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• 2006 - On September 25, 2010, The Historical Society of the Somerset Hills will be 82 years old! Happy Birthday.
• 1722 - John Annin, officially know as John Johnston of Annandale, Scotland, arrives in Bernards and took title to 1,000 acres. The settlement was known as Annin's Corner until the Revolution, when the name is changed to Liberty Corner.

How People Searched and Landed at the The Historical Society of The Somerset Hills Web sites in 2011

Maybe you've seen them on TV during Presidential debates, or on CNN when they're trying to determine what people are looking for online. The term is called "Word Clouding" and it's a very cool way to see what people are looking for online.

Below is an image of the THSSH's Keyword Cloud, using technique called Keyword Search Clouds. Search Clouds are used to visually represent what key words people use when trying to get information from The Historical Society of the Somerset Hills web sites.

Here's how it works: The bigger the word, the more searches using that phrase or word was used.
Over 6,000 google searches were gathered for the analysis representing Google search data from November 2010 - November 2011.

A word search cloud identifies the words used most frequently in a text or the data most frequently appearing when online users are searching to and ultimately land at the Vanderveer website. Another term is called a "Tag Cloud" or "Keyword Cloud". The term keyword cloud is sometimes used as a search engine marketing (SEM) term that refers to a group of keywords that are relevant to a specific website. In recent years tag clouds have gained popularity because of their role in search engine optimization of web pages. Tag clouds as navigation tools make the website appear more interlinked, when crawled by a search engine spider, which may improve the site's search engine rank

Here's the detailed Wordle analysis tool of keyword phrases used over the last year that land people at our web sites (Click to Enlarge)

2011 Top 25 Search Results

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About The Brick Academy

The Brick Academy (also known as the Basking Ridge Classical Schoolhouse) is a 1809 Federal-style architectural structure located in the center of Basking Ridge in Bernards Township. The Brick Academy has been a boys’ private preparatory school, a public school, a meeting hall for several fraternal and benevolent organizations, and the Bernards Township municipal building. It currently serves as the headquarters of The Historical Society of the Somerset Hills, as well as a schoolhouse and museum to local history. The Brick Academy also celebrated its bicentennial in 2009.

About the Historical Society of the Somerset Hills (THSSH)

Founded in 1928 originally as the Historical Society of Basking Ridge, the mission and name of the society was later changed to The Historical Society of the Somerset Hills, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization including all five communities of the Somerset Hills region: Bedminster Township, Bernards Township, Bernardsville ,Far Hills, Peapack-Gladstone which are all located in Somerset County, New Jersey.

The mission of The Historical Society of the Somerset Hills (THSSH) is to acquire, conserve and share local artifacts and information on matters of local historic interest; cultivate interest in local history; encourage the preservation of local historic resources; facilitate historic research; and preserve, operate, and interpret the Brick Academy.

To further this mission, THSSH sponsors events and activities that promote community awareness and appreciation of the history and architecture of the Somerset Hills. THSSH headquarters is at the Brick Academy in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards Township, where our collections of items of local historic interest are available to the public.