Today’s photo shows Charles Pitman Bird (1856-1933) and his father John Watson Bird (1825-1902) checking out a new carriage around 1901 near Minebrook Road in Liberty Corner, NJ .
The carriage was purchased from the Ballantine & Van Fleet Carriage Mfg. Co. of Somerville for $40 (see receipt). Ballantine & Van Fleet operated at 200-210 West Main Street in Somerville as early as 1891. The company was dissolved in 1904.
The 1889 edition is can also be downloaded from the Internet Archive and from Google Books. The Bernardsville Library local…
Thanks for the post. I'll have to look at the land when I'm next up the hill.
Roy such an interesting article. I didn't know anything about Stonemere. Many of the mansions on the Bernards Mountain had…
Too bad it happened well before the bicentennial. It might have been saved 6 or 8 years later!
My family lived in the Old Pottersville Hotel in the late 60’s before Southfield Drive was built. Large pieces of…
