Believe it or not, the dead is alive in central New Jersey especially in northern Somerset County. The question is not whether they are real or not, but more like are they disturbing or friendly? As we share, The Mr.… Read More »10 More Haunted Tales From Central New Jersey
If you live in Bernards Township, New Jersey, the Mr. Local History Project has written a few stories about the founding families of Basking Ridge for new residents to learn the history of the early Scottish and Dutch settlers to… Read More »Basking Ridge’s Genealogist and Historian, Gets Digitized
For as long as there have been families in New Jersey, there’s been a need for milk. New Jersey dairy farmers also wanted in on the action as they started looking for ways to sell milk directly to the public.… Read More »Retrospective: Milk Vending History in New Jersey
Peaches Peaches Everywhere Many don’t remember that New Jersey, particularly Somerset, Morris, and Hunterdon Counties, were premiere peach orchards with some of the best in the United States. If you live in New Jersey, you know that summertime in Garden… Read More »Peaches Means New Jersey
The time – 1950s – the invention – The EggOmat, an egg vending machine enclosed in a wooden shed, born on Mountain Boulevard, across from the field that’s now home to municipal ballfields in Somerset County’s Warren Township, New Jersey.… Read More »Retrospective: Remembering Warren Township’s EggOmat
Like me, many of us in Somerset County, New Jersey drive back and forth down Route 287 then east on Route 22 day in and day out never thinking that just off the highway on the hillside by Vosseller Avenue… Read More »Everyone in Jersey – Why You Should Fly This American Flag
To expand on an earlier post: The PLOT THICKENS… Jacob’s Ladder #2 – So I kept digging about Jacobs Ladder. Not that I wanted to, but the internet has it’s way of bringing information right to my doorstep. It seems… Read More »Peapack has a Jacobs Ladder too!
Mixed inside a Revolutionary War site on a hillside in Bernardsville, New Jersey is a modest estate and truly beautiful gardens. The Cross Estate encompasses 162 acres and together with the Jarvis tract augments the 320-acre New Jersey Brigade Encampment… Read More »Bernardsville’s Historic Cross Estate & Gardens
Amid controversy and intrigue, we have been writing for years about a controversial figure in early American history who served the English majestry as the provincial governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts Bay. If you were to define the life… Read More »Three Sister Towns Historic Links to Governor Sir Francis Bernard
EVERY TIME we try to come up with an answer, our Jersey hamburger story takes a twist. While there remain many unanswered questions, we are still here to introduce Louis, Abner “Al” A.L, and Webster Bridges, once a family of… Read More »The Brothers’ Bridges and Their Family’s New Jersey Burger Dynasty
The New Jersey White Diamond chain was serving slider smash burgers as far back as the 1930s…….. As with all Mr. Local History retrospectives, we often update the post when we learn stories and are sent photos from our community.… Read More »The White Diamond Chain – New Jersey Burger Royalty
International headlines were made on February 24, 1970, at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City when the first quintuplets were born using fertility drugs. After two months, on April 27, 1970, when Bill and Peggy Jo Kienast brought home their new family… Read More »Where Are the Kienast Quintuplets from Liberty Corner – 53 Years Later
Just the word S&H green stamps immediately brings you back in time to what seemed to be simpler times. No cell phones, no internet, but just a time when you knew if you collected green stamps, someday when all those… Read More »Hey New Jersey – Who Remembers S&H Green Stamps
Capturing History with Art in the Somerset Hills in Somerset County, New Jersey The Mr. Local History Project has launched a new program to honor artists that celebrate our local history with art. We’re also looking for groups or art… Read More »Art and Local History
The Mr. Local History Project looks back at the top 25 researched stories posted for the year. This year was a funny twist as readers around the world wanted to know a few classic sayings about the cold. Were any… Read More »2022 Mr. Local History Project Top 25 Stories