Hidden New Jersey

We've shared many aspects about the many heroic, though lesser-known aspects of New Jersey's Revolutionary War history. We've vi...

Its gilded dome shining on a bluff above the Delaware River, the New Jersey State House isn't exactly hidden, but if you were Governor R...

No matter how much we think we know about New Jersey's role in the American Revolution, no matter how many relevant sites we've unea...

Standing as it does within a decommissioned U.S. Army fort, it's difficult to imagine that the Sandy Hook Lighthouse was once the target...

It's not often my mind gets blown on a Hidden New Jersey jaunt. We see a lot of wonderful things and meet many interesting people in our...

Morristown National Historical Park is deceptively large, holding surprises for those who go beyond the obvious to seek out the entirety of ...

World War II brought us Rosie the Riveter, the fictional female defense worker who represented hundreds of thousands of real women who took ...

Keep your eyes open in the remarkable colonial community of Bordentown , and you'll find the intersection of art and patriotism. Standin...

One of the fascinating aspects of Northern New Jersey is how history is sometimes obscured within the community that's developed around ...

When inclement weather forces us Hidden New Jersey ans to curtail travel, we often turn to other means of exploration. The reference books a...

You wouldn't know it from its neighbors, but a small park tucked between two oil refineries on the banks of the Delaware River has a ver...

After a visit to the State Line Lookout hawkwatch in Palisades Interstate Park, we took an exploratory drive literally down the cliff to Alp...

An internet search of "Cannon Ball House" reveals a number of historic houses in America that had the misfortune of being hit by l...

We're rather accustomed to finding unusual things on our journeys, but I'm still tickled when a random discovery unexpectedly links ...

One of the highlights of my Union County travels during this year's Four Centuries Weekend was a visit to the home of former United Stat...

The dry history lessons of our school days often did a disservice to some really cool and interesting people. Without checking out the stori...

If you're of a certain age, you might recall that certain older houses had signs which declared that George Washington had slept in them...

One of these days I'm going to put together a "Washington slept here" map of all of the locations where the General stayed in ...