Where to Find Us

The Millville Historical Society cares for three historic buildings on two streets, and a mausoleum in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Two of them sit side by side downtown. The third is about a mile away on Columbia Avenue.

If someone tells you to meet them at the Mansion, they mean 821 Columbia Avenue, not the Library, and not the Dunn House next door to it.

Millville Historical Society
Genealogical and Research Library: Headquarters and Archives

200 East Main Street, Millville, New Jersey 08332

Built in 1857 as the Millville Bank, and the Millville Public Library from 1903 to 1963. The Society's home since 1977. This is where the archive lives, where research happens, and where the Board and its committees meet.

Home to the Columbus Bell, which hung in the belfry of an African Methodist Episcopal church in Haleyville, New Jersey, from 1886 to 1947, when it was donated to the Society. The older story attached to the bell is legend, and research is ongoing.

Open to the public Wednesday and Sunday, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., year-round. Free admission.

Baracha Dunn House: The Oldest Surviving Building in Downtown Millville

204–206 East Main Street, Millville, New Jersey 08332

Built in 1798 for Baracha Dunn (1775 to 1858), who came to the village of Millville at twenty-two and bought the land from his former militia commander, Joseph Buck. Dunn had served under Millville's founder in the Cumberland County Militia in 1793, and later moved to Ohio, where he founded the town of Lockland.

The building has been a family home, an oyster house, a confectionery, a grocery store and a barber shop. It was saved from demolition in 1992, when the City of Millville sold it to the Society, and restored by volunteers. It is listed on the Register of Historic Structures and Sites in Cumberland County.

Open for tours on most Third Fridays, and by arrangement.

David C. Wood Mansion: Museum of Millville's Industrial Past

821 Columbia Avenue, Millville, New Jersey 08332

Twenty rooms, built by David Cooper Wood around 1814 and enlarged by his family through about 1866. New Jersey ironstone, mortared and whitewashed. The porch pillars, steps and iron door sills were cast at Wood's own foundry. The building is partly made of the industry that built it. On the National Register of Historic Places since December 24, 2013.

Open for special events, and tours by request.

Inside is Luna Belle, an original carousel horse who once ran at Millville's long-gone Union Lake Luna Park, restored and on display.

On the grounds is the 1886 Whitaker Ice Wagon, which carried ice to homes and businesses across the Third Ward and beyond. It was restored and unveiled at the Society's Annual Old-Fashioned Ice Cream Social on September 12, 2026, with the ribbon cut by Franklyn Pangburn, 93, a Korean War veteran who rode the wagon as a child. It is housed in a storage building put up in 2025.

The ice house, a separate structure, also stands on the grounds.

Stokes Mausoleum: Mount Pleasant Cemetery

Mount Pleasant Cemetery
601 West Main Street, Millville, New Jersey 08332

Built in 1942 for Edward Casper Stokes, Governor of New Jersey from 1905 to 1908. Struck by lightning and restored in 1992. Exterior viewing only.