Bedminster Book Review: “The Story of an Old Farm” by Andrew D. Mellick is an unassuming title for one of the best history books ever written about New Jersey in colonial and Revolutionary times. The story centers on the farm and modest farmhouse built in 1751 in the heart of Bedminster. Originally published in 1889. Definitely recommended reading. Available for free download from Library of Congress:
https://www.loc.gov/item/01013406
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…
The 1889 edition is can also be downloaded from the Internet Archive and from Google Books. The Bernardsville Library local history room has a copy of Lesser Crossroads, 1948, edited by Hubert G. Schmidt to delete the Mellick genealogy in the original.