Central Jersey’s only musem dedicated to African American history is hoping to expand. The Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum (SSAAM) is applying for funding from the state’s Green Acres Program to buy property on Hollow Road on Sourland Mountain. The purchase will expand the nonprofit museum’s African American history campus and and allow for the preservation of an additional historic site. SSAAM is located at the National Historic Register-listed Mt. Zion AME Church and the historic Reasoner/True House − sites that have been home to African Americans in the Sourlands for generations. SSAAM applied for funding through the state Department of
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