Essex Fox Hounds Archives - Mr. Local History Project https://mrlocalhistory.org/tag/essex-fox-hounds/ History and Gossip from New Jersey Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:01:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/mrlocalhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cropped-Mr-local-History-250-Logo-theme.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Essex Fox Hounds Archives - Mr. Local History Project https://mrlocalhistory.org/tag/essex-fox-hounds/ 32 32 168989768 Thanksgiving Meet – Horses, Hounds and Foxes Before Turkey – A Countryside Tradition https://mrlocalhistory.org/essex-fox-hounds-thanksgiving-meet-history/ https://mrlocalhistory.org/essex-fox-hounds-thanksgiving-meet-history/#respond Sat, 15 Nov 2025 13:44:25 +0000 https://www.mrlocalhistory.org/?p=24261 Views: 14,415 President George Washington proclaimed Nov. 26, 1789, the last Thursday of November that year, to be a “day of public thanksgiving.”   What is known as the “Gentry”, in New Jersey they held fox hunts on Thanksgiving Day. Fox hunts were not exclusive to the holiday — the horses and hounds trained all year… Read More »Thanksgiving Meet – Horses, Hounds and Foxes Before Turkey – A Countryside Tradition

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]]> https://mrlocalhistory.org/essex-fox-hounds-thanksgiving-meet-history/feed/ 0 24261 The Blessing of the Hounds – A Countryside Tradition https://mrlocalhistory.org/blessing-of-the-hounds/ https://mrlocalhistory.org/blessing-of-the-hounds/#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2025 22:59:12 +0000 https://www.mrlocalhistory.org/?p=40285 Views: 10,908 An annual tradition for the Essex Fox Hounds of Peapack, New Jersey Blessing of the Hounds Back in 2007, before there was a Mr. Local History, there was just a local looking for fun historic events to go to. One day he ran into a few riders on a Bedminster side road and… Read More »The Blessing of the Hounds – A Countryside Tradition

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