This old photo shows the Yardville Grammar School as it looked early in the 20th century. The building still stands on Route 156 and is an a...

This 1932 photo reports on the amateur radio activities of DVRA pioneer Yardley Beers. Mr. Beers is seated in his shack, with a communicatio...

"HAMILTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS - THE WAY THEY WERE" Compiled and edited by Tom Glover Public education has played a vital role in the...

Beautiful, isn't she? This old 1909 clip shows the borough hall in its infancy. The building was built on the Swann property.

Ahh, yes, I remember it well! This was the one place where a teenage boy wanted to avoid like the proverbial plague. We had to go there ever...

THANKS TO AN EMAIL FROM CLAIRE DWIER ZARR FOR CORRECTING ME, AND IDENTIFYING THIS AS THE SCHOOL PATROL FROM KUSER SCHOOL 1956. CLAIRE'S ...

Here is the other half of the Kuser School Safety Patrol of '56. Sorry I have to cut these very long (0ver 14 inches) photos in half, bu...

Daniel Peters was a vendor of baked goods and a supplier to the troops at Hamilton Township's Camp Olden.

If there is any segment of my collection that holds a special interest to me, it is the vintage town views. This view shows So. Broad Street...

This is a very LARGE graphic. Due to the limitations on the size of this window, you will not be able to read this page. It is displayed as...

From my "Notable Persons" file in the Hamilton Local History Collection, this photo of a young Karl Weidel, Jr. Young Mr. Weidel w...

Another reminder on managing the graphics on this site: To save: RIGHT CLICK on the graphic. Click SAVE TARGET AS and choose a spot on y...

The Mercer automobile was in the height of its popularity in the 1909-1914 era. By 1914, as the accompanying article reveals, factory floor ...

Twenty first century computer technology has opened a whole new world for historic research. The above poster is on display at the Hamilton ...

I and my contemporaries must have lived a very sheltered life. It wasn't until I saw the movie, "The Man With The Golden Arm" ...

This article deals with the exhorbitant "sickout" record of a number of Trenton police officers. It also contains interesting stat...

An interesting article tells of the notorious Civil War prison, where Union soldiers were ruthlessly treated.

Another very scarce insight to the local lore of Hamilton's Camp Olde n. Were this article published in the 20th century, there probably...

Constant and ongoing searching for anything relating to Camp Olden has resulted in this poor example of a computer graphic. Unfortunately, t...

Years ago, the city of Trenton's police department had two precincts. "P1", illustrated above is a photo of the Chancery Stree...

This exquisite engraving of the predecessor to A.J. Rider's colleges which evolved over the years.

THIS IS THE FIRE COMPANY I GREW UP WITH. OLD TIME FIREFIGHTERS LIKE THE LENHARDT FAMILY, NORM BADE, JESS ANDERSON, CLIFF WILLEVER, FRANK PET...

The very beautiful First Baptist Church on Centre Street in Trenton celebrated 200 years of Baptist presence in the city of Trenton. There a...

January, 1906 - January 2006. Comparing today's Trenton crime rate with that of one hundred years ago: an interesting comparison.

You're well over 50 if you remember "Brock's Buick." For at least 50 years Brock's was the authorized dealer for the B...

A shorter school day? Paying a teacher $600 per year? What is this world coming to? Things have certainly changed since the publication of t...

Here is a very early and interesting story of the famous Civil War Parrot gun, the "Swamp Angel," written just few years after the...

THE CHAMBERSBURG OF 1877 IS DESCRIBED IN THIS ARTICLE.

St. Alphonsus had its start way back in the 1870's when Mass was celebrated at the farm of Daniel and Hannah Reardon. As the little Cath...

Did you know that the Kusers and Roeblings were proposing an auto speedway around Woonamassa Mountain in the picturesque village of Penningt...

Did you know that back in the 1850's the area east of the canal on South Broad Street was mostly cornfields and orchards? From Broad and...

Airplane model building is near the top of my very special boyhood memories. Brother Bud and his buddies, "Beb" and "Brut...

Proving that these now-antiquarian newspapers are a valuable research tool. What a fascinating extract! An accurate account of a steamboat ...

Hail to my alma mater! Hail to the class of '51, "The Class with Class," as I named her for our 50th reunion. Indeed, hail to...

The "Automobilia" file in the Hamilton Library's Local History Collection is literally overflowing. From the earliest years of...

I am completely fascinated by the early years of the public school system in Hamilton, Trenton, and the surrounding Mercer County and Centra...

The local press had a very annoying habit. The Mercer Automobile Company and the New Jersey State Fair were always listed as a Trenton venu...

Woodlawn Park was a very popular amusement park back in the 1920's. It was located in an area bordered by South Logan, Greenwood, and ...

The Trenton Times and Daily State Gazette were very consistant in their coverage of the many events in the suburban areas of Mercer and surr...

There they are, the Central High School Service Corps! There is a possibility that a relative is shown in the photo. Remember, you can click...

Here's a photo of the indomitable Trenton Catholic Basketball team of 1940. The sports program at "Catholic" was always in th...

During the 1800's there were many hotels in the city of Trenton. The graphic here shows one of the lesser known hotels.

Did you know that Lambertville was once known as "Bungtown?" It took a man by the name of John Lambert to change the name to the L...

One hundred years after the battle of Princeton, this centennial writeup was published in the Trenton "Daily True American." It ma...

Just a reminder to let you know that most of the graphics on this site can be enlarged by clicking on them. Depending on the size of the gra...

There are numerous files in my "Hamilton Scrapbook" relating to the ice skating park that was once located in the Bellevue- Prospe...

Do you remember THE KEYSTONE AUTOMOBILE CLUB SAFTEY PATROL? Here's a photo of the Homedell School patrol from 1937

Once again we journey back to the 1970's for a manually transcribed article I copied from the Daily State Gazette. The police department...

I have a substantial file of Chambersburg related history, and an even larger collection of interesting American-Italian historical lore. Th...

TRIBUTE TO A FRIEND It stands there now, as it has stood, for lo, these many years. A childhood friend, whose inner rooms have witnessed...