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
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It’s Spring, in the heart of track and field season, and this week we spotlight the Bernards High (NJ) Track team—from 1942. The above photo shows the team with Coach Edward J. Black. Javelins, a discus, and a shot are on the ground in front. Several members signed the photo, including: Back RowGeorge Wissell Middle
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On February 8, 1964 on Route 22 near Newark Airport, a truck collided with a passenger car carrying four nuns from St. Elizabeth’s School in Bernardsville, NJ. Two sisters were killed and two seriously injured. Sister Valerie (the former Doris C. Dolbach), was school principal and driver and was injured along with Sister Gabriella (Mildred
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Bernardsville School was a one-room schoolhouse that stood along Anderson Hill Road, just north of the old Methodist Cemetery. The building was the original Methodist Church and was sometimes called the Old Methodist Church Schoolhouse although it was a public school. In the early 1880s, after the Methodists built a new church on Church Street,
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If you blink, you will miss it. Union Grove is a tiny enclave off Pottersville Road between Pottersville and Peapack-Gladstone. Farms and residences line Union Grove Road, which forms one side of a triangle with Pottersville Road and Lisk Hill Road. To the north, the defunct Rockaway Valley Railroad line once connected the region and
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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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In 1938, construction workers were hard at work on Bernards Township’s newest school, Oak Street. These photos were taken November 21, 1938 by teacher Louise M. Flint (c.1889-1976) and preserved in her scrapbook. The title on the page reads “Basking Ridge School, West Oak Street.” Oak Street School was financed partially with an $80,000 grant
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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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