We’re deep into back-to-school season and what better way to celebrate than reading a great book about schools? Josephine M. Waltz’s Schoolhouses of Early Bernards Township is a nostalgic look back at the history of familiar and not-so-familiar local schoolhouses.
Bernards Township was originally much larger than it is today, so the book covers schools in Bernardsville and Far Hills as well as those in the present township. Chapter titles include: The Brick Academy and Prominent Graduates, Bernardsville’s Early Schoolhouses, Liberty Corner Schoolhouses, Maple Avenue School, and Oak Street School. The book also has chapters on more modern schools like Cedar Hill, William Annin, and Ridge High School.
The text is lavishly illustrated with historic photos and maps-many sourced from the collections of THSSH and the Bernardsville Library Local History Room. This is an outstanding history of local education in New Jersey, which you will return to again and again. Highly recommended.
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Schoolhouses of Early Bernards Township: A Photographic History of Schools
By Josephine M. Waltz
ISBN 978-1-57864-434-6
2007
The Donning Co.
160 pp.
8 ½ x 11”
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