Category: Bedminster

Reflection: Ice Cream around Somerset Hills

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Think back to simple times. Grab an ice cream and forget about EVERYTHING!

Post Views: 141 July is national ice cream month, so it’s time for Mr. Local History’s look back at the history, the good fun (and some “good humor”). NOTE: As with all Mr. Local History retrospectives, we often update the post when we learn stories and are sent photos from our community. We will continue to grow this piece as information becomes available. Mr. Local History Project The first official account of ice cream in the New World comes from a letter written in 1744 by a guest of Maryland’s Governor…

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The History of President Trump’s Summer White House

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Trump Summer Whitehouse Bedminster Mr Local History Project

Post Views: 7,360 In a sleepy quiet horse and farming area in the Somerset Hills of New Jersey, the most powerful man in the world comes to summer at a house with a storied history. The Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey now known as President Trump’s Summer White House occupies 535 acres of rambling countryside in central New Jersey, 45 minutes away from New York City. Most of the property was once the private estate of John DeLorean, the auto industry playboy whose stainless-steel car is remembered best in its…

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Finding the Truth About the KKK in Basking Ridge & the Somerset Hills

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KKK in Basking Ridge - Mr Local History

Post Views: 5,097 NOTE: As with all Mr. Local History retrospectives, we often update the post when we learn stories and are sent photos from our community. We will continue to grow this piece as information becomes available. History is a strange thing. The myth often outweighs the truth in many cases sometimes distorting the truth just to make a better story. Sometimes it’s like the game where you whisper something to someone, then they whisper to the next and by the tenth person hears the whisper, the story is totally…

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Bedminster History – Look To the Old Mellick Farmhouses

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Post Views: 10,543 If you live in the Somerset Hills area around Bedminster and Tewksbury you hopefully have heard the name Mellick. The Mellick name goes back to one of the founding family names in the area. In fact, the name Mellick acquired three different spellings. In those days the people in charge of registering land titles and other legal documents spelled names as they sounded. The Bedminster branch became Mellick, the Tewksbury branch Melick, and a few spelled it Malick. There was a standing joke in the Melick family…

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