 
November 2010 MHS Newsletter
Headline:  "Annual Wreath Sale to be Held on December 4th"                                                                               Spotlight on History: "Gypsies: An Important Part of Madison History" 
 
September 2010 MHS Newsletter
Headline:  "Luke Miller Dig Subject of First Program September 22nd"
 
May 2010 MHS Newsletter
Headline: "Dr. Perry Leavell Featured Speaker at Society Dinner"                                                                         Spotlight on History: "Madison's Connection to President Lincoln: William O. Stoddard"
 
March 2010 MHS Newsletter
Headline:  "The History of the Madison Fire Department"
Spotlight on History: "The Madison Fire Department
 
October 2009 MHS Newsletter
Headline: "The History of the Madison Police Department"
Featured Article: "Origins of the Madison Historical Society: 
 
August 2009 MHS Newsletter                                                                                                                                        Spotllight on History: "Crossroads of the Revolution"
 
March 2009 MHS Newsletter                                                                                                                                           Spotlight on History: "The French Connection"