Pine Barrens Tavern: E-Biking Atsion-Quaker Bridge
Some would call the region through which it passes “desolate”; a better word would be “subtle” A.D. Pierce, Iron in…
E-Biking the Pole Farm
About 10 miles wandering around Mercer Meadows (a.ka. the Pole Farm) and Rosedale Park.
The Eternal Struggle: History vs. Ghost Stories
Was N.J.’s Spy House one of the most haunted spots in the country? That’s up for debate The Seabrook-Wilson House,…
Deferred Maintenance at Independence National Park
David Murrell on everything that’s not being done for the Philadelphia birthplace of the United States: Independence National Park Is…
Cadwalader Park Natural Area
Cadwalader Park was created by the city of Trenton in 1888 from land previously owned by Dr.Thomas Cadwalader. In 1890,…
So the Man behind the Salisbury Steak is from Upstate New York
Salisbury steak: not just a hamburger without a bun. The inventor was James Henry Salisbury and he was born in…
Louis Sullivan’s Jewel Box in Grinnell
The Merchants National Bank building in Grinnell, Iowa, also known as the Jewel Box, was designed by famed architect Louis…
Early Images of the Classical World: Daguerreotypes of the Monumental Journey
In the 1840s, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, a French photographer and architectural historian, took thousands of photographic images of monuments…
“The Wife of my Youth”
This 19th century graveyard monument in Mercer Cemetery engraved to “The Wife of My Youth” first makes you wonder what…
Mercer Cemetery
The Mercer Cemetery in Trenton, NJ, was created in the 1840s. There were few new internments after the 1930s. Unlike…