by Admin | Feb 29, 2024 | Local Businesses
In the December 2018 issue of the newsletter, Bob Craig wrote about the Frank C. Underhill Ice Plant, which was off of the north side of Stockton Street, roughly in the rear of where CCL is now located. During Labor Day 2019, my wife and I were at our vacation...
by Admin | Jan 27, 2024 | Schools
Horse drawn school buses in front of the Mercer Street School. We’re all aware of the current group of elementary, middle, and high schools, but before these structures, there was a whole different set of buildings being used for educating our students. As they...
by Admin | Dec 27, 2023 | Local Businesses
The Rug Mill in the 1920s. Memories From My Youth When I was young (the 1950s and 1960s), nearly every Hightstown-East Windsor area resident had a family member who either worked at or had worked at the Hightstown Smyrna Rug Factory, aka Hightstown Rug Company more...
by Admin | Nov 24, 2023 | Religious Institutions
by Robert Craig with updates by Cappy Stults. While giving historical walking and bus tours around town, many questions are asked and a couple deserve some special attention. One is “what was where Perritt Labs is today before it was the post office” and...
by Admin | Oct 27, 2023 | Local Businesses
Many people have been past or on Bank Street. The question that has been asked many times is, “Where did the bank go?” The short answer is that the business relocated to 106 North Main Street, the present location of Allen & Stults Insurance. Anyone...
