Central Jersey’s only musem dedicated to African American history is hoping to expand.
The Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum (SSAAM) is applying for funding from the state’s Green Acres Program to buy property on Hollow Road on Sourland Mountain.
The purchase will expand the nonprofit museum’s African American history campus and and allow for the preservation of an additional historic site.
SSAAM is located at the National Historic Register-listed Mt. Zion AME Church and the historic Reasoner/True House − sites that have been home to African Americans in the Sourlands for generations.
SSAAM applied for funding through the state Department of Environmental Protection’s Green Acres Local and Nonprofit Assistance Program. If awarded, these funds will enable SSAAM to purchase the historic Grover House at 211 Hollow Road.
The Grover House will serve as a resource for telling the local history of African Americans while preserving open space, SSAAM officials said.
Written comments on the proposed application may be sent to Anita Williams Galiano, interim executive director, [email protected], 183 Hollow Road, Skillman, NJ 08558.