CANCELED - Museum Day & Shippen Talks

Shippen Manor will be CLOSED and Shippen Talks CANCELED due to unforeseen circumstances. Denis Sullivan will be rescheduled for Nov. 13.

Docents will be available from 1-4pm. to greet visitors and share the history of the Manor, its people, and the local industrial history of Oxford. Offering tours of the main floor of the building, with the last tour beginning at 3:30 p.m.

From 2-3:30pm, local author Denis Sullivan will be discussing the "Oxford Tunnel Murders" that occurred in 1888 along the Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad in Washington Township, just on the other side of the Van Nest Tunnel from Oxford. Mr. Sullivan is a local historian who has written about a variety of topics that include a book titled, “In Defence of Her Honor”, which was about the murder of Tillie Smith on the Centenary University grounds in 1886 as well as several booklets about various topics pertaining to Warren County history. All of Mr. Sullivan’s book sales will be “cash only”.

There is no admission fee for the speaker or museum but seating is limited for the speaker series. Visitors interested in this talk are invited to gather in the lower level of the museum, accessible by the lower porch (door to the workers’ dining area). The doors will open at 1:45 p.m.

The Manor's rear parking will be open and has limited spaces. Please exercise caution and drive slowly as pedestrians may be on the driveway. This is a one-way only driveway, so please exit along the lower driveway and drive slowly. Our porch is not ADA accessible and there are a few steps to climb to get onto it. The talk is just inside the museum (door on porch) and there are no steps into the building other than the porch.