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 | 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...
