Views: 3,843 The Mr. Local History Project took a moment out to answer a very simple set of questions of which we’ve learned many people just didn’t know the correct answer. The Somerset Hills is an area of northern Somerset… Read More »Most People Don’t Know The Meaning Behind These Town Names
Views: 5,014 National Award-Winning Landscape Architect Lives and Breathes History with His Map Creations. The Mr. Local History Project introduces you to a dear friend and history connoisseur who has taken cartography to a whole new level, overlaying history on… Read More »Somerset Hills Cartographer John Smith Maps Local History
Views: 22,080 If you live in the Somerset Hills area around Bedminster and Tewksbury you hopefully have heard the name Mellick. The Mellick name goes back to one of the founding family names in the area. In fact, the name… Read More »Bedminster History – Look To the Old Mellick Farmhouses
Views: 3,966 The New Jersey Register of Historic Places is the official list of New Jersey’s historic resources of local, state, and national interest. Created by the New Jersey Register of Historic Places Act of 1970 (N.J.S.A. 13:1B-15.128 et seq.)… Read More »Why List a Historic District on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places?
Views: 12,136 #45-47summerwhitehouse Preserving Bedminster’s History – The Mr. Local History Project (MLH) has been preserving and promoting local history since our non-profit organization was established in 2019. The all-volunteer group started a wooden miniature keepsake program to share history… Read More »Collectible: Preserving Bedminster’s History with a Special Keepsake – Trump’s Summer Whitehouse
Views: 12,853 UPDATE: While we wrote this piece years ago, the Bedminster Charter came back in the news on October 21, 2019, when it was announced that the Forbes family was donating the charter back to Bedminster Township. The story… Read More »The Lost Charters of Bernards Township & Bedminster
Views: 3,664 Hey, Bedminster, we’d love your opinion. We’re looking to hear what you think are the most historic icons in Bedminster, New Jersey. Loading… Vote in the Series:Know Bernardsville? Vote for their most historic Click HereKnow Bernards Township? Vote for… Read More »Vote for Bedminster’s Most Historic Icons
Views: 4,096 Schools in the Somerset Hills area of northern Somerset County have been a mainstay back to the mid-1700s. We honor the history of these memorable facilities in images from various sources now in our digital research archives. For… Read More »MLH Honors Back to School with Historic School Images From the Somerset Hills
Views: 4,591 July is national ice cream month, so it’s time for Mr. Local History’s look back at the history, the good fun (and some “good humor”). NOTE: As with all Mr. Local History retrospectives, we often update the post… Read More »Reflection: Ice Cream around Somerset Hills
Views: 185,483 America’s First Military Academy, the Pluckemin Academy (Dec.1778) was24 Years BEFORE West Point (Mar. 16, 1802). One of the greatest untold stories of the American Revolution. Called the Pluckemin Winter Cantonment, part of the overall Middlebrook Encampment of… Read More »Before the West Point Military Academy (USMA) There was Pluckemin
Views: 8,428 So we’re over at the Bedminster Farmers Market and while meeting a few of the locals, one of the patrons mentioned “why don’t you research what’s going on over at the slave burial grounds in Bedminster. Here we… Read More »A Unique Bedminster Cemetery-“God’s Acre”
Views: 8,216 Tucked in the northern section of Somerset County, New Jersey, the area known as the Somerset Hills has a rich history that Mr. Local History is proud to document. Each property was researched prior to submitting documentation to… Read More »Somerset Hills Historic Sites on the National & State Registers
Views: 13,578 Sister Towns in New Jersey and England Share a Common Bond – and a Name How fun was it when we were contacted by our friends across the pond who were inquiring about what they were calling a… Read More »The Tale of Two Bedminsters
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Views: 14,582 History is a strange thing. The myth often outweighs the truth in many cases, sometimes distorting the truth to make a better story. Sometimes, it’s like the game where you whisper something to someone, then they whisper to… Read More »Finding the Truth About the KKK in Basking Ridge & the Somerset Hills
