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...

When talking to folks about Hidden New Jersey , we sometimes get suggestions for stories that are more along the "scary" or "...

Every year on the third Saturday in May, thoroughbred horse racing fans watch the Preakness, the second leg of the famed Triple Crown. That...

It’s hard to imagine, but an unassuming century-old house in a cramped Haledon neighborhood was once the epicenter of a broad movement to im...

I was on my way into Haledon when I came upon a sign for the National Spring Company. It seemed a little odd there would be a water spring i...

Long-time readers might remember our article on Dr. Rose Faughnan , the Ellis Island physician who was, herself, a classic example of the Am...

Paterson is known as Silk City for good reason: at one point, two-thirds of the nation's silk output came from the city's 175 silk m...

This weekend's search for winter finches brought us into Passaic County's more wooded spots, particularly the Pequannock watershed. ...

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

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 ...

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art contains one of the world's finest and most diverse collections, thanks in large part to a cra...

In a park on a quiet, wooded hillside on Pompton Lake, there's a small sign that says, simply, "Lad." Not far away, there'...

One of my favorite New Jersey-based movies is The Station Agent, a quiet independent movie made eight or nine years ago. Some of the early s...

Several eagles from New York left Manhattan in 1963, taking a strange migration to places far afield. Some roosted and remain in the same lo...

Did you know that Paterson is home to the world's largest collection of spoons? You read that right: the world's largest assembly ...

Considering that no Civil War battle was fought in New Jersey, I've often found it difficult to relate to the conflict the way I do to t...

Long Pond Ironworks Historic District is literally hidden from the average motorist driving by on Greenwood Lake Turnpike in Hewitt. From th...

I'm always amused by the international road signs that point the direction to airports in remote areas. Usually, they depict a silhouett...

Another ‘hidden in plain sight’ New Jersey notable is America’s first planned industrial community. Combine one of the state’s grittiest ci...

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that Cleveland's birthplace was our second stop of the day. We ventured out early (relatively,...