Amy Curry

Amy Curry is the executive director of Morris County Historical Society (MCHS), a non-profit organization that owns and operates Acorn Hall. Since January, 2012, she has grown MCHS into a leading state history organization, securing nearly $4 million in grant funds for the preservation and restoration of Acorn Hall, its associated carriage house, and historic landscape, as well as $300,000 to support the county’s small history organization and fund key MCHS initiatives, such as the first county-wide survey of African American History & Historic Sites and NJ’s first Architectural Study Collection. Ms. Curry has also overseen the exponential growth, organization, and diversification of MCHS’s membership, collections, and archives.

A Massachusetts native, Ms. Curry came to MCHS following a supervisory tenure with the National Park Service and holds an MA in History, BS in Cultural & Natural Resource Management, BS in Forest Science, and AS in Urban Forestry. Her research related to post-emancipation soil erosion on the South Carolina Piedmont was published by Duke University in 2014.