Hidden New Jersey

A few years ago, we were absolutely blown away by the history we found nestled among the old industrial grittiness of  Perth Amboy . Once th...

In New Jersey, as in the other 12 original states, there are plenty of places and things that use the word  patriot  in their names. Busines...

Newark has attracted more than its share of creative thinkers who've made huge contributions to their professions and industries. As we ...

People sometimes tend to forget that New Jersey's largest cities are among our oldest. Take, for example, Newark. Gleaming new buildings...

Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area is loaded with them: old houses and buildings that largely stand empty, the silent tribute to ...

Our visit to Ledgewood's historic King Store opened our eyes to the retail world of a small community along the Morris Canal in the 19t...

Morris County's old Ledgewood Circle is no more, but if you follow a couple of small brown directional signs to the Drakesville Historic...

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....

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

I've driven through enough small towns in the rural reaches of New Jersey to know they can be anything from run-down shells of their for...

So often we find interesting stories because of a proposed, epic change to a historic property. Earlier this year, we learned about a ground...

I love a good border dispute, and New Jersey has had its share. The most recent reached the U.S. Supreme Court, when New Jersey won bragging...

After my visit to the Old Yellow Meeting House , I took a look at my trusty DeLorme road atlas and the 1939  WPA Guide to New Jersey to fig...

A few weeks ago I got a message from Hidden New Jersey reader and renowned bird blogger Rick Wright, asking whether I'd ever written a...

Pick any four-year college in New Jersey, and it's likely you'll find a bunch of old houses on campus, renovated for educational pur...

In our last post , we talked about Fort Lee's history as the world's first moviemaking capital, and the near absence of any visible ...

Keep your eyes open when you drive around Fort Lee, and you'll see something curious. Instead of the usual nondescript signs, some stree...

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...