Hunter Research continues to nurture a productive side line in historic interpretive sign design. Over the past five years, mostly working with graphic designer Douglas Scott, our firm has completed signage for a number of choice historic sites, most notably Seneca Village in Central Park. This past Juneteenth a group of signs along with National Register of Historic Places plaques were unveiled at three of Trenton’s most revered Black landmarks – the Carver Center, the Higbee Street School and the Locust Hill Cemetery. A week later, five more signs were added at historical and geographic points of interest along the 20-mile Lawrence Hopewell Trail in the Princeton vicinity of New Jersey – a couple of mill sites (one with an iconic Warren pony truss bridge), a farm, a park and a drainage divide. Visit the history page at the LHT website for more information [link].
Meanwhile, several more sign projects are in process and will reach completion in the coming months. Among these are a family of signs for the William Trent House, a National Historic Landmark property in New Jersey’s capital city; a pair for the Divident Hill Monument in Weequahic Park in the City of Newark; and one on either end of the historic bridge crossing the Connecticut River between Lancaster, New Hampshire and Guildhall, Vermont. We view our signs as history’s friends, connecting the present and past for a decade or two into the future, and grounding us in the immediate reality of place.
