Here we have a splendid example of how a neighborhood changes over 60-plus years. You are at the intersection of Nottingham Way, Hamilt...

  I remember this disaster quite well. I had just passed the area on Quaker Bridge Road perhaps a half hour prior to the explosion ...

I will be retrieving all the Mercerville VFD articles and columns on this site and posting them in another lengthwise "photo album. ...

It is nearly impossible for the younger generation to understand how very rural Hamilton Township was just 50 short years ago. Anywhere yo...

I must have spent the better part of an hour trying to place this early photo of one of Hamilton's busiest intersections. The little ...

Of course, this graphic would make you wonder if there is a relationship with today's locally noted bicycle shop on Route 33 in Mercer...

The "MERCERVILLE" folder in the local history collection houses this 48 year old photo above which shows one of Hamilton's b...

This delightful relic of the past could very well have resided on the shelves of the Hooper-Chamberlain-McCabe general Store back in the ear...

That image of a public whipping at an old fashioned whipping post was borrowed from an old image I found in one of my tattered news clipping...

In and article I wrote some 20 years ago, during the years when I was suggesting that Hamilton Township was woefully inadequate in recording...

This year of 2011 will mark the 30th year I have been writing history and nostalgia for the local press. When I began writing in 1981 for th...

  There are a number of little "itches" that plague those of us who are researching history. For me, one of them is the actu...

What a great photo! Don't miss the "Mercerville Road House" on the extreme right. This photo had a bit of "noise" an...

Thanks to Mr. Bob Schopp for this great photo of the old Public Service trolley which cut through Hamilton Township from the Liberty Stree...

Many thanks to Ms. Lois Marriott Lawrence, Mercerville class of 1948 for this pristine photo of her class. It is always nice when the stud...

Here are the lovely young ladies from the Brownie Scouts as the partipate in "Fly Up" exercises in the church which was once locat...

I purposely scanned this photo in using 300 dpi in order to allow you to place your physical body right in the middle of Nottingham Way near...

Read the above article and learn why Mercerville was once known as "Sandtown," and Yardville "Sand Hills." Indeed, a ver...

Tom Reed has been a glover320.blogspot.com visitor since the very beginning. Tom is also the nephew of legendary fire fighter "Cap...

The Union Methodist Church of Mercerville was demolished in a gas explosion. As I recall it was back in the 1980's when I was commuting ...