Ongoing historical research on a variety of topics.
Views: 3,394 Retrospective: As with all Mr. Local History retrospectives, we often update the post when we learn stories and are sent photos from our internet community. We will continue to grow this piece as information becomes available. If you have… Read More »Retrospective: The Vote That Killed the Basking Ridge Historic District
Views: 3,765 The Mr. Local History Project took a moment out to answer a very simple set of questions of which we’ve learned many people just didn’t know the correct answer. The Somerset Hills is an area of northern Somerset… Read More »Most People Don’t Know The Meaning Behind These Town Names
Views: 1,817 What better way to share New Jersey’s local history then with games. In an effort to create a fun and entertaining teaching method, the Mr. Local History Project presents a number of interactive puzzles and games for kids… Read More »Program Pilot: Local History Games/Puzzles
Views: 1,008 For your consideration…… Late December and early January are great times to reflect on the year passed and stories that presented themselves. The Mr. Local History Project looks back at the top 10 stories uncovered for 2021 based… Read More »2021 Year In Review – Mr. Local History’s Top 10 Stories
Views: 20,406 The Mr. Local History Project (MLH) has been preserving and promoting Jersey’s local history since the non-profit was established in 2019. For this piece, we are on a mission to create the definitive online history of Krug’s Tavern,… Read More »Deep Dive: Krug’s Tavern – Preserving Newark’s History
Views: 21,020 Devil’s Tomb & Jacobs Ladder –Look what happened when Weird NJ Issue #12 came out. A place that sits quietly in obscurity for hundreds of years comes to an abrupt end when overzealous devil seekers search to find… Read More »Taking Jacobs Ladder to the Devil’s Tomb (Grave)
Views: 820 2021 Holiday MLH Magazine Mr. Local History Online Magazine – a free magazine with stories about local history and events in New Jersey. Our Holiday 2021 cover photo honors the beauty of the holidays in New Jersey. Pictured… Read More »Mr. Local History 2021 Holiday Vol 3. Issue 4
Views: 4,806 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: 2,222 Join the community on Saturday, December 3, 2022 in Bernardsville and Basking Ridge as they kick off the holiday season. Our Mr. Local History Holiday cards represent the best of the holidays for the villages of Bernardsville and… Read More »Holiday Greeting Cards are all about Local
Views: 1,827 What better way to give back to our hometown then to give not just one, but TWO trees to the community. The Mr. Local History elves present our 2021 editions called the “Tooth Fairy Tree” and “His-TREES” both… Read More »Tis the Season – Two Trees that Will Warm Your Heart
Views: 5,976 The world might have had a different look if it wasn’t for this day’s event.December 13, 1776 in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Basking Ridge, New Jersey’s most famous incident, occurred on December 13, 1776, at about noon. General… Read More »December 13, 1776 – The Day that Altered American History in Basking Ridge, New Jersey
Views: 4,524 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: 4,925 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 of the town center. What is now a distant memory, this… Read More »Retrospective: Winter as a Kid on Westfield’s Mindowaskin Pond
Views: 22,812 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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