Our Fall 2024 cover photo pays homage to the history of the Somerset Hills area in Northern Somerset County, New Jersey, and the iconic Ravine Lake, located on the border of Far Hills / Bernardsville. The lake was created by the Ravine Lake Association, led by C. Ledyard Blair.
Volume 6 – Issue 3 – Fall Edition Articles:
Local Horror Tales and Ghost Stories Special Edition Magazine
Views: 25,571💬 Leave a Comment | View 0 Comments Urban Legends, Ghosts, Murder, Nuns gone insane, the Devil and other horror stories we’ve dug up from Central New Jersey’s past. May be urban legends, but they’re OUR stories! As the…
Day Trips – Four Historic New Jersey Fall Locations You Must See
Views: 10,962💬 Leave a Comment | View 0 CommentsThe 2026 Fall Foliage Map is the ultimate visual planning guide to the annual progression of leaf change. While no tool can be 100% accurate, this tool is designed to help travelers better time…
High Point State Park was Donated by Bernardsville Family
High Point State Park in Sussex, New Jersey, home to the state’s highest elevation and a monument for veterans, owes its existence to Bernardsville families the Kusars and the Drydens. Businessman and philanthropist Anthony Kusar and his wife Susie donated…
Far Hills Race Meeting Collectible & Century Old History of this Fall Jersey Classic
Views: 10,519💬 Leave a Comment | View 0 CommentsCelebrating over 100 years of New Jersey’s fall classic, the Far Hills Race Meeting, with this beautiful wooden painted collectible as part of the New Jersey Historic Village Cat’s Meow wooden keepsake…
Jersey’s Jared Isaacman – Ridge Dropout- Billionaire – Astronaut & NASA Dream Job
Views: 34,014💬 Leave a Comment | View 2 CommentsConfirmed! Jared Leading NASA Isaacman, a former Basking Ridge High School student, decided not to graduate and leave the school because school just wasn’t for him. Fast forward to a man who…
The World’s Greatest Broadcast in New Jersey History – War of the Worlds
Views: 6,916💬 Leave a Comment | View 1 Commenton Mischief Night, Cabbage Night, Goosey Night, or whatever you call it – October 30th – RE-LIVE the WAR OF THE WORLDS. GO LISTEN WITH YOUR FAMILY The date was October 30,…
Haunted Tales From Central New Jersey #3
Views: 4,900💬 Leave a Comment | View 2 CommentsBelieve 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 rather whether they are…
Basking Ridge Evergreen Cemetery is a Living History Lesson
Views: 5,924💬 Leave a Comment | View 1 CommentYou can learn a great deal of history by visiting a cemetery. NOTE: A quick reminder: Warren was part of Bernards Township until the 19th century, while Far Hills and Bernardsville were…
Remembering Warren’s Schwäbische Alb – a Jersey Oktoberfest Institution
Views: 16,233💬 Leave a Comment | View 10 Comments Our retrospective begins just after Prohibition, when a chicken ranch became Warren’s Schwaebische Alb restaurant, which opened in 1935 at 142 Washington Valley Road in Warren Township, New Jersey. This retrospective takes you…
Blairsden- The Horror, The Nuns and Other Urban Legends
Views: 74,858💬 Leave a Comment | View 11 CommentsWeird 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…
The Tale of Jersey’s Devil Tree
Views: 44,100💬 Leave a Comment | View 1 CommentThe Devil Tree of Liberty Corner (Somerset County) Urban Legend 1 Devil Tree – The Tree and the Caretaker Me and my friends were all contemplating going up to the devil tree.…
Taking Jacob’s Ladder to the Devil’s Tomb (Grave)
Views: 30,019💬 Leave a Comment | View 4 CommentsDevil’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…
10 More Haunted Tales From Central New Jersey
Views: 17,414💬 Leave a Comment | View 0 CommentsBelieve 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…
Far Hills Race Meeting is Real Social Jersey History
Views: 29,552At the 105th Far Hills Race Meeting on October 17, 2026, jockeys will compete for a total purse of $825,000, up $50,000 from 2025 and the highest purse total on the 2026 steeplechase circuit. The six-race program includes the…
Fall Day Trip – Historic Mohonk Mountain “House”, New Paltz, New York
Views: 35,845💬 Leave a Comment | View 1 CommentNestled in the Catskill Mountains in the southern portion of New York State lies the historic Mohonk Mountain House, also known to locals as the Mohonk Mountain Resort. The Resort is anything…
- Four Fall Historic Jersey Destinations
- Jerseyians making History – Jersey’s Jared Isaacman – a High School Dropout who went to Outer Space (AGAIN)
- Horror Takes and Ghost Stories from Central New Jersey
- Basking Ridge’s Evergreen Cemetery is a Living History Lesson
- Retrospective: Warren’s Schwaebische Alb was an Octoberfest Institution
- Fall History Day Trips – High Point State Park – Mohonk Mountain House, and the Far Hills Race Meeting
- The Tale of Jersey Devil Tree and the Vicious Blairsden Nuns
and much, much more.
Cover
Vol.6 Issue 3 is available now. Our Fall 2024 cover photo honors the history of the Somerset Hills area of Northern Somerset County, New Jersey, and the iconic Blairsden Mansion & Estate.
