by Greg Ciano | Mar 15, 2024 | Local Businesses
The old post office as it looks today. This is currently Perritt Labs. Back in the Spring of 2020 I had a chance to tour Perritt Labs on South Main Street, formerly the location of the Hightstown Post Office. At the time they came across some old blueprints and photos...
by Cappy Stults | 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 Cappy Stults | 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 Cappy Stults | 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...
by Cappy Stults | Sep 20, 2023 | Local Businesses
Front page of the first Village Record. The Village Record was first started in Hightstown on June 30, 1849. The editors/owners were Jacob Stults and James S. Yard. Stults was only 19 years old and Yard was only 23. After just five months (December 1849), Yard sold...
by Robert Craig | Jun 7, 2023 | Local Businesses
The 1930’s were a time when many people still relied upon manufactured ice for their refrigeration needs. They had ice-box refrigerators in their homes, and they still bought ice to fill them. Hightstown had its own ice-making plant. It stood behind the houses...
