Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum

Come meet local artist Tim Maher who produced the recent painting “Greetings from Bertrand Island” to mark 40 years since the park’s last season.  Giclees and posters of the painting will be available for purchase.  Meet Tim and see a wonderful selection of his paintings.  Refreshments will be served.

The museum will be open as part of the Sussex County Heritage Weekend featuring a salute to Bertrand Island Park’s 40th anniversary of it last season

Come tour the museum and stop by the Gift Shop for your Lake Hopatcong holiday gift ideas.

Buffet Lunch and photo-filled presentation of the History of Mount Arlington.

SOLD OUT!!!  The museum will feature a special program almost 35 years to the day that former president Richard Nixon made a very unlikely visit to Landing, New Jersey. In addition to taking a look at that unusual day in June 1989, we will hear from lifetime NJ resident Bob Bostock. A former aide to Dean Gallo, Christine Todd Whitman, and Rodney Frelinghuysen, Bostock will talk about his own unlikely journey from teenage volunteer in the 1972 campaign to working closely with the former president in 1990 in telling the story of the Nixon presidency at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library. Truly a special evening!

Ticketing will go live on line for this event on Wednesday, May 15, at 7:00pm.

A look at the interesting development of the Shore Hills area of Lake Hopatcong, originally the site of the American Forcite Powder Company.

Tickets go on sale Monday, June, 24, 2024 at 7:00pm from this website.  Ticketing link will become active at that time.

After decades of being closed, the restored Hopatcong State Park Fountain will be turned back on this July.  Come join us on Tuesday, July 16, ninety-nine years from the date the fountain was first turned on!

Help support our sister organization which is doing so much for the lake’s present and future.  A wonderful night to celebrate Lake Hopatcong!

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On the exact date 100 years from her passing, we will take a look at the amazing Lotta Crabtree. Lotta was the first true celebrity to summer at Lake Hopatcong, helping establish the lake as a major northeast resort.

Information on ticketing forwarded approximately four weeks before the event.

Come tour the museum on a weekday afternoon opening!

Annual bike, run, paddle challenge at the lake.

Come tour the museum on a weekday afternoon opening!

One of America’s greatest stars of the early 20th century, Joe Cook performed mainly in vaudeville and on Broadway. As a result, he is largely unknown today. One hundred years after Cook purchased a house in Davis Cove that would become the legendary “Sleepless Hollow” and sixty-five years after his death, we will explore the talent that caused legendary New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson to write, “next to Leonardo da Vinci, Joe Cook is the most versatile man known to recorded times.”

Ticketing begins online on October 16, 2024 at 7:30 pm.