“Hillandale” on the Mendham Township/Gladstone border was built in 1906 by architect Grosvenor Atterbury for George Rudolf Mosle (1865-1941), who made his fortune in the sugar industry. In 1926, the mansion was sold to the Sisters of St. John the Baptist, the same order who later owned Blairsden in Peapack. The sisters operated an orphanage
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Mount Vernon was the name of an area in northern Bernards Township (now the Borough of Bernardsville, NJ). It stretched from Lloyd Road, where there was a little settlement at the junction of Hardscrabble Road, north to the Mendham border. In the 1840s, a school called Mount Vernon School was built on the north side
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Bernards Township teacher Louise M. Flint compiled a scrapbook during the 1930s and 1940s that looked back at the early history of Maple Avenue School, or Basking Ridge School as it was called. Mrs. Flint credited Mrs. Fred Kampmier, Sr., with giving her the following early facts and construction photos. Basking Ridge School – Maple
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Class photo from Liberty Corner (NJ) School. The flag appears to have 46 stars, which would date the photo to around 1912, the last year that flag was in use. Hazel Bird (b. 1900) is fourth from the left in the back row (with large bow-tie). At that time, most graduates from Liberty Corner who
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During the 1930s and 40s, Burnt Mills in Bedminster boasted a summer hotel, the Hartfeld House, run by Solomon Hartfeld / Hartfield (1866-1947) and his son Isadore (1890-1976), Jewish immigrants from Austria. The hotel was built on the old Paulison farm along the North Branch of the Raritan River, above the current Burnt Mills Road
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This early wood schoolhouse, originally called the Jefferson school, stood on the west side of Lyons Road, north of the triangle in Liberty Corner, NJ. It was built around 1853 to replace an earlier school, which had burned down. The building is clearly marked on a map from the 1873 Beers Atlas of Somerset County
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This red and white pennant from Maple Avenue School in Basking Ridge dates probably to 1948-1969. Maple Avenue School, also known as Basking Ridge School, was built in 1903 to replace the Brick Academy and Franklin Corners School. In 1939, it was closed after the new Oak Street School was built. Bernards Township planned
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