Next time the kids complain about their chores or school, a trip to the Camden County Historical Society is in order. The Society’s Museum wing features an old-fashioned one-room school house - complete with dunce cap and pot-bellied wood stove - an extensive collection of tools, including a fabric loom and farming equipment, carriages, sleds and other vehicles that took w-a-y longer to get where they were going than today’s cars. There’s even an old-fashioned hand-pump fire engine to capture youngsters’ imaginations.

For architecture buffs, Pomona Hall, one of the Camden Historical Society’s three buildings, is known as one of New Jersey’s best examples of Georgian architecture. By 21st century standards it might look pretty stark, but a few centuries ago, the folks who lived here were living in the lap of luxury.

In an adjoining museum wing, two floors of exhibits cover everything from the Lenape Indians and Civil War artifacts to weaving, blacksmithing and local industrial history.

If you are interested in finding out the doings of your great-great-grandsomethings, the research library boasts more than 20,000 volumes for genealogists, maps, official documents and other materials that make it a favorite for researchers. Examples of other exhibits feature photos, clothing, and other artifacts that tell the stories of South Jersey from its earliest days up to modern times.