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Monday, November 28, 2011

1912: Pennington New Jersey Begins to Grow


THIS IS A "RE-RUN" OF A 2009 PENNINGTON GRAPHIC. I AM POSTING IT AGAIN SO THAT VISITORS TO THIS SITE CAN NARROW DOWN THEIR SPECIFIC SEARCHES ON A SPECIFIC SUBJECT. HERE'S HOW: WHEN YOU LOG ON TO MY BLOG, YOU WILL SEE A WHITE SPACE UNDER THE HOME PAGE GRAPHIC WITH THE WORD "SEARCH." IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR "PENNINGTON" AS IN THIS CASE, TYPE IN PENNINGTON (UPPER OR LOWER CASE, NO QUOTATION MARKS.) CLICK ON SEARCH. WAIT A FEW MILI-SECONDS AND WHILE STILL ON THE PAGE, ARROW DOWN TO THE FILES FOUND. REMEMBER TO RIGHT CLICK ON THE GRAPHIC AND CHOOSE "OPEN LINK IN A NEW WINDOW" WHERE YOU CAN SAVE IT TO YOUR COMPUTER. PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO CREDIT THE TRENTON TIMES, GAZETTE, OR TRUE AMERICAN, AND ALSO THE HAMILTON TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY LOCAL HISTORY COLLECTION. HAPPY HUNTING AND ENJOY!

From my "HOPEWELL-PENNINGTON" folder, this interesting article detailing the real estate development of the town of Pennington. Did you know that Mayor William Howe purchased and planted trees from Pennington to Ewing, all along today's Pennington Road? He did!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Tom's swimming hole was over at Lakeside or Gropp's and though not as large or grand, Pennington had Hiohela on Route 69 (changed to 31 due to the Class of 69 at Trenton State stealing signs), they had a swim platform and diving board and of course, the Hiohela Bowling Lanes.

I got a chuckle reading in a local paper stories of the Twin Pine Airport, amused that some old bird with a twinkle in his eye, took sport with a young reporter. He spun a tale of how Lucky Lindy, yes, Charles Lindbergh kept a Curtis Jenny there some parts of which are still in a dark corner of the hangar. "Sources" tell me that the Lone Eagle had departed New Jersey for England and Paris never to return years before Pennington Airport opened in 1950.

Ed Millerick