The Historical Society of the Somerset Hills (THSSH) recently received a set of five blueprints of the Lyons Railroad Station. The drawings are a welcome addition to our archives because the building is on the national and N.J. registers of historic places (since 1984). Rail service began at Lyons in 1872 when the New Jersey
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In 1915, the Greulock Dairy in Basking Ridge, NJ, delivered milk in bottles like the one pictured. The dairy was run by Carl Martin Greulock who was born in Lyons, NJ, on May 27, 1887, son of George Greulock and Mathilda Rother. Carl had earlier run an ice business, which he had taken over from
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Lyons became a stop on the New Jersey West Line railroad (now NJ Transit) when the line was extended to Bernardsville in 1872. In 1906, the station was a flag stop, meaning trains stopped only on a signal. In 1910, in the case of William J. Kearns et al. vs. The Lackawanna, the NJ Board
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