Views: 2,373 ARCHIVED: ONE NIGHT ONLY! Join the community with friends, neighbors, and volunteers for a holiday celebration of what will be the 100th running of the Basking Ridge Christmas Eve Sing on the Green. The special gathering will be… Read More »Honoring Volunteers Who Make The Basking Ridge Christmas Eve Carol Happen
The Mr. Local History Project has launched a fifteen-question quiz about your town’s history, with answers linked to articles from the project. The Project encourages participants to share their scores and contribute fresh queries.
Views: 3,895 Maps have historically been a great way to tell stories about local history. Mr. Local History Project congratulates William (Liam) Murphy of Basking Ridge’s Patriots Path Council Boy Scout Troop 351, who created his interactive Basking Ridge Historical… Read More »Eagle Scout Maps Historic Basking Ridge
Views: 12,963 Make a Tax-Deductible Donation – Get a Frameable Map Finding New Ways to Share Local History.We call it “Maps for a Cause,” supporting Our Ridge and Bernards High Scholarship Funds. The Mr. Local History Project continues its mission… Read More »Make a Donation – Get a Historic Map as our Gift
Views: 24,351 Urban Legends, Ghosts, Murder, Nuns gone insane, the Devil and other horror stories we’ve dug up from Central New Jersey’s past. May be urban legends, but they’re OUR stories! When the leaves start turning and the nights get… Read More »Legendary Horror Tales and Ghost Stories from Central New Jersey
Views: 5,451 You can learn a great deal of history by visiting a cemetery. NOTE: A quick reminder: Warren was part of Bernards Township until the 19th century, while Far Hills and Bernardsville were still part of Bernards Township up… Read More »Basking Ridge Evergreen Cemetery is a Living History Lesson
Views: 5,494 If you live in Bernards Township, New Jersey, the Mr. Local History Project has written a few stories about the founding families of Basking Ridge for new residents to learn the history of the early Scottish and Dutch… Read More »Basking Ridge’s Genealogist and Historian Gets Digitized
Views: 11,457 Cemeteries showcase some of history’s greatest reminders of where we came from. Many people new to the area are unaware of the local history until you trace it back to some of the originating families that chose this… Read More »Basking Ridge’s Oldest Cemetery
Views: 10,276 They came from all over Jersey to the sleepy section of West Millington in Bernards Township for some of the freshest farm goods anyone could get anywhere. Once a quiet enclave a few miles north of Rt. 22… Read More »Remembering Dewy Meadow Farm and Those Chicken Pot Pies
Views: 12,762 The Washington Rochambeau Revolutionary Route (W3R) Goes Right Through Liberty Corner, the site of the English Farm that hosted 5,000+ soldiers during the march to Yorktown. This march ended with the defeat of the British and the defeat… Read More »English Farm – Liberty Corner’s Historic Gem & Rochembeau’s Rev War Stopover
Views: 2,213 The Bernards Township Committee passed Resolution #2023-0244 honoring Bernards Township Day of Community Service and Pride to be held across Bernards Township on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. Resolution #2023-0244 Recognition of Mr. Local History Project’s” support of Bernards… Read More »Township Resolution Honors Bernards Township Day
Views: 6,661 FRANCIS BERNARD, NEW JERSEY’S FORGOTTEN GOVERNOR SOCIAL MEDIA HISTORY SERIES The Mr. Local History Project hopes you’ve been following our Facebook series honoring the life of New Jersey Royal Governor Sir Francis Bernard, named for the towns of… Read More »Sir Francis Bernard History Series
Views: 7,825 Amid controversy and intrigue, we have been writing for years about a controversial figure in early American history who served the English majesty as the provincial governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts Bay. If you were to define… Read More »Three Sister Towns Historic Links to Governor Sir Francis Bernard
Views: 25,992 International headlines were made on February 24, 1970, at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City when the first quintuplets were born using fertility drugs. Two months later, on April 27, 1970, Bill and Peggy Jo Kienast brought home their new… Read More »Where Are the Kienast Quintuplets from Liberty Corner – 50+ Years Later
Views: 1,901 Terms and Conditions to the new Provincial Governor if accepted. And YES, Bernard accepted. As the internet grows, so does the information. This piece is a transcribe of what is the job description for Francis Bernard, who was… Read More »New Jersey Provincial Governor – Francis Bernard’s Actual 1758 Job Description