Views: 72 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: After what was Reggie’s Playland Jazz club was sold, the name changed to… Read More »Millington’s Millridge Swim Club Bulldozed Back into the Great Swamp Landscape
Views: 1,246 Clover Hill Swimming ClubA Beloved Summer Retreat That Changed New Jersey History PREVIEW RELEASE: For those who subscribe to early releases of Mr Local History Research. Additional updates will be provided as we receive answers to our research… Read More »Looking Back at Millington’s Clover Hill Swim Club
Views: 1,353 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: 2,017 Stations in the News Railroad service into the Somerset Hills began in 1872 when the Passaic Valley and Peapack Railroad opened a new line running west from Summit into northern Somerset County. The original route established stations at… Read More »Looking Back at Train Stations Along the Peapack Gladstone Line
Views: 17,591 New Jersey is known as the “Cockpit of the American Revolution” for a reason – because it was. More battles, more encampments, more strategies took place in New Jersey than in any other colony of the original thirteen.… Read More »New Jersey Rev War Series Mr. Local History Project
Views: 6,426 Long Hill Township, in Morris County, is made up of the villages of Stirling, Millington, Gillette, Meyersville, and Homestead Park. Each village has its own unique character, with Stirling serving as the central hub, Millington and Gillette being… Read More »Millington’s Garden State Fireworks Lighting America’s Nights Since 1890
Views: 17,054 His stage name was Leo, but his real name was Slats. He was a 750-pound lion born on March 20, 1919, in Dublin, Ireland, and now rests peacefully in Gillette, a small New Jersey town. Meet MGM’s first… Read More »MGM’s Lion Rests in Gillette, New Jersey
Views: 8,462 Ever wonder what it was like to travel on a train back in 1872 in the Somerset Hills? Train service has always been a connector between Somerset Hills, Hoboken, and New York City. Service runs on what is… Read More »Somerset Hills Rail Travel & Commuting Over the Last 150 Years