Archive for the ‘Essex’ Category
18 Apr
$800k grant will help reforest South Mountain Reservation
“It looks like a healthy canopy, but it’s in fact a dying forest.” Sometimes nature needs a little help. Endowed with $800,000 in state and Essex County grants, the South Mountain Conservancy’s members, local residents and oth ers have embarked on a plan they hope will help reforest nearly all 2,000 acres of the South [...]
9 Apr
is there anything left of the psych facility in Cedar grove?
I had assumed it was all torn down a few years back, but now I’m not so sure. A friend of mine clued me in a show called Ghost Adventures on the Travel Channel. No, not ghost hunters, that’s a different show. He told me that a recent episode was filmed in an unnamed NJ [...]
7 Apr
concrete bunker
got this picture from a viewer. here’s the details… On my brother inlaws property in Cedar Grove the is an old Concrete Bunker buried into side of a mountain. Keep up the great work on the site
3 Apr
the graves beneath the PAC center
Located centrally to the entrance is a memorial to the 1400 people buried in the graveyard of the Trinity Lutheran Church. When the PAC center was built the graveyard stood in the way. The church was very very old, apparently built around 1740. I don’t know if the graveyard was moved, or if they built [...]
3 Apr
The Slave Grave at the HS
MLK HS in Passaic needed more space and 2003 an 8 million construction project began. Workers dug up human bones, halting construction. construction began on a project to build 23 pre-K classrooms. The site has been surmised to be home to a slave cemetery for years, most recently in 1992 when city historian Mark Auerbach [...]
2 Apr
Singing Sam
Singing Sam Stevens is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Hillside. I don’t really know much more then that, and the fact that this is one of the most ornate graves I’ve ever seen.
2 Apr
Where are the bodies?
Sometime in the 1970′s a small cemetery with about 50 people buried in it became a frequent hangout for unsavory characters. Vandals knocked over the headstones, there was graffitti, trash and filth and the place wasn’t maintained. There were weeds and bushes out of control. The park dept decided to convert it to a park [...]
1 Apr
$117K can still buy you a house in Montclair
It is a fixer upper of course… The tiny, circa-1890 frame house on the narrowest of lots — just 18 feet wide — is as modest as a single-family home can get so close to Montclair’s stately Estate section, where a handsome six-bedroom colonial with “old world craftsmanship” is listed at $1.49 million. The mini-house [...]
