Views: 1,057 What would have happened if General Charles Lee WASN’T captured in Basking Ridge?Join the Mr. Local History Project as we break down the history with this interesting conversation. America250 Update: Presentation – Sacking General Lee in Basking Ridge –… Read More »Discussion: Sacking General Lee in Basking Ridge….But What if
Views: 814 As Americans experience our 250th anniversary, historians are asking how this moment should be understood and remembered. The Mr. Local History Project is preparing an in-depth story that brings together perspectives from respected voices across our region. This… Read More »What America at 250 Means to Me Essay Series Open to All
Views: 1,407 Long before telegraphs, radios, or cell phones, New Jersey’s mountaintops carried messages by fire. During the Revolutionary War, General William Livingston and Brigadier General William Alexander—better known as Lord Stirling—relied on a chain of signal beacons stretching across… Read More »Igniting New Jersey’s Revolutionary Signal Beacons for America 250 Effort
Views: 966 For centuries, historians have relied on books, letters, artifacts, and exhibits to tell the stories of the past. But what if visitors could do something more? What if they could actually sit down and have a conversation with… Read More »Meet HistOracle AI: New Jersey Team Brings History’s Voices Back to Life
Views: 581 This post is part of a series in which the Mr. Local History Project will document what we believe are the early stages of a new varsity sport across the state. We plan to meet with the New… Read More »Documenting the Ridge High School Sailing Program
Views: 3,346 UPDATE:EXTENSION – Submissions to the program have been extended to give everyone a bit more time to complete and submit their thoughts, as well as to share their experiences over the July 4th period, providing additional retrospective in… Read More »What America at 250 Means To You as A New Jerseyian
Views: 6,270 UPDATE / Donor Special: The 2026 Ambassador Giving Campaign to Support Project Local History Ambassador for 5th Grade Students is underway: five schools and almost 500 Bernards Township official flags to be distributed. See our special offer to… Read More »Project Local History Ambassador Flags for Students in Bernards Township
Views: 2,662 At a recent Somerset County 250th Celebration gathering at the Grain House Restaurant, a simple sign pointed visitors toward the Hunt Room. It was an ordinary moment, but it captured something bigger, the quiet buildup of a once-in-a-generation… Read More »NJ 250 Idea – Build a Rev War Signal Beacon – Then Burn It
Views: 2,292 With America’s 250th anniversary just around the corner, there’s no better time to recognize great American history about what we’ve coined “The Greatest Story Never Told” about the American Revolution – The Academy that came 24 years before… Read More »Share Pluckemin Cantonment History With A Pocket Park – America 250 Ideas
Views: 2,563 Biography Bio courtesy of the Save Ellis Island Foundation, Gladstone, New Jersey Ruth was an octogenarian who lived in historic Gladstone, New Jersey, just down the street from the Save Ellis Island office. In late 2003, Save Ellis Island’s… Read More »Meet The Historians Series – Ruth Thomson Peapack Gladstone
Views: 6,241 A few friends got together and started talking about the fine art of distilling and how much it’s changed (if at all). It seems that due to the efforts of a few Jersey residents, distilling spirits is back… Read More »Moonshining Bootlegging Speakeasies in Somerset County, NJ
Views: 14,529 Distilling Revival across New Jersey and a Renaissance New Jersey has a deep history of distilling spirits that goes back to colonial times. The Somerset Hills is an area in central New Jersey’s Somerset County, comprising six similar… Read More »New Jersey Hills are Alive with Distilling History
Views: 31,119 Basking Ridge, New Jersey’s Most Famous Incident Yes, this historic event made the series, so look for it. The episode covering that timeframe is Episode 3: “The Times That Try Men’s Souls (July 1776 – January 1777)” about… Read More »Widow White’s Tavern in Basking Ridge was More Than a Grog Stop
Views: 3,409 June Kennedy – Bernards Township’s First Official Historian A Basking Ridge resident for 31 years, June Kennedy served as Bernards Township’s Historian from 1970 to approximately 1990. She would lecture and give tours to school and civic groups… Read More »Meet the Historians Series – June Kennedy Bernards Township
Views: 17,814 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
