![]() A hard-fought 1979 preservation effort spearheaded by the Fellowship for Metlar House and Piscataway Township saved the building, and it now serves as the community's Historical and Cultural Museum. In the mid-1970s The New Jersey Department of Transportation purchased the property, intending to use it for a Route 18 interchange. Newton appreciated the home's history and wrote the nomination that placed the site on the State and National Registers. In the 1950s John sold Metlar House to John Newton, a Rutgers University professor. John and his family moved in, his wife re-christening the home "Metlar House" when it became a trolley-stop for the light rail running along the River Road corridor. In 1914, George's son, John, inherited the house and one-third of his father's real estate holdings. In 1890 he purchased Sunnyside allowing his farm manager, John Mason, to reside there. ![]() The entrepreneur George Metlar was a Central New Jersey real estate magnate who, by the late 1800s, owned thousands of acres in Piscataway. This Greek Revival addition, with its lovely front porch and circular attic window, and a Victorian style rehabilitation twenty years later, significantly improved the property. The Bodine House passed through a number of owners before it was expanded in the 1850s and named "Sunnyside" by George Knapp, a New Brunswick businessman. ![]() The busy commercial center survived numerous British incursions and several battles during the Revolutionary War, thriving until the early 19th century when it was overshadowed by New Brunswick, a boom town and county seat, boasting an interstate canal and railroad connection on the southwest side of the river. Peter Bodine was a leading merchant at Raritan Landing, one of the nation's earliest river-ports, located in the large 1666 land grant called "Piscataway." His small one room home, with sleeping loft and root cellar, was built in 1728 on a bluff along "The Great Road Up the Raritan" (today's River Road), about 1/4 mile from his warehouse. Arrangements entrusted to the McCulloch-Watson Funeral Home, Durham.The older of only two remaining homes from the Colonial era New Jersey community, Raritan Landing A Celebration of Life service is to be arranged at a later date.Īs an expression of sympathy, memorial donations to Rockwood Terrace, Durham Baptist Church or the charity of your choice would be appreciated by the family. We also with to express our thanks to the awesome staff at Rockwood Terrace who have helped care for Mom over the past almost seven years.Ī private family interment was held at the Emmanuel Baptist Cemetery, Killaloe. The family wishes to express their thanks to the many doctors and nurses in the Durham and Owen Sound Hospitals. Loving Great-Grandma of, Rowan Clinch, Arwen Miller, Van and Jordan Smith and Aloysius and Giorgio and Nikola Lucchese. Loving Gramma of Jessica and Andrew Smith of Peel Region, Dawn Miller of Kitchener, Lisa and Francesco Lucchese of Fergus, Mathew and Lindsey Clinch of Hanover, Felicia and Gaurav Kapoor of Orleans. Loving Mother to Mark and Beatrix Weber of Mississauga, Mary and Barry Yack of Durham, and Dorcas and Randy Clinch of Hanover. She enjoyed knitting, reading, puzzles and endless games with family and friends. She loved her work and time with the Gideons. She spent her life serving others as a bank teller in Hornepayne, a Registered Nurse in Pembroke and Kitchener Waterloo and also was an owner of a number of grocery stores in Kitchener, Georgetown and Hanover.ĭolores was a woman of faith and a great prayer warrior. She was born on Novemin Scotia, Ontario to the late Andrew and Lillie (nee Schamehorn) Hamilton. Dolores Eilene Weber (nee Hamilton) passed away peacefully at the Owen Sound Hospital on Sunday, November 1, 2020.
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