Do you love local history? How much do you think you know about Bedminster, New Jersey?
Ready to take a fun quiz? The Mr. Local History Project has put together some thought-provoking questions about your town. So, if you live here, it’s time to test your knowledge. We think that this match game is suitable for locals only. You be the judge 🙂 The quiz is simple. Each question on the left-hand side has a corresponding answer on the right-hand side. Simply click the button on the question and the corresponding button that you think is the correct answer. Have fun and good luck.
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Answers and Scoring
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More Bedminster Local History
Pluckemin/Middlebrook Historic Series – Tell America
Views: 3,364 “Pluck-em-in” and America 250 – Perfect Together. Get to know this Great American History Story. Pluckemin, New Jersey, pronounced “PLUCK um in“, carries three enduring name stories. Some trace it to a Lenape word for persimmon tied to…
Was Pluckemin America’s First Military Academy? Expert Breaks Silence & Takes Position
Views: 570 Historic archeologist drops a verbal bombshell announcement at a New Jersey conference: The Rev War Pluckemin Cantonment WAS America’s first military academy, confirming the construction was done 24 years before the United States Military Academy at West Point.Dr.…
Remembering Gun and Rod Clubs Around Schley Mountain in the Somerset Hills
Views: 755 From Rev War Soldiers to Gliders to Gun & Rod Clubs: The Transition on Schley Mountain There is no well-documented evidence of a formal, dedicated police or public shooting range in the “The Hills” development itself. But we’re…
Middlebrook Symposium – Pluckemin’s Rev War Academy Analysis with Dr. John Seidel
Views: 928 Pluckemin, New Jersey, pronounced “PLUCK um in“, carries three enduring name stories. Some trace it to a Lenape word for persimmon tied to early Algonquian place terms. Others repeat the roadside tale of tavern keeper Jacob Eoff, who…
Northside or Southside – Train Determines Socio Economic Town Dynamics
Views: 1,002 Part of our Mr. Local History Train Series….. For years, the Mr. Local History research team has been digging into New Jersey’s railroad history. As we traced old rail lines town by town, something curious began to appear…
Passaic Valley & Peapack and the West Line Railroad – What if the West Line Succeeded?
Views: 467 A Retrospective The Mr. Local History Project conducted a deep dive into the beginnings of railroads in New Jersey, focusing on east-west corridors that sought to connect Pennsylvania with New York through New Jersey’s crossroads. Long before the…
Twenty-Four Years Before America’s West Point Military Academy (USMA) There was Pluckemin
Views: 201,659 America’s First Military Academy, the Pluckemin Academy (Dec.1778), was 24 Years BEFORE West Point (March 16, 1802). One of the greatest untold stories of the American Revolution.The Pluckemin Winter Cantonment, part of the overall Middlebrook Encampment of 1778-1779.…
Cockfighting in the Somerset Hills – How Times Have Changed
Views: 1,331 Picture a country barn set back from the road. Cars parked along a tree line, never too close together. Men arriving quietly, some local, others from out of town. Inside, cages line the walls and a small pit…
The 13 Paintings at the 1779 Pluckemin Academy’s French Alliance Ball Grand Pavillon
Views: 12,524 The anniversary of America’s Alliance with France was celebrated on February 18, 1779, at Pluckemin, New Jersey, at a very elegant entertainment and display of fireworks given by General Knox and the officers of artillery. It was postponed…
New Jersey Rev War Series Mr. Local History Project
Views: 15,403 New Jersey is known as the “Cockpit of the American Revolution” for a reason – because it was. More battles, more encampments, more strategies took place in New Jersey than in any other colony of the original thirteen.…
Retrospective: Lost & Torn Down Memories From the Somerset Hills
Views: 6,432 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 expand this piece as information becomes available. If you have any stories to…
Quicklinks – Tracking History From Selected Jersey Towns
Views: 4,461 Want 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…
The Tale of Two Bedminsters
Views: 19,852 Sister Towns in New Jersey and England Share a Common Bond – and a Name How fun was it when our friends across the pond contacted us, inquiring about what they were calling a “sister town” in New…
The Stolen Lillie Drawing of Pluckemin Artillery Park
Views: 1,255 The wind that swept across the Somerset Hills in the bitter winter of 1779 carried more than snow and smoke. It carried the sound of hammers striking timber, the commands of officers echoing across the ridges, and the…
Colonial Christmas To Shine Again at Bedminster’s Vanderveer House
The Jacobus Vanderveer House in Bedminster, New Jersey, is celebrating Colonial Christmas, an annual fundraiser event that combines history, tourism, tradition, and Christmas spirit. It offers an array of activities including music, reenactments, crafts, and holiday shopping.
