Being open for 50+ years, the museum has accumulated an overwhelming amount of artifacts – all with a unique backgrounds involving Kings County.
Guests can explore the many different books and stories about Kings County history that are for sale, and the museum also offers genealogy research.
[1] Originally built in 1840 and located in Kingston, the granite blocks of the jail were dismantled and hauled piece by piece from Kingston to Hampton by oxen and horses over road and the ice of the Kennebecasis River in 1871, when Hampton became the new shire-town of Kings County.
The jailer and his family lived right next door in an addition made to the original gaol building that is connected by a doorway on the first level.
The members of the society have worked to record and preserve Kings County heritage through artifacts, research, genealogy documentations and place histories.