by Greg Ciano | Jun 25, 2024
The Fair Is Back! October 5, 2024 10 am – 4 pm On Bank Street in Hightstown, NJ For directions to the fair Click This Link. Bank Street is next to the Historical Society which is at 164 North Main Street, Hightstown, NJ 08520. Artisans & Crafters! Food Trucks...
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 Robert Craig with updates from Cappy Stults | 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 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...
