Views: 483 New Jersey is such a great place to live, especially when it comes to celebrating our incredible mix of cultures and traditions! Just look at October. We’ve got the Italians celebrating their heritage, the Germans breaking out the… Read More »Jersey Oktoberfest: Historic Celebrations in Warren Township
Views: 1,423Walk into Bardy Farms on Washington Valley Road in Warren Township, and you are entering one of New Jersey’s increasingly rare family farm businesses. Fresh produce still fills the market, plants crowd the greenhouses in Spring, pumpkins arrive in… Read More »Bardy Farms: From a Russian Immigrant’s Fields to a Somerset County Farming Dynasty
Views: 1,619Maps are such a great source of history, and this 1766 map doesn’t disappoint those looking to learn more about Somerset County, New Jersey’s history. Completed in 1766 by surveyors Benjamin Morgan and Joseph Hills, the Morgan–Hills Map is… Read More »Five Landowners That Owned Half of Somerset County, New Jersey
Views: 5,518Want a quick way to search for articles about the history of one of the towns we love to cover?The Mr. Local History Project has created a few quick searches to give you a head start. Our researchers choose… Read More »Quicklinks – Tracking History From Selected Jersey Towns
Views: 25,224UPDATE: After decades of sitting in a pile of rubble behind Warren’s DPW, the iconic and sole surviving Egg-O-Mat has been restored and dedicated to the residents of Warren Township, New Jersey. The Egg-O-Mat, a beloved and unique piece… Read More »SAVED – Epstein Farm’s EggOmat in Warren Township, New Jersey
Views: 2,927The time – 1950s – the invention – The EggOmat, an egg vending machine enclosed in a wooden shed, born on Mountain Boulevard, across from the field that’s now home to municipal ballfields in Somerset County’s Warren Township, New… Read More »Does Warren’s EggOmat Deserve a Keepsake in the NJ Historic Wooden Village Collection? Vote
Views: 7,999Bridgewater was chartered in 1749, and Bernards Township was chartered in 1760. After the Revolutionary War, no Royal Charters were issued, so you had to incorporate through a vote in the New Jersey legislature after submitting a petition to… Read More »Warren was Bernards Township Then March 5, 1806 Happened
Views: 4,816Believe it or not, the dead are alive in central New Jersey, especially in northern Somerset County. The question is not whether they are real or not, but rather whether they are disturbing or friendly. As we share, the… Read More »Haunted Tales From Central New Jersey #3
Views: 5,051Less than half a mile down Green Brook Road in Green Brook, New Jersey, sits a sizable but inconspicuous old house. This house is known locally as the Dr. John Vermeule House or the Vermeule House (pronounced Ver-Mule). Through… Read More »Different Owners, Changing Times…Vermeule House in Green Brook Remains
The Mr. Local History Project explores the mysterious past of the tiny house on 32 Hillcrest Road, Warren Township. Before being surrounded by modern development, this rural area was once home to German-Jewish farmers escaping World War 2, and underwent… Read More »What Is That Tiny Green Gate House on Hillcrest Road in Warren Twp, New Jersey
Views: 16,163 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: 10,617They came from all over Jersey to the sleepy section of West Millington in Bernards Township for some of the freshest farm goods anyone could get anywhere. Once a quiet enclave a few miles north of Rt. 22 would… Read More »Remembering Dewy Meadow Farm and Those Chicken Pot Pies
Views: 10,346There are lots of Warrens in New Jersey. We are happy to announce that the Mr. Local History Project has started covering the Somerset County township. Going way back to the 1600s, honoring Warren for his service to our… Read More »Mapping Historic Icons in Warren Township, New Jersey
