Known as The Race of Gentlemen, the event has been revived since the 1950s by a local club called the…
Is William Alexander, aka The Earl & Lord of Stirling, Basking Ridge's Most Famous Resident? Let's see if we can…
Join Mr. Local History as we partner with Somerset County's Boudinot Southard Ross Farm in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. The…
Celebrating over 100 years of New Jersey's fall classic, the Far Hills Race Meeting, with this beautiful wooden hand painted…
The Mr. Local History project often digs into multiple archives looking for evidence of the areas collective past. But this…
People often wonder how people come to populate an area and how it develops. In Somerset County, the first settlers…
If you live in the Somerset Hills area around Bedminster and Tewksbury you hopefully have heard the name Mellick. The…
Bernards Township has an impressive history that dates back to the early 1600s. The Mr. Local History Project started investigating…
NOTE: As with all Mr. Local History retrospectives, we often update the post when we learn stories and are sent…
The Mr. Local History Project is researching the thesis that another house known as Stirling Manor in Basking Ridge was…
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