ESTELL MANOR - The Atlantic County Veterans Museum will host a photographic exhibit, “Legacy of Remembrance: Armistice Day Monuments of New Jersey,” beginning Oct. 31 through Jan. 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 and photographer Erik L. Burro will give a presentation about the monuments 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16 at the museum.
The Veterans Museum is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. 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 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Veterans Day, Monday, Nov. 11.
The museum is located at 189 Route 50 South, 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 nations’ 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.
