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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On June 26, 1944, architect Peter P. Dupay (1900-1985) obtained a building permit for an addition to a residence on Sixth Street in Basking Ridge.[1] But where was Sixth Street? And if Basking Ridge had a Sixth Street, where were First through Fifth? The answer is provided by an 1891 map[2] showing what was called
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This 1909 real picture postcard shows the original Far Hills, NJ, Train Station with the freight house on the left. The station was built in the 1890s when the railroad was extended from Bernardsville to Gladstone. The current concrete Far Hills station replaced it in 1914, but the original was moved. Most railroad stations can’t
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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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