#911neverforget in the Somerset Hills

On a clear crisp morning at 8:46am on September 11, 2001, the first plane hit the north tower and our community was changed forever. Please take a moment to remember those 21 residents from Basking Ridge, Bernardsville and Peapack that never came home that day. This is our tribute to the families. #wewillneverforget.

The family we lost on 9/11 in the Somerset Hills.

2023 September 11 Remembrance Ceremonies

Somerset County Courthouse Green – Monday, 9/11/2023 from 8:45 AM – 9:30 AM
Honor the memory of the 39 county residents who died in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 in front of the Historic Courthouse in Somerville. The ceremony on Monday, Sept. 11, to commemorate the 22^nd anniversary of the terrorist attacks. The event will begin at 8:46 a.m., the time that the first plane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
Bernards Township – The township will be conducting a ceremony of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America. The ceremony is scheduled for Monday, 9/11 at 6 p.m. at the township’s 9/11 Memorial at 490 Somerville Road in Basking Ridge at the Harry Dunham Park 9/11 Memorial, just off the Liberty Corner Road parking lot.

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Bernards Township was one of the hardest hit communities in the state on 9/11. The 18 township residents lost that day was the fourth highest total of any town in New Jersey, after Jersey City, Hoboken and Middletown Township.

KEVIN DENNIS-Peapack — David Campbell-51-Basking-Ridge

There were seven others who perished in the attacks who had connections to the Somerset Hills area including:

Debbie Fischer Gibbon of Long Valley, a 1975 Ridge High School graduate
Barbara G. Edwards of Las Vegas, Nev., who had lived in the township in the 1980s.
All of whom had relatives in the Somerset Hills
- James Berger
- Thomas E. Gorman
- Anthony Infante Jr.
- Thomas P. Knox
- Joseph Mascali

The nearby Liberty Corner firehouse on Church Street in Liberty Corner also has a 9/11 memorial that honors the firefighters who died saving others that day. To help fund the memorial, the volunteer fire company made available for purchase 343 memorial bricks, representing the 343 Fire Department of New York firefighters who gave their lives in the terrorist attack.

The *Tribute in Lights* memorial beacons will again honor the fallen for one night on September 11th. Our view is from the pier in Jersey City.

A memorial plaque placed outside the Basking Ridge train station on Depot Place.

UPDATE: Looking for the Light:

The MLH Project just released a new piece on the community members we lost. For the first time in one place, earn about the people and their families.

#911neverforget-Somerset Hills Family Friends and Neighbors & Their Stories

UPDATE: If there is a foundation or supporting organization honoring those lost, please let us know and we will update their legacy here with the good work being done in their honor. Submit Here.