Penny Postcard Video - Postcards from the early 1900's from around the Somerset Hills. For a larger view as well as photo descriptions - Click Here.

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Walking Tour of Basking Ridge

A great way to see some of the most noted historical sites in and around the downtown Basking Ridge area.

Published 2004

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Somerset County
Historic Sites & Districts (2009)

A fantastic 59 page book including sketch drawings, town by town listings, and stories about all of the state and nationally registered historical assets in Somerset County, New Jersey.

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Village of Basking Ridge 1873

From the Atlas of Somerset County, New Jersey, published by Beers, Comstock & Cline, 36 Vesey Street, New York, 1873.

Township of Bedminster Map 1873

From the Atlas of Somerset County, New Jersey, published by Beers, Comstock & Cline, 36 Vesey Street, New York, 1873.

Map - Bullions Tavern (Now Liberty Corner, Bernards Township)

CourtesyW3R and Library of Congress.

Map - Bullions Tavern (Now Liberty Corner, Bernards Township)

CourtesyW3R and Library of Congress

From the Volume set "The American Campaigns of Rochambeau's Army 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783. Translated and Edited by Howard Rice and Anne Brown, Princeton University Press, Brown University Press, 1927

Map - Bullions Tavern 1781 (Now Liberty Corner, Bernards Township)

From the Volume set "The American Campaigns of Rochambeau's Army 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783. Translated and Edited by Howard Rice and Anne Brown, Princeton University Press, Brown University Press, 1927

Liberty Corner (1873)

From the Atlas of Somerset County, New Jersey, published by Beers, Comstock & Cline, 36 Vesey Street, New York, 1873.

Bernardsville & Madisonville 1873

From the Atlas of Somerset County, New Jersey, published by Beers, Comstock & Cline, 36 Vesey Street, New York, 1873.

Lesser Cross Roads,

Bedminster 1873

From the Atlas of Somerset County, New Jersey, published by Beers, Comstock & Cline, 36 Vesey Street, New York, 1873.

1880 Map of Pleasant Valley

(W. Millington/Millington/Lyons-Bernards Township) what looks like the junction of Valley Road and Stonehouse Roads today (see Baptist Church icon)

Greater Bernards (1875)

From the Atlas of Somerset County, New Jersey, published by Beers, Comstock & Cline, 36 Vesey Street, New York, 1873.

Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church Graveyard Map - Oak Tree Area

Cemetery Burial Records/ Maps - Presbyterian Church, Basking Ridge

See if you have ancestors from the region. 700+ plot records!

Cemetery Records from the Basking Ridge
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Village of Peapack (1850)

Then part of Bedminster.

From the Atlas of Somerset County, New Jersey, published by Beers, Comstock & Cline, 36 Vesey Street, New York, 1873.

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Thortons 1700 map of the East West Jersey region. John Thornton’s massive atlas of maritime charts covering the entire nautical world. On this copper-engraved early English nautical chart includes soundings in New York harbor, Delaware Bay, and off shore. The diagonal lines are early colonial boundaries. The beautiful hand-colored outline and wash coloring is original.

North and South New Jersey (or East and West Jersey in colonial times) have always differed in some respect—geographically, politically. The northern areas were settled by the Dutch, and had a commercial focus strongly oriented toward the New York City market. The southern part of the state was settled by Swedes along the Delaware, and was a more rural farm-based economy linked to Philadelphia markets. The Dutch eventually took over the Swedish colonies, and those were subsequently taken by the English. The royal province of New Jersey was established by the English in 1702. During the American Revolution, New Jersey was a crossroads of conflict.

Somerset County - 1779

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