Event Details - Historical Society of The Somerset Hills

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1845 - Grant Barney Schley, a founding father of Far Hills, was born in 1845 at Chapinville, N.Y., near Syracuse, to a farm family of humble circumstances. He obtained only an elementary school education. At the age of 16 he went to work for as a peach picker and shipping clerk for Wells, Butterfield and Company, a Syracuse firm which later merged with others (George F. Baker's First National Bank) to become the American Express Company.
1967 - Declining school enrollment and rising educational costs led to the closing of the Far Hills School in 1967. It was a decision painfully reached and sharply opposed by local families who had sent three generations of children to the village school. The borough's 80 kindergarten through 8th grade students began attending Bedminster School in the fall of 1967.

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15 West Oak Street,
Basking Ridge, NJ 07920
Telephone: (908) 221-1770

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THSSH Upcoming Events
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March 19 , 2009	Speaker Series at THSSH - George B Post - Father of New York's Tall Buildings and the Somerset Hills Mountain Colony

April 4, 2009	The Historical Society of the Somerset Hills is sponsoring the first statewide Historic Schoolhouse Summit and Symposium at the 200 year old Brick Academy in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. more

April 16 , 2009	Speaker Series at THSSH - The way of Improvements Lead Home

Saturday, May 16, 2009	Basking Ridge Charter Day Street Fair & Festival Bernards Township's 15th Running of the Annual Charter Day Festival promises to be a fun and festive day with its vendors, displays, service groups and strong emphasis on history...Learn More

July/July 2009	History Camp at Bedminster's Historic Jacobus Vanderveer House. The second ever "History Camp" is open to Somerset County residents, 9 to 12 years of age. THSSH will be displaying and presenting an entire day of events in conjunction with the famed house that once housed General Knox during the Revolutionary War. Click for Details

September 17, 2009	Speaker Series at THSSH

October 4, 2009	Lord Stirling Festival

October 15, 2009	Speaker Series at THSSH

October 17-18, 2009	Somerset County's Journey thru the Past Weekend

October 2009	Bedminster Fall Fest (Founders Day) - Details

October 2009	Bernardsville Founders Day

November 19, 2009	Speaker Series at THSSH

December 6 , 2009	Holiday House Tour - (Our Grandest Event) Click Here

Events listed above are those officially sponsored and/or officially endorsed and supported by The Historical Society of the Somerset Hills and it's affiliate organizations. Please feel free to list your event in the Events Section of the Online Discussion Forum - Click Here The Bernardsville News, the areas local newspaper also offers an online calendar of Events

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THSSH Upcoming Events in the Somerset Hills

THSSH Upcoming Events
in the Somerset Hills