Views: 3,622 Welcome to the Summer Edition of the Mr. Local History Magazine! Every summer, we dive headfirst into what we love most—celebrating New Jersey’s incredible place in America’s story. As the “Cockpit of the American Revolution,” New Jersey holds… Read More »Mr. Local History 2025 Summer Magazine Vol 7. Issue 2
Views: 3,353 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… Read More »The Boylans American Journey to Build Liberty Corner, Pluckemin and Bernardsville
Views: 4,890 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… Read More »UPDATE: Evicted – Non-Profit Friends of Vanderveer House Vacate Bedminster Property
Views: 2,348 Meet Herb Patullo, Bound Brook’s great historian and a true American. While Herb passed in 2020, his work is legendary in Somerset County. Herbert “Herb” Patullo (1929–2020) was a lifelong resident of Bound Brook, New Jersey, and a… Read More »Herb Patullo – Bound Brook’s Ultimate History Legend
Views: 6,262 NOTE: The Mr Local History Team was asked by a Bernardsville business owner to weigh in on the controversial Palmer Development project, which jeopardizes a historic home now known as the “Boylan House,” possibly the 2nd oldest standing… Read More »Bernardsville’s Boylan House on New Jersey’s 10 Most Historic Endangered List
Views: 9,797 While you’d think that hurricanes and floods wreak the most havoc, there has been nothing more destructive to properties in the Somerset Hills than fires. The Mr. Local History Project is gathering information regarding large fires in the… Read More »Historic Fires in the Somerset Hills
Views: 5,851 Basking Ridge Oak Tree Community Video Photo Album Did you send us your photo yet? We will make another version, so keep them coming. On April 24-26, 2017, the New Jersey town of Basking Ridge lost its oldest… Read More »Basking Ridge Oak Tree Community Video Photo Collection
Views: 2,162 Congratulations to Union, Route 22, and the famous historic roadside attraction, the “World Famous Flagship – the ship that never sailed.” Your votes mattered, and the Route 22 Flagship is now officially part of the New Jersey Historical… Read More »Union Flagship on Route 22 Beautiful Keepsake Honors History
Views: 26,553 Confirmed! Jared to Lead NASA Isaacman, a former Basking Ridge high school student who made the decision to not graduate and leave Ridge High School because school just wasn’t for him. Fast forward to a man who bankrolled… Read More »Jersey’s Jared Isaacman – Ridge Dropout- Billionaire – Astronaut & NASA Dream Job
Views: 2,908 Bernards Twp. 2025 Charter Day is A MEMORYBut You’re Early for 2026 🙂 Weather Forecast Stop by the Mr. Local History Booth #89 on Henry Street Just outside the Washington House Side Entrance Watch the South Finley Livestream… Read More »Bernards Township Charter Day Streetfair Memories
Views: 2,452 Olcott School Keepsake Official Launch Party: Wednesday, December 11, 2024 The Mayor of New Jersey’s Historic Village recently decreed that a new icon be added to the New Jersey Historic Wooden Village Collection in a bold move to… Read More »Keepsake: Bernardsville’s Olcott School Part of NJ Keepsake Collection
Views: 17,589 On April 24-26, 2017, the New Jersey town of Basking Ridge lost its oldest resident, the Basking Ridge historic white oak tree. What was estimated to be 619 years old, no one ever imagined that the tree would… Read More »Comparing Basking Ridge’s 619 Year Old Oak to the World’s Oldest Trees
Views: 14,016 Project Local History Ambassador – Nicknamed “Teach ’em,” Project Ambassador is a five-year program where the Mr. Local History Project holds assemblies at each elementary school in Bernards Township and shares the history of the Bernards Township flag,… Read More »Get a Bernards Township Flag – MLH Donates 15 to Project Local History Ambassador
Views: 4,518 UPDATE: May 2025 Connecting Bernards Township students to their local history, the Mr. Local History Project kicked off its 3rd year of our Project Local History Ambassador program for 5th-grade students thanks to the financial support of many… Read More »Project Local History Ambassador Flags for Students
Views: 14,672 UPDATE: We are looking for art programs, non-profits, and elder program coordinators to consider programs where an entire art class works to create their own collection with ties to our collective local history. MLHP Education Coordinator The Mr.… Read More »Art and History – Looking for Artists To Interpret History to Celebrate NJ250