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• 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.
• 1912 - April 14, 1912, Colonel John Jacob Astor IV, who lived in what is today the Bernards Township Administration Building, perished in the sinking of the Titanic. 1,523 people perished in the accident.

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Digital Archive Update

Historical newsletters from days past now availabe for download.

BERNARDS TWP. – Once left in two spiral bound notebooks in the archives of the Historical Society of the Somerset Hills, two volumes of the historicial society's past are now available for download. Travel back in time to 1957 thru 1976.

Learn about the area, the people, and the discussions of the times between 1957 thru to 1976.

Exerpts that can't be missed

September 1957

The drought of 1957

May , 1958

Dear Fellow Member:
We have been fortunate for our May meeting to have found a
person who has a "reflectoscope" which permits photographs and other
memorabilia to be enlarged on a screen.

We are further fortunate that the owner, Miss Naud Van Arsdale (she Will be with us) is an old time
resident of our area who can tell and show what things were like when city folk esteemed it a great privilege to spend a vacation or a sea_
son on or near the "bQsking'" ridge. Some of our members, too, who have
spend a vacation or a season on or near the "basking" ridge.