Hidden New Jersey

Paterson may be nationally known as Silk City, but if you wander around New Jersey long enough, you'll find other places with legacies o...

Walk around Princeton's atmospheric Palmer Square, and you'd be excused if you thought parts of it had been there since the American...

Standing on the beach at the very tip of New Jersey during our most recent birding jaunt , my mind went back to a curious story I’d heard a ...

If you look through the trees along the northbound side of the Garden State Parkway northbound, just before exit 136, you might notice an en...

Acres and acres of pitch pines and other evergreens obscure the remnants of industry that once dotted the Pinelands. Land cleared for pig ir...

So... I left the house this morning thinking I was on a somewhat religious journey, but I ran into something I didn't expect. I was on...

Take a drive around Bergen County, and you're likely to pass a few Dutch Colonial houses that predate the founding of the United States....

A few weeks ago we explored the Stelton area of Piscataway to tease out the history of early 20th century settlement there. You might recall...

Over the past couple of years, we've found a host of planned communities and colonies that were built around New Jersey. They're usu...

Wrong turns can lead you into some puzzling places, as was reconfirmed to me recently. I was driving along Broadway in Gloucester City, look...

Our tour of tiny enclaves continues with Victory Gardens, which is not only the smallest and most densely populated, but the youngest munici...

If it hasn't already become obvious, I'm intrigued by planned communities. There's something fascinating about an enclave where ...

If you drove through the Camden County borough of Lawnside, you'd be excused for thinking it's no different from any other small tow...

Road tripping can take various forms, depending on what you want to find and what kind of hassles you hope to avoid. On a recent trip, we de...

You wouldn't know it from its sedate downtown today, but Pitman was once such a popular summer destination that more than a dozen trains...

Drive down Middlesex County Road 615 and you'll eventually run into the town of Helmetta, its welcome signs highlighted by a rendition o...

If you make it to Cook College Ag Field Day tomorrow (and I hope you do!), take a few minutes to stroll down College Farm Road to Helyar Ho...

Not far from the site of the actual Fort Lee in Fort Lee, there's a tiny enclave that's been both a haven for the well-to-do and a c...

Deep in the heart of New Jersey is a community constructed in whole cloth, so to speak, by the Federal government during the Great Depressio...