Somerset Hills Historic Spotlight

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Somerset Hills Historic Tidbits ...

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• The Somerset Hills is a region of within Northern Somerset County containing Bernardsville Borough, Bedminster Township , Bernards Township, Far Hills Borough, and the Twin Boroughs of Peapack Gladstone.
  
  
• 1923 - The Friends of the Oak Tree was organized in 1923 to save the 600 year old oak tree in the Basking Ridge Presbyterian Churchyard. The tree trunk was cleaned of its disease, leaving space for four men to stand in its trunk. Three tons of Concrete were poured into the cavity.

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