Mr. Local History Online Magazine – a free magazine with stories about local history and events in New Jersey.
Views: 39,229Twenty-five years ago on September 11, 2001, we lost friends, family, neighbors, and loved ones in a tragedy that changed our nation forever. Their absence is felt every day, yet in the years since that heartbreaking morning, we have… Read More »Then & Now: Post 9/11-Somerset Hills Family, Friends and Neighbors & Their Legacy
Views: 12,904The Governor of New Jersey’s Historic Keepsake Village has decreed that a new icon should be added to the New Jersey Historic Wooden Village Collection, expanding the exclusive set of New Jersey collectible icons. Introducing the “Winter and Christmas… Read More »Keepsake: Basking Ridge Christmas Eve Caroling on the Green
Views: 5,821It wouldn’t come as a surprise to most people that mining is the most prevalent industrial sector in Somerset County. According to mining database, “thediggings.com,” there have been 17 separate mining companies in Somerset County since the founding of… Read More »The Bridgewater Copper Mines
Views: 5,774If you live in Bernards Township, New Jersey, the Mr. Local History Project has written a few stories about the founding families of Basking Ridge for new residents to learn the history of the early Scottish and Dutch settlers… Read More »Basking Ridge’s Genealogist and Historian Gets Digitized
Views: 10,102 Wouldn’t it be great you could gather a bunch of locals from the area to tell stories of how it used to be in the area? Maybe you grew up here? Whether you’re a teller or a listener,… Read More »Elder Voices Roundtable is BACK
Views: 25,569It’s revered. It originates in Central and South America, dating back to the 1500s, and originated in the region now modern-day Mexico. Indigenous peoples in Central and South America, such as the Aztecs and Incas, were cultivating and consuming… Read More »History of the Jersey Tomato
Views: 16,193 Our retrospective begins just after Prohibition, when a chicken ranch became Warren’s Schwaebische Alb restaurant, which opened in 1935 at 142 Washington Valley Road in Warren Township, New Jersey. This retrospective takes you back to the Schwaebische Alb’s beginnings and… Read More »Remembering Warren’s Schwäbische Alb – a Jersey Oktoberfest Institution
Views: 13,460The Washington Rochambeau Revolutionary Route (W3R) Goes Right Through Liberty Corner, the site of the English Farm that hosted 5,000+ soldiers during the march to Yorktown. This march ended with the defeat of the British and the defeat of… Read More »English Farm – Liberty Corner’s Historic Gem & Rochembeau’s Rev War Stopover
