The new process as seen in the article above tells of the change in naming the schools from the old method of using street names, to nam...

Hey Mike Kuzma, in keeping with the spirit of this website's slogan, "Local History With A Personal Touch," I am posting ...

This list of schools doesn't include all of Trenton's schools. However, it will be of interest to those visitors to this site who ar...

Here is another post from the Trenton Evening Times' 1937 series of articles on the schools in the city of Trenton. I have consolidat...

Hey Alan Wildblood, here's another photo of a member of the Wildblood family; a pioneer family in the Hamilton-Liberty-Colonial Gardens ...

There are two Tessein, and two Barkholz family members in the photo above. In keeping with my custom of posting articles and photos of famil...

Another rare State Gazette photo of the Franklin School as it was being constructed during the year 1913. I am particularly intrigued by the...

 This new Epson tabloid scanner Library Director George Conwell procured for the Local History Collection is incredible. Consider the fac...

Could that little fellow identified as "Carmen Armenti" be our own former Trenton Mayor, the very popular Carmen Armenti? Only a...

This graphic gives an interesting detail of the cleaning, painting, and fixup projects taken on by the Trenton School system. The list of sc...

I posted the article above and the two separate graphics in order to clarify where the Cadwalder and Joseph Wood Schools were located. (I ad...

I have no information on the numerous "Junior" schools in the Trenton of yesterday. I would assume that the board of education sav...

Many familiar names from my 75 years in the local area .....Bonanni, Buffin, Lawton, Loser, Stia...

Today it's known as the Grace Dunn Middle School. Many of my visitors are alumni from the old Junior 4 on Dayton Street in Trenton.

Due to their size, I had to download two separate graphics for this post, detailing the dedication of Trenton's Franklin School. Therefo...

HERE'S A CLASS PHOTO OF LINCOLN SCHOOL'S CLASS OF 1938. IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO REALIZE THAT WE IN THE TRENTON-MERCER AREA HAD A ...

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THE CITY OF TRENTON EXCELLED IN EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE. SUPERINTENDENT PAUL LOSER WAS ONE OF THE "KEEPERS OF THE ...

These photos date back to the years when Trenton's school system was among the best in the state. I recently wrote a column on the old L...

Years ago, long before the advent of all those glass encrusted high rise office buildings in the Market, Cooper and Lamberton Street area, t...