• GRIGGSTOWN: Photos show canal history
  • PERRINEVILLE: Township history

    PERRINEVILLE: Township history

    Township of Millstone website Millstone Township is located in the southwestern section of Monmouth County New Jersey. The residents still enjoy the beautiful landscape our town’s forefathers enjoyed centuries ago. Our first residents were the Lenape Indians. Later the Europeans came to clear land for homesteads, which in turn became our farmlands of today. Our…

  • GRIGGSTOWN: Photos show canal history

    GRIGGSTOWN: Photos show canal history

    This series of photos in the state’s archives, includes 39 views of the Delaware and Raritan Canal taken during the period 1935-1936, according to information posted on the state’s website. The collection was compiled by Henry B. Kümmel, State Geologist and Director of the New Jersey Department of Conservation and Development, which administered the canal…

  • JACKSONVILLE: Township information

    SPRINNGFIELD TOWNSHIP  Mayor Denis McDaniel  723-8222  Tax Rate: The current property tax rate for Springfield Township is 2.211 cents per $100 of assessed value. The average home in Springfield is assessed at $321,701 and the average tax bill is $7,112.81.  Government: Springfield has a five-person Township Council. Members serve four-year terms…

  • BLAWENBERG: Band’s rich heritage

    BLAWENBERG: Band’s rich heritage

    Established 1890 Founded in Blawenburg, New Jersey, in 1890, the Blawenburg Band is a community band – part of a great tradition that began when towns depended upon their own people to provide live music. The band is one of the oldest community bands in the State, and among the most active. In 1999 the…

  • BLAWENBERG: Band’s rich heritage
  • JACOBSTOWN: township information

    SPRINNGFIELD TOWNSHIP  Mayor Denis McDaniel  723-8222  Tax Rate: The current property tax rate for Springfield Township is 2.211 cents per $100 of assessed value. The average home in Springfield is assessed at $321,701 and the average tax bill is $7,112.81.  Government: Springfield has a five-person Township Council. Members serve four-year terms…

  • Keep Calm and Call a Counselor

    Keep Calm and Call a Counselor

    By: Jessica Jensen When one hears the word counseling, what is the first thing that comes to mind?  Is it that counseling can help people with all different types of problems like making a tough decision,  working through family troubles, or loss of a job?  Or do you think counseling is only for those people…

  • HARBOURTON: Early history

    HARBOURTON: Early history

    Photo from the Hopewell Historical Society website

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