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Tell your neighbors…tell your friends. Drive for 400! 500! 600 fans on Facebook. Feel free to post your own in the comments section, on Facebook, or Twitter. A continuing series where we post a new historic tidbit about Bernardston, now known as Bernards Township. These tidbits are courtesy of The Historical Society of the Somerset [Continue]
Did you know? 1797 – Bernardstan Township in Somerset County had 2,377 inhabitants and 93 slaves, according to records of the American Gazetteer. ____________________________________ Do you have a “Know That”? Feel free to post your own in the comments section, on Facebook, or Twitter. A continuing series where we post a new [Continue]
Did you know? 1956 – The same year Eisenhower signed Federal-Aid Highway Act, New Jersey Legislators agreed to lobby the federal government for a north/south and east/west highway, and soon Routes 287 & 78 were added to the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. The roads were completed in 1968 changing the Bernards Township [Continue]
Did you know? 1797 – Bernardstan Township (Bernards Township) in Somerset County had 2,377 inhabitants and 93 slaves, according to records of the American Gazetteer. ____________________________________ Do you have a “Know That”? Feel free to post your own in the comments section, on Facebook, or Twitter. A continuing series [Continue]
Did you know? 1972 – The Hills Development Company and Toll Brothers built New Jersey’s largest residential development at the time: 1,880 units in Bernards Twp. 3,200 in Bedminster (5,100 total), consisting of 610 Mt. Laurel units, single family homes and commercial sites on 1,500 acres over 20 years. Another Hills tidbit. Did you [Continue]
Did you know? The Bernards Township famous oak tree has a concrete core. Really. In 1923, an organization was formed called “the Friends of the Oak Tree” to save the historic 600 year old oak tree in the Basking Ridge Presbyterian Churchyard in the center of Basking Ridge. The tree had a threatening disease and [Continue]
Did you know? A continuing series where we post a new historic tidbit about Bernardston, now known as Bernards Township. These tidbits are courtesy of The Historical Society of the Somerset Hills, located in the historic Brick Academy in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards Township, New Jersey. ____________________________________ While New [Continue]
Did you know? A continuing series where we post a new historic tidbit about Bernardston, now known as Bernards Township. These tidbits are courtesy of The Historical Society of the Somerset Hills, located in the historic Brick Academy in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards Township, New Jersey. ____________________________________ 1972 – [Continue]
