The October issue of Inside the Brick Academy is available now and includes a page-one article on the Fenner House in Pluckemin, NJ, where General George Washington is said to have written his report on the Battle of Princeton. The article is the first in a series covering Pluckemin historic houses.
For the Bernardsville Centennial, the life of George D. Cross, Bernardsville’s first mayor, is explored on page 3. Cross was a committeeman in Bernards Township before throwing his support to an independent Bernardsville.
Also in this issue, we welcome 35 new members and report on new museum acquisitions.
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I appreciate learning about George D Cross and his wife Leonie. The article sent me into snooping around to see what else I could learn about them, thinking there might be a distant family connection.
There was also an apparently unrelated Cross family in Bernardsville around that time. W. Redmond Cross and his wife Julia Appleton Newbold Cross owned a mansion now called the Cross Estate. It has become a part of Morristown National Historical Park.
Thank you, taking a look at them too now.