Views: 354 Long before football stadium lights, marching bands, and Friday night rivalries, a quieter competition was taking shape along New Jersey’s bays, rivers, and coastlines. Students were racing sailboats. Today, high school sailing is an established part of the… Read More »High School Sailing Teams in New Jersey …Who Knew
Views: 1,196 Although both the Raritan Yacht Club in Perth Amboy and the Riverton Yacht Club on the opposite side of New Jersey seem to have been founded in 1865, published sources currently give the Riverton Yacht Club the bragging… Read More »New Jersey’s Oldest Yacht Club is RYC – Riverton or Raritan?
Views: 837 From early shore and lake recreation to organized racing, the culture of sailboats in New Jersey grew out of everyday life on the water. While formal club racing began with the New York Yacht Club in Hoboken with… Read More »Sailing New Jersey- Yacht Clubs-Trophies- History
Views: 11,107 The Mr. Local History Project is researching the thesis that another house, known as Stirling Manor in Basking Ridge, was built with similar architecture to the Proprietary House by England’s John Edward Pryor. Let us know what you… Read More »Basking Ridge’s Stirling Manor & Perth Amboy’s Proprietary House- Digging Around