Somerset Hills Historic Spotlight

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Somerset Hills Historical Tidbits ...

• 1931 - Tommy Dorsey - The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing, purchases the red brick Tall Oaks estate in Bernardsville and lives there until 1941.
  
  
• 1733 - The name "Basking Ridge" first appeared in the records of the Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church in 1733. The writer noted that wild animals from the surrounding lowlands would bask in the sunlight on the ridge. At that time, the church was a log cabin on what is now East Oak Street.

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