Views: 199 YES… Revolutionary Crawls, celebrating America 250, is bringing their revolutionary crawls to the fine town of Bernardsville, New Jersey, Saturday, October 10, 2026. Is there a better way to honor America’s 250th anniversary than to join General Washington,… Read More »Revolutionary Crawls Coming to Bernardsville Hosting a Pub Crawl Saturday, Oct 10
Views: 790 RUMOR CONFIRMED:As Crane Farm approaches another turning point, word has begun circulating that Tyson and Doris Mertz are retiring October 31, 2026 and will not be renewing their lease with Somerset County. The Mertzes have not owned the… Read More »Crane Farm: The Little Farm Stand Preserves Basking Ridge’s Farming Past
Views: 2,054 The Millington Quarry property in the Millington section of Bernards Township is one of the largest former industrial sites in Somerset County and has been the focus of redevelopment discussions for more than a decade. Covering approximately 180… Read More »Meandering Basking Ridge’s Newest Largest Lake – The Millington Quarry
Views: 154 Noe Pond began as a natural, spring-fed farm pond on the Noe family’s roughly 800-acre property in Chatham Township. Dating to before the Revolutionary War, the pond supplied water to the family’s dairy farm, rose greenhouses, and surrounding… Read More »Noe Pond & the Browers- Chatham’s Swim Club People Remember
Views: 167 Before the Millridge Swim Club existed, it was known as Reggie’s Playland Farm, and we found a strange real estate listing from 2002 that read: This story is part of the Mr. Local History Project’s New Jersey Swim… Read More »Millington’s Millridge Swim Club Bulldozed Back into the Great Swamp Landscape
Views: 103 UPDATE: A New Life for Westfield’s Rialto After sitting largely dormant since closing as a movie theater in 2019, Westfield’s historic Rialto is now headed toward a major rebirth. In July 2026, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority… Read More »Westfield’s Rialto Theater History and Next Chapter
Views: 424 As Cranford prepares to celebrate the theater’s 100th birthday on November 29, 2026, we’re taking a look back at the little movie house that became a Cranford institution, and the generations of people who have kept coming through… Read More »Celebrating 100 Years of the Cranford Theater
Views: 8,096 Remembering classic movie theaters that not only showed first-rate films, but anchored our towns and kept us full of memories. Three of the last remaining old-time, downtown movie theaters in New Jersey, each with over a century of… Read More »NJ Cinemas Honored in Exclusive Miniature Wooden Collection
Views: 515 For many families growing up in the Somerset Hills and surrounding communities, summer meant one thing: the local swim club. From the 1950s through the 1980s, private clubs, lakes, beaches, and municipal pools became summertime gathering places where… Read More »History Remembers Lost Swim Clubs – Now It’s Your Turn
Views: 1,339 Clover Hill Swimming ClubA Beloved Summer Retreat That Changed New Jersey History This story is part of the Mr. Local History Project’s New Jersey Swim Club Series, exploring the neighborhood pools, freshwater ponds, and private clubs that shaped… Read More »Looking Back at Millington’s Clover Hill Swim Club
Views: 1,560 Our story begins as we were researching another story tied to swim clubs in New Jersey’s Basking Ridge area, and we were preparing a story about Millington’s Clover Hill Swim Club. A fun story you can read later,… Read More »Reggie’s Playland & Farm: A Forgotten Jazz Club in Millington, NJ
Views: 1,830 Ah, who remembers the Wind Ranch in Bingen, Washington? Just across the bridge from Hood River was a place, no, an iconic place, that remains now only in my memory. This post is more of a community plea… Read More »Remembering the Columbia River Gorge’s Wind Ranch in the 80s
Views: 251 For decades, visitors to Jockey Hollow believed they were standing beside the burial ground of Continental soldiers who died during the terrible winter of 1779–1780. However, archaeological investigations found no human remains, and the National Park Service now… Read More »1780: The Missing Cemetery at the Basking Ridge Continental Army Hospital
Views: 600 At Mr. Local History, we believe history is at its best when it connects people. That’s why our motto is “History with a social twist.” Every place has a story, every family has a connection, and every generation… Read More »Homer’s The Odyssey & The Gods Told This Time By Christopher Nolan
Views: 582 Isn’t it strange that you might drive by something 1,000s of times and never notice something….until you do. This is one of those stories. Just to the south of the former Millington quarry entrance on Stonehouse Road sits… Read More »A Tiny Roadside Cemetery in Basking Ridge