Every day or so I check “Ringoes” out on ebay to see if there are any “finds” that the Historical Society might want to buy. Over the years we have purchased many items that are now in our collections. Recently I saw a medicine bottle marked “Dr. A.M. Hart, Ringoes,...
Going up Lindbergh Road towards the Lindbergh Estate, you pass Ridge Road, South Hill Road and Zion Road. Just before you exit the Township you come to Burd Lane on your left with “Private-No Trespassing” signs. This non-descript gravel lane has had quite a history...
I had the occasion of spending a few hours at East Amwell School going through the teacher registers of the Mountain Grove School on Lindbergh Road. This was the oldest continually operating school in the Township holding classes from approximately 1814 to...
Cloverhill is the only town in the area to have parts of it in three townships (East Amwell, Raritan, and Hillsborough), and sit in two counties- Hunterdon and Somerset. It is interesting that the original dividing line between the early provinces of East and West...
Every once in a while I come across a story of an East Amwell resident that bears repeating. Such was the strange and uplifting tale of Harold Norbury as told in a Democrat article from 1961.Born in Ringoes in 1886, Harold Norbury worked on local farms and when he was...
In January 1935 more than 10,000 people surrounded the courthouse in downtown Flemington as the dramatic Lindbergh baby kidnapping trial played out within the beautiful 1828 historic building. The curious watched the comings and goings of some of the era’s most...
