An early 20th century photo shows the old Bedminster, NJ, post office that stood at the corner of Main Street and Somerville Road (Route 202).   According to historian Prich Matthews, the post office occupied the west (right) side and the poor house, the east side.  The structure was demolished in the 1920s (Matthews, Bedminster Township,

Teacher Louise Flint gathered these photos of 8th grade students from 1940-41 at Oak Street School in Basking Ridge, NJ. Her scrapbook is now at the Brick Academy. The class, along with the 7th grade, visited the World’s Fair in New York in 1940 as a class trip. The photo below shows Louise Flint at

Can anyone put names to the unidentified men in this 1948 photograph?  It was taken at the old ACME market on Mine Brook Road in Bernardsville, NJ.    Looks like they’re in the coffee aisle. Three of the eight men are identified on a sticky note on the back: Row 1 (front) – Minny Latino, Rudy

The eighth-grade class stands on the front steps of Oak Street School in Basking Ridge, N.J. in June 1948.  The photo shows 34 people including students and teachers.  The name “Flint” is on the back in upper left corner and refers to Louise Flint, a teacher at the school.  Also on the back are the signatures

In Holy Cross Cemetery in Basking Ridge, N.J., stands an unusual gravestone with an engraved baseball and bat.   It’s a memorial to John F. Gilmore (1907-1951), a ballplayer who died way too young. Gilmore was born in New York City and moved to Peapack-Gladstone with his parents as a child. He played football for Bernards

If you think you’ve scrolled to the end of the Internet, there’s probably a spot you’ve missed—Random Images by The Historical Society of the Somerset Hills (THSSH).  There, you can continue to browse historic images and documents from the Somerset Hills to your heart’s content. For more than two years, THSSH has been scanning and

Baseball was a thriving amateur sport in the early part of the 20th century. This photo from Peapack-Gladstone, NJ, shows the Gladpack Athletic Club in 1936. A caption, partially cut off indicates they were champions of the Inter-County League, which included teams from Rockaway, Bernardsville, Far Hills, and Stirling. The players are only partially identified

Remember the grand Bicentennial celebrations of 1976?  Long before that in 1876, Fourth of July organizers were already thinking big when they cordially invited “all the world and the rest of mankind.” The THSSH Archives preserves a poster that advertises the 1876 Centennial Celebration in Basking Ridge, NJ. The poster, printed by the Jerseyman Print of

The recent unveiling of the Frederic P. Olcott portrait in Bernardsville’s Borough Hall drew quite a lot of attention.  Olcott was arguably the town’s most important benefactor, and it’s fitting that he now has a place of honor.  But who was the artist who painted the portrait? Stephen Seymour Thomas was a Texan, born in San

Somerset County hosted an open house on June 6 at the Lord Stirling Manor Archaeological Site in Basking Ridge, NJ.  The manor was the home of William Alexander, Lord Stirling, an American general during the Revolutionary War. From February to April 1777, the manor was also the headquarters of General Nathanael Greene. Today, the site