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Views: 4,092 Realtors’ History Guide to Selling Basking Ridge, Bernardsville, Bedminster and the Rest of the Somerset Hills, New Jersey It probably comes as no surprise that realtors have a fairly easy time selling homes in Bernards Township and the… Read More »History Helps Realtors Sell Real Estate
Views: 338 While we at the Mr. Local History Project prefer to write about history and not try to make it, sometimes history and perspective from other areas serve as indicators of what not to do, or at least give… Read More »Bernardsville’s Affordable Housing Dilemma – They’re Not Alone
Views: 1,727 The Millington Quarry property in the Millington section of Bernards Township is one of the largest former industrial sites in Somerset County and has been the focus of redevelopment discussions for more than a decade. Covering approximately 180… Read More »Meandering Basking Ridge’s Largest Lake – The Millington Quarry
Views: 509 Big News in the Jersey Burger World! Hackensack’s historic White Manna is going for it and made the decision to relocate one of New Jersey’s most iconic burger joints, lifting it up and moving it up the road,… Read More »Hackensack’s Historic White Manna Burger Diner is MOVING – And Going BIG
Views: 765 For centuries, historians have relied on books, letters, artifacts, and exhibits to tell the stories of the past. But what if visitors could do something more? What if they could actually sit down and have a conversation with… Read More »Meet HistOracle AI: New Jersey Team Brings History’s Voices Back to Life
Views: 8,024 Communicating Life Stories and Digital Storytelling For generations, family stories and personal memories were preserved through handwritten letters, photo albums, and conversations around the kitchen table. Today, those same stories can be recorded with a smartphone, shared across… Read More »Communicating Life Stories – Digital Storytelling Oral History
Views: 655 The iron rail that brought the steel horse to the Somerset Hills.This story is as much about the railroads that were built as it is about the railroads that weren’t. Railroad Companies of the Time Before we begin,… Read More »Railroad Men of The Somerset Hills
Views: 2,157 Word is out that David Burke, Chef and operator at the Red Horse Steakhouse at the Bernards Inn, will be transitioning “The Station” to one of his new restaurant ventures down the street at the historic Clarmont Hotel… Read More »Bernardsville’s Claremont Hotel & The Station History – and a New Chapter
Views: 1,558 At first, we thought it had to be a joke. It felt too absurd, too unthinkable, the kind of headline you only see on April Fool’s Day. But then reality hit. It was April 2. This was not… Read More »The Day the Bernardsville News Died
Views: 792 There’s something genuinely exciting happening right now for historians. For the first time, we have tools that can read, aggregate, and synthesize massive amounts of information in seconds, helping us connect sources, test ideas, and even visualize the… Read More »AI and History: Lessons Learned – Pluckemin Cantonment Edition
Views: 2,828 UPDATE:For 1 day only on Sunday, May 17, visitors can experience the “Millionaires Express” at the Whippany Railway Museum by riding in restored 1900s era luxury club cars once used by wealthy railroad travelers on New Jersey’s famed… Read More »The Millionaires Express Train – Luxury Between Hoboken & the Somerset Hills
Views: 3,457 The iron rail that brought the steel horse to the Somerset Hills.This story is as much about the railroads that were built as it is about the railroads that weren’t. As our researchers identify new pertinent information, this… Read More »The West Line Railroad: Fate That Created a Community Instead of an Industry
Views: 48,369 Update:On October 16, 2025, Michael Lewis celebrates the 15th anniversary of The Big Short with a series of live events in New York and Los Angeles, a new author-narrated audiobook release, and companion podcast episodes reflecting on the… Read More »The REAL Characters of The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Views: 3,862 Picture it: a warm afternoon on the water, a flash of colorful sail skimming across the waves. Chances are, it’s a Sunfish, the little boat that became a global phenomenon. By 1977, a year after OpSail in NYC… Read More »The Sunfish Sailboat – Fortune Magazine’s Top 25 Best Designed Products Until China Stepped In
Views: 4,464 The First Pocono Boathouse The story of the Pocono Boathouse retail establishment begins when, in 1965, Frank and Carolyn Betz built a chalet on the north side of Lake Naomi and opened a small but ambitious boating business… Read More »Pocono Boathouse History – A Lake Naomi Institution