The Roads of Home
The Roads of Home

Author: Henry Charlton Beck

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780813510187

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Long regarded as folklife classics, Henry Charlton Beck's books are vivid recreations of the back roads, small towns, and legends that give New Jersey its special character.

Dunellen
Dunellen

Author: John Triolo

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0738591610

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If the Elizabethtown & Somerville Railroad had not laid tracks through the area in 1840, Dunellen would not exist today. In 1867, the Central New Jersey Land Improvement Company founded Dunellen from a small slice of Piscataway. Their vision was to create a bedroom community for New York City that offered stores and services to support residents; in 1887, Dunellen was incorporated as a borough. Called the "Emerald of the Plain," Dunellen was promoted as a resort with stagecoaches taking tourists from the Railroad Depot to Washington Rock and other resort locations several times a day. By the turn of the century, Dunellen had become an industrialized community with companies specializing in steel fabrication, printing, and brick and concrete block production. Through vintage images, Dunellen chronicles the evolution of the community from its early history to today, coming full circle as a bedroom community known as "The Railroad Town."

The Old National Road
The Old National Road

Author: Archer Butler Hulbert

Publisher:

Published: 1901

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13:

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A history of the creation of the Old National Road connecting Ohio, Indiana and Illinois and its importance in the expansion and enrichment of America.

The Pennsylvania-German
The Pennsylvania-German

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1909

Total Pages: 708

ISBN-13:

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Devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants.

East Amwell
East Amwell

Author:

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738573212

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Bordered by the Sourland Mountains, East Amwell's fertile valley farmlands have been attracting settlers since 1720. The village of Ringoes, Hunterdon County's oldest known settlement, was founded at the intersection of two Native American trails that became major crossroads: the Trenton-Easton Turnpike and the Old York Road from Philadelphia to New York. Early residents included Johann Peter Rockefeller, ancestor of John D. Rockefeller, and John Ringo, rumored to have buried treasure in town. During the Revolutionary War, the Sons of Liberty gathered at Ringoes Tavern, the Marquis de Lafayette recuperated nearby at Landis House, and Capt. John Schenck led an ambush on British dragoons near his Amwell home. Houses, mills, taverns, and general stores sprung up in Ringoes and smaller hamlets, as first the stagecoach and then the railroad brought prosperity and industry to this rural township. In 1932, what journalist H. L. Mencken called "the biggest story since the Resurrection" unfolded in East Amwell when Charles Lindbergh's son was kidnapped from his estate.