At the Arcadia Museum

The Arcadia Historical Museum is open Saturdays, year round, from 1-3 p.m., at 120 High St., Newark. (The museum is located across the street from the Newark Public Library, which houses the Hoffman Clock Museum.)

Special exhibit, 'The C.H. Stuart Co.: From Stuart Bros. Nursery to Sarah Coventry,' continues at the museum.

The exhibition features many artifacts and photographs from the internationally-known C.H. Stuart Co., founded in Newark in 1864. The Stuart Co. was actually comprised of about 20 separate companies involved in the direct selling (door-to-door and home parties) of jewelry, cosmetics, nursery stock, silver-plated and Sterling, china, household products, spices, medicines and more.

The company became most well-known for its Caroline Emmons and Sarah Coventry fine fashion jewelry, first started in 1949.

The Museum also features Jackson & Perkins Co. & their world-famous rose gardens room, Newark milk and beverage bottles, quilts and more.

Admission is always free. The museum has a gift shop. For further information on the museum or the Arcadia Historical Society, please phone Chris Davis, President, 331.4078 or 331.6409.

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