This bar in Denville seems pretty cool. It’s only the second thatched roof Irish bar in the United States. In bridgewater Twp, a superfund site got submerged in over 10 feet of water for a long time. Did those water leech toxins and move them around? Probably. Shipwrecks off the jersey and Maryland coastline are [...]
Archive for the ‘Middlesex’ Category
18 Jan
Recent news
Bergen record article on a study of some really really old rocks in Passaic County AMC is bringing it’s “dine-in theaters to NJ, but they’re only coming to central jersey for now. I wanna try this even if it means going down to Bridgewater jsut for a movie. A stockpile of 2600 tons of mercury [...]
25 Aug
Still wouldn’t help exit 13 on the NJTPK.
To neutralize the smell of the Middlesex County landfillthey’re spraying citrus scent to mask it.
18 Apr
middlesex beach shut down for next 5-10 years because of teh leads
and of course locals are ticked off The Environmental Protection Agency is shutting down 1.3 square miles of coastal property, much of it along Raritan Bay, because dangerous levels of lead were found in the soil. EPA officials said they would post 4-by-4-foot, bilingual notices warning of the threat posed by contamination, and will install [...]
16 Apr
first black voter in NJ
On March 31, 1870, Thomas Mundy Peterson (1824 – 1904) of Perth Amboy, New Jersey became the first African-American to vote in an election under the just enacted provisions of the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution. He was born in Metuchen to parents that had been slaves owned by the Mundy family. He [...]
16 Apr
the shantytown home of Pink Bellamy
Pink Austin Bellamy is, from a technical standpoint, homeless. He has been homeless for 16 years, living in a squatters village behind the Pathmark in Hopelawn, NJ. If you were to visit this enclave you would find everything you would probably expect to find: garbage and broken pieces of furniture, dozens of feral cats, signs [...]
8 Apr
The first execution in NJ
The marker at this location commemorates the first hanging in NJ history. I assume they mean official hanging….Located on the appropriately named Gallows Hill Rd, it is unlikely to be seen unless looked for specifically.
3 Apr
Old French cemetery
This is an old graveyard which is very much forgotten, with graves dating back to the 1800′s The grave sits atop a hill that is almost inaccessible due to its steep incline and heavy grass, but it is doable The graves are in mostly good shape for their age, and it has a desolate feel [...]
3 Apr
Mary Ellis cemetery
Mary Ellis lived in the area of NJ that would become Edison & Rahway 200 years after her death. She lived near the Raritan River, and in 1813 purchased a piece of farm land near it’s banks. She married a sea captain, but he went to sea & never returned. In 1827 she passed away, [...]
1 Apr
Different plans to deal with flooding at very different levels of completion
Plans hope to avoid disatrous floods such as from Hurricane Floyd As the muddy river reached for the traffic lights, residents of both towns were rescued from rooftops. Bound Brook borough became a boundless brook, as water from the Raritan River gushed onto Main Street in Somerset County’s oldest community, reaching heights of 10 feet [...]
