Mr. Local History Online Magazine – a free magazine with stories about local history and events in New Jersey.
Views: 37,087 Twenty-five years ago on September 11, 2001, we lost friends, family, neighbors, and loved ones in a tragedy that changed our nation forever. Their absence is felt every day, yet in the years since that heartbreaking morning, we… Read More »Then & Now: Post 9/11-Somerset Hills Family, Friends and Neighbors & Their Legacy
Views: 12,758 The Governor of New Jersey’s Historic Keepsake Village has decreed that a new icon should be added to the New Jersey Historic Wooden Village Collection, expanding the exclusive set of New Jersey collectible icons. Introducing the “Winter and… Read More »Keepsake: Basking Ridge Christmas Eve Caroling on the Green
Views: 5,630 It wouldn’t come as a surprise to most people that mining is the most prevalent industrial sector in Somerset County. According to mining database, “thediggings.com,” there have been 17 separate mining companies in Somerset County since the founding… Read More »The Bridgewater Copper Mines
Views: 5,553 If you live in Bernards Township, New Jersey, the Mr. Local History Project has written a few stories about the founding families of Basking Ridge for new residents to learn the history of the early Scottish and Dutch… Read More »Basking Ridge’s Genealogist and Historian Gets Digitized
Views: 9,925 Wouldn’t it be great you could gather a bunch of locals from the area to tell stories of how it used to be in the area? Maybe you grew up here? Whether you’re a teller or a listener,… Read More »Elder Voices Roundtable is BACK
Views: 24,763 It’s revered. It originates in Central and South America, dating back to the 1500s, and originated in the region now modern-day Mexico. Indigenous peoples in Central and South America, such as the Aztecs and Incas, were cultivating and… Read More »History of the Jersey Tomato
Views: 15,593 HELP THIS STORY: We are still looking for photos of the beer garden or any photos taken after 1970. We are also still researching the sale date to Warren Township and the final teardown date. Contact us if you… Read More »Remembering Warren’s Schwaebische Alb – a Jersey Oktoberfest Institution
Views: 12,935 The Washington Rochambeau Revolutionary Route (W3R) Goes Right Through Liberty Corner, the site of the English Farm that hosted 5,000+ soldiers during the march to Yorktown. This march ended with the defeat of the British and the defeat… Read More »English Farm – Liberty Corner’s Historic Gem & Rochembeau’s Rev War Stopover
