Ongoing historical research on a variety of topics.
Views: 21,330 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: 909 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: 5,233 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 who has taken cartography to a whole new level, overlaying history on… Read More »Somerset Hills Cartographer John Smith Maps Local History
Views: 2,283 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: 1,916 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: 6,174 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: 5,272 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: 5,133 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: 23,154 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
The Mr. Local History Project is a 501c3 nonprofit charity history organization run entirely by volunteers. We have two goals: to create an ongoing scholarship fund to be presented annually to a senior high school recipient, to promote local history, and to create programs with a social twist. Your pledge will fully support those two efforts.
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Each year the Mr. Local History Project works with area high schools to make an unrestricted scholarship to a worthy senior.
Please help us continue this annual tradition.
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Mr. Local History Project Giving Campaign
184 W. Oak Street, Suite 101
Basking Ridge, NJ 07920
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Views: 1,897 This update was from previous tree lightings when the Mr. Local History Project joined with the annual Winter Market and official tree lighting in downtown Basking Ridge. Friends and family join us for an afternoon of shopping, crafts,… Read More »Basking Ridge Official Tree Lighting & Winter Market
Views: 10,702 Known as The Race of Gentlemen, the event has been revived since the 1950s by a local club called the Oilers of New Jersey. For one weekend in early October, racers, gassers, and fans gather on the beach… Read More »TROG – The Race of Gentlemen – Pure Jersey History Right in Front of Your Eyes
Views: 13,076 Is William Alexander, aka The Earl & Lord of Stirling, Basking Ridge’s Most Famous Resident? Let’s see if we can answer that question. William Alexander (1726 – Jan 15, 1783) was the son of Secretary & lawyer James… Read More »Lord Stirling- Basking Ridge’s Most Famous Resident
Views: 5,958 Celebrating over 100 years of New Jersey’s fall classic, the Far Hills Race Meeting, with this beautiful wooden hand painted collectible as part of the New Jersey Historic Village Cat’s Meow wooden keepsake collection. Beautifully handcrafted wood, hand-painted… Read More »Far Hills Race Meeting Honored with Painted Wooden Collectible
Views: 3,442 2021 – Fall MLH Magazine Mr. Local History Magazine’s Fall 2021 Edition – a free magazine with stories about local history and events in New Jersey. Our Fall 2021 cover photo honors the history of the Far Hills… Read More »Mr. Local History 2021 Fall Magazine Vol 3. Issue 3