Views: 4,449 National Award Winning Landscape Architect Lives and Breathes History with His Map Creations. The Mr. Local History Project introduces you to a dear friend and history connoisseur that has taken cartography to a whole new level overlaying history… Read More »Retrospective: Somerset Hills Cartographer John Smith Maps Local History
Views: 4,180 Childhood Winters in Cranford, New Jersey Or as I like to say “Memories from the Frozen Venice of New Jersey.” Retrospective: As a writer for New Jersey’s Mr. Local History Project I recently wrote about skating on a… Read More »Retrospective: Winter as a Kid on Cranford’s Rahway River
Views: 4,509 One of the best memories growing up in Westfield, New Jersey was winter skating on an iconic pond that sat adjacent to the Municipal Building just east off the town center. What is now a distant memory, this… Read More »Retrospective: Winter as a Kid on Westfield’s Mindowaskin Pond
Views: 21,824 Basking Ridge, New Jersey’s Most Famous Incident At about noon on December 13, 1776, General Charles Lee (1731-1782) was alarmed by Major Wilkinson while he was writing a letter to General Gates about George Washington in an upstairs… Read More »Widow White’s Tavern in Basking Ridge was more than a Grog Stop
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Views: 1,623 Join friends and family with the Mr. Local History families for an afternoon that will put you in the holiday spirit. It’s the 7th Annual Winter Market and Tree Lighting in the Basking Ridge village. The entire event… Read More »Family Fun and Tree Lighting Dec. 4, 2021
Views: 11,647 Is William Alexander aka The Earl & Lord of Stirling, Basking Ridge’s Most Famous Resident? Let’s see if we can answer that question. William Alexander was considered heir to the Scottish title of Earl of Stirling through Scottish… Read More »Lord Stirling- Basking Ridge’s Most Famous Resident
Views: 5,359 Celebrating over 100 years of New Jersey’s fall classic, the Far Hills Race Meeting, with this beautiful wooden hand painted collectible as part of the New Jersey Historic Village Cat’s Meow wooden keepsake collection. Beautifully handcrafted wood, hand… Read More »Far Hills Race Meeting Honored with Painted Wooden Collectible
Views: 4,167 How’s life in Basking Ridge? Well click the play button and take a look. Basking Ridge Village Web Cam Special thanks to David Kippel for his efforts. Post a comment below.
Views: 1,947 The Mr. Local History project often digs into multiple archives looking for evidence of the areas collective past. But this one got us scratching our heads. There is no doubt that Bernards Township is named after Sir Francis… Read More »Is it Bernard or Bernards? Hummm
Views: 7,347 People often wonder how people come to populate an area and how it develops. In Somerset County, the first settlers came for the fertile land from Scotland and the Netherlands. But then something happened. Mining speculators started appearing… Read More »Retrospective: Bernardsville’s Historic Somerset Inn (Hotel)
Views: 21,322 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… Read More »Bedminster History – Look To the Old Mellick Farmhouses