Views: 13,835 To expand on an earlier post: The PLOT THICKENS… there’s a 2nd Jacob’s Ladder! So I kept digging about Jacob’s Ladder. Not that I wanted to, but the internet has its way of bringing information right to my… Read More »Peapack has a Jacob’s Ladder too!
Views: 13,564 The Brothers Hildebrandt – Creating the original Star Wars poster was just the tip of the iceberg. May the 4th Be With You!!!!! UPDATE: The world lost Greg Hildebrandt on October 31, 2024 at 85. May the force… Read More »May the Force Be With You – Hildebrandt Twins New Jersey Connection
Views: 74,389 Weird New Jersey magazine launched an all-out attack with urban legends about what went terribly wrong inside the Blairsden Estate in Peapack, New Jersey. This article was originally posted on another site back in 2007. We thought it… Read More »Blairsden- The Horror, The Nuns and Other Urban Legends
Views: 13,698 Snow is an interesting thing. Some love it. Some hate it. But when there’s a major storm in the area, there’s the battle between getting a snow day and whether to play in it or dread removing it.… Read More »Snowstorm Records and Sledding in Somerset County New Jersey
Views: 7,591 T’is the season for engagements right? So why not share some of the most historic wedding venues in the Somerset Hills. Many people have written over the years looking for places to hold a wedding on a historic… Read More »Holiday Engagement? Historic Wedding Venues in Central New Jersey
Views: 8,759 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
Views: 10,917 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: 29,703 Devil’s Tomb & Jacob’s Ladder –Look what happened when Weird NJ Issue #12 came out. A place that sits quietly in obscurity for hundreds of years comes to an abrupt end when overzealous devil seekers search to find… Read More »Taking Jacob’s Ladder to the Devil’s Tomb (Grave)
Views: 17,068 Believe it or not, the dead are alive in central New Jersey, especially in northern Somerset County. The question is not whether they are real or not, but whether they are disturbing or friendly. As we share, the… Read More »10 More Haunted Tales From Central New Jersey
Views: 18,847 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
The 12-acre locale in Far Hills, New Jersey, known as the J. Malcolm Belcher Fairgrounds, holds a significant place in local history. Named after James Malcolm Belcher, former mayor, WWII veteran, and influential community figure, the area now serves as… Read More »Retrospective: Belcher- Moggy Hollow – Buck Gardens and the Far Hills Fairgrounds
Views: 9,374 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: 36,201 Peapack, New Jersey’s Blairsden Estate of Clinton Ledyard Blair Peapack/Gladstone, New Jersey Submitted: Brooks Betz & W. Barry Thomson Blairsden History Of all the requests we receive at Mr. Local History, none match the sheer volume we receive… Read More »The Gilded Age: The Blairsden Estate May Be the Finest Example
Views: 15,648 Tucked in the northern section of Somerset County, New Jersey, the Somerset Hills area has a rich history that Mr. Local History is proud to document. We researched each property before submitting documentation to the State Historic Register.… Read More »Somerset Hills Historic Sites on the National & State Registers
Views: 19,301 History is a strange thing. The myth often outweighs the truth in many cases, sometimes distorting it to create a more compelling narrative. 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
