On display are items signed by stars of the first film, Adrienne King and Ari Lehman, picture stills from the film and what I thought was interesting were the bar stools from the luncheonette from the second scene of the film and the original ‘Diner’ sign from the Blairstown Diner before the restaurant’s renovation. The couple is collecting artifacts from the films (which there were not much since it was shot on location). This part of the museum is dedicated to the first film and subsequent films. The Friday the 13th Museum at 27 Main Street The second museum is across the street is the Friday the 13th Museum at 27 Main Street and that museum is dedicated to the movie “Friday the 13th” that was shot in the town in 1979. The exhibition discussed how it was created and how it developed. The last exhibition was on the history and creation of Victorian furniture. There was an exhibition on the early resort history of the area by the Delaware Water Gap by Hotelier Antoine Dutot, who ran the Kittatinny Hotel resort in the late 1880’s. The exhibition was on the development of the early railroads. There was another exhibition on John Insley Blair, one of the residents and a self-made businessman and entrepreneur, for whom the town and the private school are named after.Īnother exhibition was on local resident, Robert Parsons Howell, who had moved to Havana, Cuba at the turn of the last century. While I was visiting, there was an interesting exhibition on the Blair Family who had married into the Charles Scribner Publishing family and a little history behind the two families. This museum concentrates on the history of the founding of the town and the residents in it. The first one is the Blairstown Historical Museum that covers the history of the town.

The museum is actually two different museums. The museum was founded in 2015 and opened in 2016. The interesting part of this museum is that it is not run by the town but by a local couple, Janette and Frank Iurato, who moved to the area in 2013 and took an interest in the history of the town. The Blairstown Museum is a facility housing the history of the town of Blairstown and the surrounding area. Open: Sunday-Thursday Closed/ Friday & Saturday 11:00am-5:00pm

Howell township historical museum