Crest and Art Honor Bernardsville’s Centennial History

2024 is the #bernardsville100 or #bernardsvillecentennial or #bernardsville1924-2024 and the Mr.Local History Project plans to study it, write about it, promote it, and yes honor it.

Bernardsville, New Jersey is celebrating their 100th anniversary in 2024 with a year long centennial celebrating the town’s recognition as its own borough. The actual separation was approved on April 24, 1924. So get ready because on April 24, 2024 the township will recognize the declaration as the only Bernardsville in the United States and the Mr. Local History Project wants to honor Bernardsville’s centennial.

The Mr. Local History Project has researched many historic events in Bernardsville, we thought we’d create what best represents not only 100 years of independence, but Bernardsville’s history that takes us back to the mid-1700s honoring from the pre-Revolutionary War period to today’s celebration and takes them into the future.

Bernardsville, NJ Centennial Magnet

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Bernardsville Crest

The crest idea came up when the Mr. Local History Project was researching the family crest of Francis Bernard Esq., the Provincial Governor of New Jersey from 1758-1769 to which Bernardsville shares its name. After almost a year of research, we affirmed the official family crest of Francis Bernard. The crest was validated by Francis Bernard’s great, great, great, great, great, grandson Robert Spencer Bernard who still lives at the same estate as Sir Francis Bernard in England.

• The “dancing bear” was confirmed as New Jersey’s Provincial Governor Francis Bernard’s official crest.
• The second icon is that of Bernardsville’s Mountaineer, the official mascot of Bernardsville High School.
• The third icon rendering is that of “the Blue Hills and the Mine Brook river,” a long given nickname of the Bernardsville Mountain area. There is a book entitle “Among the Blue Hills” that was written by the Bernardsville History Book Committee in 1974.
• The final emblem is that of Bernardsville’s Town Hall, which was originally the Bunn Mill, erected back in the 1700s.

Shapes and Colors

The three rectangles in the design represent the three historic areas of what makes Bernardsville; Vealtown, Mine Mount, and Logtown that made Bernardsville what it is today.

As for the colors, the three also have significance to Bernardsville’s past, present, and future. Crimson is the celebratory color of the Lene-Lenape Native Americans and symbolizes life’s blood and the original residents to the area. Blue symbolizes the Blue Hills of Somerset and Bernardsville’s Mine Brook.  White celebrates purity that sets the stage for the future.

Thoughts/Comments?

Let us know what you think. The Bernardsville’s 100th anniversary is just around the corner on April 24, 2024.

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