Post Views: 2,100 Many people may not know that the 12 acre pocket of land on the corner of Main Street and Peapack Gladstone Road has served as the crossroads of Far Hills going back farther than the towns formation… Read More »Retrospective: J. Malcolm Belcher & The Far Hills Fairgrounds – Home to the VNA Rummage Sale
Post Views: 1,898 Schools in the Somerset Hills area of northern Somerset County have been a mainstay back to the mid-1700s. We honor the history of these memorable facilities in images from various sources now in our digital research archives.… Read More »MLH Honors Back to School with Historic School Images From the Somerset Hills
Post Views: 5,218 UPDATE: June 12, 2020 – The Mr. Local History Project is SOOOO excited to introduce the expansion of our Historic Somerset Hills Cat’s Meow Village, the Natirar Estate in Peapack and Far Hills, New Jersey. Only a… Read More »The Gilded Age: Natirar Estate in Peapack/Far Hills, New Jersey
Post Views: 4,131 Tucked in the northern section of Somerset County, New Jersey, the area known as the Somerset Hills has a rich history that Mr. Local History is proud to document. Each property was researched prior to submitting documentation… Read More »Somerset Hills Historic Sites on the National & State Registers
Post Views: 35,985 Weird New Jersey Launches an all out attack on the horrible tales of what went wrong inside the Blairsden Estate in Peapack, New Jersey. This article originally was posted on another site back in 2007. We thought… Read More »Blairsden- The Horror, The Nuns and Other Tales
Post Views: 7,243 Historical Perspective: The Blairsden Estate of Clinton Ledyard Blair Peapack/Gladstone, New Jersey Submitted: Brooks Betz & W. Barry Thomson Blairsden Background Out of all of the requests that we receive at Mr. Local History, none measure up… Read More »The Gilded Age: The Blairsden Estate
Post Views: 8,985 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… Read More »Finding the Truth About the KKK in Basking Ridge & the Somerset Hills
Post Views: 31,444 The Blairsden Estate in Peapack Gladstone, New Jersey, is certainly one of the greatest examble of beaux arts mansions in the United States. For a short thirty day window this private estate is open to the public… Read More »Historic Blairsden Estate Opens to Public
Post Views: 7,200 To expand on an earlier post: The PLOT THICKENS… Jacob’s Ladder #2 – So I kept digging about Jacobs Ladder. Not that I wanted to, but the internet has it’s way of bringing information right to my… Read More »Peapack has a Jacobs Ladder too!