Bernards Township
MLHP History Gift Shop
Views: 7,268 Jersey is all we do. We make each of these collectibles to promote New Jersey history, as our motto states: “History with a Social Twist.” Whether it’s our Wear Local History collection, flags, wooden keepsakes, or other items,… Read More »MLHP History Gift Shop
Bernards Township’s 2025 Political Earthquake – First in Almost a Century
Views: 549 Bernards Township Political Map Goes Blue, Changing the Political Landscape for the First Time in almost 100 years. First of all, this is not a political post, and it is not meant to take sides on candidates or… Read More »Bernards Township’s 2025 Political Earthquake – First in Almost a Century
Honoring WW2 Veterans Book In Service – 1941-1944 Now Online
Views: 474 Mr. Local History’s “Operation Honor Roll” Celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, honoring ALL those Bernards Township residents who have served in our military. We’re seeking volunteers to undertake this ambitious endeavor “In Service 1941-1944”: The Somerset Hills Military Service… Read More »Honoring WW2 Veterans Book In Service – 1941-1944 Now Online
Operation Honor Roll Looks for Help To Indentify ALL Bernards Armed Services Active Duty & Veterans
Views: 1,921 UPDATE: Volunteer as a researcher to help validate the list. Draft letters are being prepared to send to veteran organizations, and validation of the Bernards Township Honor Roll is underway. The initial list is now available online for… Read More »Operation Honor Roll Looks for Help To Indentify ALL Bernards Armed Services Active Duty & Veterans
Bernards Plateau and the Bernards Commons Community – Every Home Faces a Shared Park
Views: 664 1930s: Bernards Plateau and the 60-acre Bernards Commons & Decker’s Park Community Project The Bernards Plateau was named for the broad upland just west of the Basking Ridge village center, located just across Route 287 today, an area… Read More »Bernards Plateau and the Bernards Commons Community – Every Home Faces a Shared Park
Dr. Robert Finley, Founder of a Classical Prep School and the American Colonization Society
Views: 8,470 Dr. Robert Finley’s Work To Help Blacks, Defeat Slavery, and Colonize Liberia Original Post: October 19, 2000Updated: October 26, 2025 An abolitionist, as the name implies, is a person who sought to abolish slavery during the 19th century.… Read More »Dr. Robert Finley, Founder of a Classical Prep School and the American Colonization Society
1930 – Lyons Glider Field: Where New Jersey’s Soaring Story Began
Views: 874 Before the Schley Glider Field rose to fame in Liberty Corner, New Jersey, a quiet field in the Lyons section of Bernards Township launched the state’s first glider site for a generation of aviators. Lyons Glider Field The… Read More »1930 – Lyons Glider Field: Where New Jersey’s Soaring Story Began
Thanksgiving Proclamation Way Before Lincoln Did It -Thanks Jersey Guys
Views: 1,031 While history recognizes President Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation, many don’t know that two New Jersey statesmen persuaded President George Washington to declare the last Thursday in November “a day of thanks” across the new American nation. On October… Read More »Thanksgiving Proclamation Way Before Lincoln Did It -Thanks Jersey Guys
Gliders Soar at Historic Schley Field in Liberty Corner, New Jersey
Views: 1,751 In the mid-1930s, after the Schley Field opened for Glider Competitions, the glider game changed. However, there was a glider field just east in the same town, which began attracting aviators to the Lyons section of Bernards Township.… Read More »Gliders Soar at Historic Schley Field in Liberty Corner, New Jersey
The Hills Church & Cemetery & Pluckemin’s Pigtail Mountain
Views: 1,186 In the early 1700s, German Lutherans settled around Pluckemin and established one of the region’s first congregations. By 1715, they had built a small log church on what is the Second Watchung Mountain, known also as Pigtail Mountain,… Read More »The Hills Church & Cemetery & Pluckemin’s Pigtail Mountain
Bill Beatty and the Hills Haunted Phareloch Castle
Views: 15,271 Tucked below the Hills on a quiet cul-de-sac in the Liberty Corner section of Bernards Township, New Jersey, sits a turreted French Norman-style castle known to locals as Pharelock Castle. Very few locals remember the sad story about… Read More »Bill Beatty and the Hills Haunted Phareloch Castle
Bring Back the Thanksgiving Ridge vs. Bernards Turkey Bowl
Views: 2,463 🏈 The Ridge–Bernards Thanksgiving Day Turkey Bowl Rivalry. We could hold our tongue no more. It needs to come back so we had to tell the history and why we’d love to get it back. Small-Town Thanksgiving Tradition… Read More »Bring Back the Thanksgiving Ridge vs. Bernards Turkey Bowl
Paranormal Oddities at Basking Ridge’s Astor Estate Town Hall
Views: 3,800 👻 The 3rd Floor “Spirit of the Astor Estate” in Basking Ridge. A spirit has haunted owners and workers wandering the third floor causing ghostly havoc at times.Reported by a number of Bernards Township Employees at the Astor… Read More »Paranormal Oddities at Basking Ridge’s Astor Estate Town Hall
Then & Now: Post 9/11-Somerset Hills Family Friends and Neighbors & Their Legacy
Views: 24,928 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 also witnessed… Read More »Then & Now: Post 9/11-Somerset Hills Family Friends and Neighbors & Their Legacy