2023 MLH Summer Edition Vol. 5 Issue 2

Great stories for the summer:

  • Everyone in Jersey Should Fly this flag
  • Mee the Jersey 5 Signers
  • New Jersey’s Gift to America this July 4
  • Project Local History Ambassador
  • Remembering Warren’s Egg O Mat Vending Machine
  • Westfield’s Jolly Trolly Keepsake
  • Graveyard Walking Tour Coming to Basking Ridge

Project Local History Ambassador Flags for Students

UPDATE: March 2025 Connecting Bernards Township students to their local history, the Mr. Local History Project kicked off its 3rd…

2 weeks ago

Remembering and Now Saving The EggOmat in Warren Township, New Jersey

2025 UPDATE: Rembering, YES. But now it's time to SAVE the Warren EggOMat! UPDATE: February 23, 2025 We finally saw…

3 months ago

New Jersey’s Gift to America – July 4 Celebration

New Jersey’s Gift to AmericaSomerset County’s Gift to AmericaBridgewater’s Gift to AmericaMiddlebrook’s Gift to AmericaThey all come on Independence Day…

9 months ago

Take 2 Minutes and 18 Seconds to Celebrate America

It takes around two minutes and eighteen seconds to sing God Bless America. Mr. Local History took a trip to…

9 months ago

Independence Day – Kudos to New Jersey Signers #jersey5

The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. It was engrossed on parchment and on August…

9 months ago

Jersey’s History Bucket List

Wow, this story was one of our most controversial and difficult stories we've ever prepared. Just the thought of picking…

2 years ago

Basking Ridge’s Oldest Cemetery

NOTE: Warren, Far Hills and Bernardsville were all part of Bernards Township in the early 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.…

2 years ago

Everyone in Jersey – Why You Should Fly This American Flag

Like me, many of us in Somerset County, New Jersey drive back and forth down Route 287 then east on…

2 years ago

Westfield’s Icon Jolly Trolley Enshrined in NJ Historic Wooden Village

Mr. Local History is proud to announce, after years of thought, that they will be producing a very limited run…

6 years ago

This website uses cookies.