Views: 502 Supporting Bernardsville’s history via our MLH keepsake collection is growing as we honor Bernardsville’s local history. Here’s your chance, Bernardsville, to show your support for local history. Three Bernardsville icons have been selected, and if interest is strong,… Read More »Preserving Bernardsville’s History Collection
Views: 836 UPDATE:USA TODAY says Wildwood is Home to One of the Country’s Best Pop Culture Museums. The museum received USA Today’s 2025 10 Best Readers’ Choice Travel Award. Anyone who’s visited Wildwood, New Jersey, knows it’s the Garden State’s… Read More »Wildwood History: Boardwalk, Beach, Neon and the Doowop Universe
Views: 16,219 ALL NEW KEEPSAKES INDUCTED INTO THE NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL WOODEN KEEPSAKE COLLECTION FOR 2025 The MLH Project is proud to be the exclusive reseller of the New Jersey Historic Wooden Keepsake Collection, created by the world-famous Cat’s Meow… Read More »The New Jersey Historic Wooden Village Keepsake Collection Keeps Expanding
Views: 778 Congratulations, Basking Ridge and Bernardsville, on being the foundation for the New Jersey Historical Wooden Village collection, a group of over 40 Jersey collectibles. Each keepsake brings awareness to historic area icons created by the world-famous Cat’s Meow… Read More »Bernards Township/Bernardsville Historic Wooden Village Keepsake Collectibles
Views: 959 Just like the racetrack that was on the southern end of Westfield in the 1930s, another lost icon, the Westfield Airport, sits at the coordinates 40°36’36.0″N 74°19’08.4″W. Our research started here. As with all Mr. Local History retrospectives,… Read More »The Lost Westfield Airport In Union County
Views: 189 Take the Survey – What are the Most Historic Icons in Bernardsville? Olcott School, The Old Library, Jerolaman’s, the Bernards Inn, the Old Stone Hotel, Dunster Squibb house, Bernardsville Cinema, and Kenilwood, NJ Brigade are some of the… Read More »Vote For Bernardsville’s Most Historic Venues
Views: 1,083 Jersey Lost Racetrack Series We found a story in the Paterson Call newspaper on April 22, 1936, stating that on May 15, 1936, after spending over $100,000, the Union (Township) Speedway would open with a 1/2-mile oval, including… Read More »Lost Racetrack Series: Auto Racing’s 10,000 Seat Track In Union, New Jersey
Views: 844 Jersey Lost Racetrack Series For a short period, racecar drivers from all over the tri-state area gathered just off Raritan Road on the Westfield/Clark border for the most exciting spectacles of the time, sanctioned midget dirt car racing.… Read More »Retrospective: Auto Racing on Jersey’s Westfield-Clark Border
Views: 467 1924 is the year Bernardsville passed a resolution to separate from Bernards Township and form an independent borough. Just a year after Far Hill did it in 1921, Bernardsville had to try once previously before succeeding the second… Read More »Bernardsville 100 – A Birthday Party – Ah the History
Views: 11,852 MORE HUGE JARED NEWS: December 4, 2024 – It was just announced that President-Elect Donald J. Trump has tagged Jared Isaacman to head NASA. Read more….. HUGE UPDATE: September 12, 2024—Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman conducted the first private… Read More »Jersey’s Jared Isaacman – Ridge High School Dropout Who Went to Outer Space (AGAIN) Now Tagged to Lead NASA
Views: 16,334 Special Community Ask: MLH would love to know any positive outcomes that have come since this tragid day in American history. If you have a story to share, please post at the end of this story (e.g. did… Read More »#911neverforget-Somerset Hills Family Friends and Neighbors & Their Stories
Views: 5,746 On the clear crisp morning at 8:46 am on September 11, 2001, the first plane hit the North Tower, and our community was changed forever. Please take a moment to remember those 21 residents from Basking Ridge, Bernardsville,… Read More »#911neverforget in the Somerset Hills
Views: 801 Walk down memory lane as we journey back to a time when Westfield was a much younger community. “Penny postcards” were primarily used in the early 1900s when you wanted to write to your family and friends from… Read More »Westfield Penny Postcards
Views: 1,150 Mr Local History loves history with a social twist. It’s our motto! So we thought: How fun would it be to share some of the most loved Westfield, New Jersey businesses that have disappeared? (Two of our Trustees… Read More »Wearing Lost Westfield Area Businesses is Fun History
Views: 877 Time to see what Westfielders feel are the most historic icons in town. Is it The Westfield train station, Rialto Theater, Tamaques Park, Stoneleigh Park, Westfield Fire Department, Jolly Trolley, WWI Memorial, Kehler Field House, Westfield High School,… Read More »Vote for Westfield’s Most Historic Icons