Over the past year I have recounted the 1916 grisly murders of Richard Wyckoff and his housekeeper and most recently the murder of Ted Cruse, stomped and garroted in 1874. All of these murders occurred in the East Amwell section of the Sourland Mountains. Here is...
On January 13th, 1874 two black men from the Sourland Mountain area of East Amwell were taken into custody for the murder of Theodore Cruse, Jr., also black. Israel Morocco and George Thompson, were charged with the stomping on the abdomen of Ted Cruse and then...
There occurs in East Amwell two very distinctive rock formations that are the subjects of tales of ghosts and specters. The Three Brothers rock formation is on the west side of Reillyville Road almost across the street from the Sourland Preserve. It is a formation of...
One of the many jobs that local historian Ed Quick had was Justice of the Peace. In the Quick Collection is his “General Criminal Docket of East Amwell” spanning the years 1941-1948. This book holds all the arrests occurring in the Township during that period. Below...
Up until recent times the Sourland Mountains were a place to avoid – unless of course you lived there. From colonial times until well after the Lindbergh Kidnapping in 1932, people stayed out of the Sourlands because of its reputation as an area where people...
It always fascinates me what can turn up regarding East Amwell historical memorabilia. Recently I was at dinner with members of the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum Board (SSAM) when one of its members said that at a recent book signing an unknown woman...
