During our continuing digitization efforts, we found this photograph of the Brick Academy in Basking Ridge, NJ, in a Fire Department scrapbook. The building started life in 1809, as the Basking Ridge Classical School and later became a Bernards Township public school. In 1904, it was auctioned off to the Ancient Order of United Workmen
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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
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This class photo from the Brick Academy in Basking Ridge, NJ, is interesting on several levels. Although faded, the photograph shows students and teachers from the 1890s when the Brick Academy was used as a Bernards Township public school. Today, when students from Bernards Township and Bernardsville visit the building on their class trips, they
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When my brother Stuart ‘Budge’ Booth (1939- 2002) was a kid in the early 1950s, he used to go across Maple Avenue and set traps over towards the Great Swamp. We lived on South Finley Avenue. In the morning before school he would check his traps, and if there was a fox caught, he would
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