Share Pluckemin Cantonment History With A Pocket Park – America 250 Ideas
Views: 1,820 With America’s 250th anniversary just around the corner, there’s no better time to recognize great American history about what we’ve coined “The Greatest Story Never Told” about the American Revolution – The Academy that came 24 years before…
Gliders Soar at Historic Schley Field in Liberty Corner, New Jersey
Views: 4,115 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.…
Historic Moment at the Pluckemin Cantonment – Archeologist Finds His Mark
Views: 3,130 It was a cold, winterish April afternoon at the Jacobus Vanderveer House in Bedminster, New Jersey, as a very special guest came to tell his story about what has become a signature event in the history of the…
The Hills Church & Cemetery & Pluckemin’s Pigtail Mountain
Views: 2,926 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,…
Ice Cream History around the Somerset Hills
Views: 11,326 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”). The first official account of ice cream in the New World dates back…
New Jersey Hills are Alive with Distilling History
Views: 13,644 Distilling Revival across New Jersey and a Renaissance New Jersey has a deep history of distilling spirits that goes back to colonial times. The Somerset Hills is an area in central New Jersey’s Somerset County, comprising six similar…
The Besties – The Best of the Best in Basking Ridge, Bernardsville, Bedminster in Northern Somerset County
Views: 20,120 2026 Suggestions? Drop Us a Note We dare to compare! Bedminster, Bernardsville, Basking Ridge, Far Hills, Peapack/Gladstone, also known as The Somerset Hills. It’s time for a real discussion about where to get the best things, based on…
Meet the Historians Series – Bedminster Township’s Dutzie Robbie
Views: 1,460 UPDATE:The Mr. Local History Project Research Team is seeking Bedminster historians with whom we can collaborate. If you know of someone who has a deep knowledge of Bedminster, NJ history, please drop us a note and let us…
The Boylans American Journey to Build Liberty Corner, Pluckemin and Bernardsville
Views: 4,784 Research Update:Are the Boylans and the Bullions the same family in Liberty Corner? Before Liberty Corner was Liberty Corner, it was Annins Corner AND we also found it named Boylans Corner (Bullions Corner). And what about that Bernardsville…
UPDATE: Evicted – Non-Profit Friends of Vanderveer House Vacate Bedminster Property
Views: 6,336 October 11, 2025While on a dual-purpose visit to Bedminster, MLHP stopped by to see the 2025 Bedminster Fall Fest and the 2025 Somerset County History Weekend, a county-wide celebration of history that includes the Jacobus Vanderveer House. While…
Grand History of the US Equestrian Team Foundation in Gladstone, New Jersey
Views: 3,654 United States Equestrian Team Foundation Headquarters Hamilton Farm – Gladstone, New Jersey You must thank James Cox Brady of Bedminster, Peapack, the Wall Street Financier, for his vision for his “million-dollar coach barn.” Let’s Start with the History…
The Exclusive New Jersey Historic Wooden Village Keepsake Collection
Views: 16,469 The MLH Project is proud to be the exclusive reseller of the New Jersey Historic Wooden Keepsake Collection, created by the world-famous Cat’s Meow Village. Made in the USA!!! The New Jersey Historic Wooden Keepsake Village Collection The…
Non-Consecutive Term Presidents: Jersey’s Grover Cleveland and Now Donald Trump
Views: 8,981 Presidents #22 and #24 and Now #45 and #47 – Only Two Presidents to Serve Non-Consecutive Terms. Here’s how four presidential elections went down. Grover Cleveland, a Democrat, defeated Republican James G. Blaine of Maine and became the…
The Lost Lake Beneath the Hills: The Forgotten Silk City of Pluckemin
Views: 1,833 The “Lyons (France) of New Jersey” Then came industry. In July 1910 the Bernardsville News ran a whimsical headline: “The Lyons of New Jersey.” The article announced the arrival of “Big Bob” McCullough of Paterson, a larger-than-life entrepreneur…
Who Brings Their Jersey Village Collectibles out Just for the Holidays?
Views: 1,589 We have been told a terrible rumor. Is it true? Do some people bring out their Jersey Cat’s Meow collectibles only for the holidays? Read on…. Yes, we have been told many people bring out their Cat’s Meow…
Businesses Lost In Somerset Hills, New Jersey this Past Century
Views: 5,000 The Mr. Local History project has been researching and working with the public to create the most complete list of lost businesses in the Somerset Hills in northern Somerset County, New Jersey. The Somerset Hills includes Bedminster, Bernards…
President Trump’s Historic Summer White House in Bedminster, New Jersey
Views: 186,350 In a sleepy equestrian area in the Somerset Hills of central New Jersey, the former President of the United States still comes to summer at a house with a storied history. The Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster,…
Remembering Willie Howard and Bedminster’s Willie’s Tavern
Views: 6,145 Often, Mr. Local History doesn’t search for stories as those stories find us. Case in point is this weird little story about a man who comes to America only to find that his life is remembered after Basking…