East Jersey Old Town Village (also spelled East Jersey Olde Towne Village) is an

open-air museum An open-air museum (or open air museum) is a museum that exhibits collections of buildings and artifacts out-of-doors. It is also frequently known as a museum of buildings or a folk museum. Definition Open air is “the unconfined atmosphere� ...

located in Johnson Park in

Piscataway, New Jersey Piscataway () is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. It is a suburb of the New York metropolitan area, in the Raritan Valley. At the 2010 United States Census, the population was 56,044, an increase of 5,562 (+11.0%) fr ...

. The Village is a collection of

Raritan Valley Central Jersey is the central region of the U.S. state of New Jersey. The designation of Central New Jersey is a distinct administrative division, administrative toponymy, toponym. Geographic area and descriptions While the State of New Jerse ...

area historic buildings and includes original, reconstructed, and replicated 18th and 19th century

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typical of farm and merchant communities of

Central Jersey Central Jersey is the central region of the U.S. state of New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, ...

. It is home to a permanent exhibition about

Raritan Landing Raritan Landing is a historical unincorporated community located within Piscataway Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, which was once an inland port, the farthest upstream point ocean-going ships could reach along the Raritan ...

, an 18th-century inland port once located just downstream on the river. Since 1989, the Middlesex County Office of Arts and History has had responsibility for the village. File:East Jersey Olde Towne Village Sign, Middlesex County, NJ.jpg, Village entrance sign in 2014 File:East Jersey Olde Towne Village, north view.jpg, Courtyard view of the Smalleytown Schoolhouse and the Six Mile Run House

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* * * * {{Authority control Museums in Middlesex County, New Jersey Open-air museums in New Jersey Buildings and structures in Middlesex County, New Jersey Piscataway, New Jersey Pre-statehood history of New Jersey Vernacular architecture in New Jersey Historic American Buildings Survey in New Jersey

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