Seabrook News - Seabrook Educational and Cultural Center

SPECIAL OPENING/Saturday in Seabrook on July 15, 2023. The SECC museum will be open from 10AM – 4PM at 1325 Highway 77 (UDT Municipal Building, lower level) and the OBON FESTIVAL will run from 5PM -8PM at Seabrook Buddhist Temple (SBT), Northville Road. Registration to attend the Festival is through the SBT.

CLOSINGS: SECC is closed beginning December 18, 2023 and will reopen on January 2, 2024, the month of August, all holidays recognized by Upper Deerfield Township and bad weather days when Upper Deerfield Township Schools are closed or opening late. Email seabrookhistory@gmail.com

LOCATION: We are located in the Upper Deerfield Township Municipal Building, located on Route 77 between 540 on the north and Carll’s Corner on the south. We are directly across from Franco’s Deli. GPS may direct you further south.

PARKING: Please park behind the UDT Municipal building near the UDT Senior Center. Walk down the handicap ramp on your left and use the buzzer. (The interior staircase is closed to visitors.) You will be buzzed into the lower level by the UDT Construction Office, and directed to the Ellen Nakamura Art Gallery where you will sign in as a museum visitor.

ACCESS TO OUR COLLECTION IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN:

SECC PHOTOGRAPHS/PUBLICATIONS: To view and use our photo collection and publications visit the New Jersey Digital Highway at https://njdigitalhighway.org/

SECC VIDEO AND INTERVIEWS: Certain interviews and videos have been uploaded onto YouTube so that they are most widely available to the public. Visit the Seabrook Educational and Cultural Center station at YouTube

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INTERNSHIPS AVAILABLE TO COLLEGE STUDENTS

February 10, 2020

PAID INTERNSHIPS AVAILABLE TO COLLEGE STUDENTS

SECC has been awarded grant funds for two interns who will catalog and perform as museum docents. Send letter of interest to Larry Ericksen, Executive Director at seabrookhistory@gmail.com

The SECC is devoted to telling the history of Seabrook Farms, an agribusiness and company town based in southern New Jersey. At peak production during the Second World War, the company employed 6,000 laborers in its fields, factories, and trucking fleet, and was a major supplier to the U.S. military. Faced with recurring labor shortages, Seabrook Farms partnered with the federal government to recruit stateless workers. Most prominently, this included 2,500 Japanese Americans who, after their forced removal from the West Coast to concentration camps, were paroled to government-approved employers. Following the war’s end, Seabrook Farms added Eastern European Displaced Persons from occupied Germany to its workforce, as well as Japanese Peruvians interned by the U.S. as enemy aliens and facing deportation to Japan. Seabrook Farms was also a destination for guestworkers from Barbados and Jamaica, and migrant farm laborers from the U.S. South and Appalachia. Founded in 1913 by C.F. Seabrook, a man described as the “Henry Ford of Agriculture,” Seabrook Farms was also famous for its technical and scientific contributions to the growth of industrialized agriculture, and for its political and social prominence as a company town in southern New Jersey.

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