Join us on Sunday, July 27 at 12 PM for the sixth and final lecture in historian Patricia Salmon’s Historic Neighborhoods of Staten Island series. Clay was king in Kreischerville, as was Balthazar Kreischer from the mid-nineteenth century onward. Learn about the community now known as Charleston from the days of the Lenape to the massive clay pits that yielded enough product for thousands of bricks. Churches, cemeteries, schools and the immigrants who settled and inhabited this oasis of industry will also be discussed, as will the always fascinating Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve, New York City's only State Park Preserve.

This event is FREE with museum admission.