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  • Episode 6: Mendham’s Municipal Madness

    Episode 6: Mendham’s Municipal Madness
    Jun 12 2024
    Listen on your favorite podcast player:iTunesSpotifyOvercastHeartRadioAmazon MusicBibliography:Karcher, Alan; (1998). New Jersey’s Multiple Municipal Madness. Rutgers University PressTranscriptWhen choosing a new hometown, it’s probably a good idea to know which town you’re choosing.When I first purchased a house in Mendham, I didn’t quite realize that it was one of two towns. Yes, there were two Mendham’s on the map, but I came from California where I didn’t have townships or boroughs, and hadn’t really any thought to the names of towns, or their boundaries, or how that might affect how they operate. So when we bought our house in Mendham, I thought it was just in Mendham, and that Google Maps was just a little bit confused. Until recycling day…When we moved here we had a surplus of cardboard and styrofoam. So I googled “styrofoam recycling Mendham”, and was pointed to a recycling place very close to my house. This is the Mendham Borough Public Works Garage. I pulled up, and asked where I could drop off my styrofoam. And they answered: “Do you live in the Township or the Borough”? I wasn’t quite sure. I told them I lived in the Oak Knoll neighborhood.“Oh, that's the TOWNSHIP,” they said. “This is only for BOROUGH residents. You’ll have to leave your recycling on the street and the Department of Public Works will pick it up. But that's only for cardboard and cans. Styrofoam has its own recycling day.” And, of course, they didn’t know when that was. So I left the recycling center with more questions than answers. What was Mendham Borough and what was the Township? And why was there a difference? Had it always been this way? And most importantly, I still wondered, when is styrofoam recycling day?(Theme)Welcome to Hometown History. A series about the iconic places and events that make a town someplace people call home - stories that people can tell to their friends old and new about the place they live, did live, or will live: In my case, Mendham TOWNSHIP, New Jersey. Because there are indeed TWO Mendhams, Mendham Township and Mendham Borough. And in THIS episode, we talk about the Township and the Borough, and the real reasons behind how and why…more than 100 years ago…they split. If you’re not from New Jersey, the whole Borough / Township thing can be a bit confusing. If you look at a map of Mendham, you’ll notice that the borough is sitting inside of the township, like a fried egg: the borough (the yolk) is surrounded by the township (the egg white). Easy enough, right? But while it’s pretty easy to picture a fried egg, in reality the lines between Mendham Borough and Mendham Township are extremely subtle. Many people, myself included, might not even know which one they’re in. There’s a few hints, like the Abner Doubleday sign welcoming you to Mendham Borough, and the fact that homes in the township are often farther apart than they are in the Borough’s center. The biggest giveaway might be the fact that Katie’s kids, who live in Mendham Borough, will attend Hilltop Elementary School in the dead center of Mendham, but my kids, who live in the Township will attend Brookside Elementary school, even though that’s WAY over on the other side of the egg white.But while this sort of municipal structure might be a headache for parents, it’s not really uncommon here in New Jersey. Like, for example, Princeton, New Jersey. Liz Lempert is the former mayor of the Municipality of Princeton. LIZ: I served two terms for a total of eight years, from 2013 to 2020.Liz explained the most basic differences between boroughs and townships, which come down to governance. LIZ: The Township form of government has five elected officials, and the mayor is chosen by the five people amongst themselves. The Borough has a directly elected mayor and then six council people. But outside of the way you elect your government, there's really no rules as to how boroughs and townships relate to each other. Liz told me that Princeton’s borough and township essentially worked together across a lot of different departments. LIZ: So, we had a shared Recreation Department, a shared library. We had a shared Planning Department, shared court system. In Mendham, things are slightly different. Clearly as I discovered when I tried to go to the recycling center. It would have been much easier if I could have just gone to the place right around the corner from my home. Or if my kids could go to the elementary school that’s closer to where they live. Now that I understood better the way things worked in Mendham Township and Mendham Borough. I wanted to understand why.A few weeks after my conveniently inconvenient trip to the recycling center, I learned that a neighbor of mine was a council member for Mendham Township. JORDAN: My name is Jordan Orlins. I was elected for the Mendham township committee for the years 2020, '21, '22.Jordan was the perfect person to go to for...
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    18 mins
  • Episode 5: The Black Horse

    Episode 5: The Black Horse
    Jun 5 2024
    Listen on your favorite podcast player:iTunesSpotifyOvercastHeartRadioAmazon MusicBibliography:Martha G.; Edward W. Roessler & Wallace G. West Hopler (1964). The Mendhams. Publisher: Mendham Township Committee.Foster, Janet W. (1986). Legacy Through the Lens: A Study of Mendham Architecture. Mendham Free Public Library.Transcript:Outside of New York City, New Jersey has some of the oldest restaurants in the U.S. Sitting near the top of that list is an institution that started out as an Inn waaaay back in 1743, but has weathered more than one storm to become an icon of Mendham: The Black Horse.For those who don’t know, the Black Horse Tavern and Pub is essentially the geographical and cultural center of Mendham Borough. You can’t drive down Main Street without noticing the big white colonial era building at the northwest corner of Mountain Avenue. I arrived in Mendham in the midst of the pandemic. Restaurants were closing everywhere. Businesses were struggling. But The Black Horse was still open, thriving even. And then I find out that it has been operating since before we even had a constitution. How is this possible???The answer has to do with consistency. The story of humanity is the story of consistency. When life changes, consistency sets you at ease. Sad events like funerals, happy ones like marriages - world-changing events like 9/11 or local events like a hurricane - these things all drive a need for consistency. Nowhere in Mendham is this felt more than at the Black Horse, where this town was essentially founded. Where weary travelers stopped on their journey west. Where a future president (whos name rhymed with Florge Floshington ) maybe stopped to discuss revolutionary matters. Where a modern-day diva came for a night out with her family and enjoyed the bubbly shrimp. According to menutiger.com, three out of five restaurants won’t make it past their first year. But somehow, The Black Horse managed to beat the odds again and again, for 275 years., making it the oldest continually operating restaurant in New Jersey. Perhaps the original proprietor, Ebenezer Byram, read this statistic from menutiger.com and thought “Good sir, those facts are preposterous and must be fixed…I’ll mend ‘em!” (Theme)Welcome to Hometown History, a series about the iconic places and events that make a town someplace people call home. Stories that people can tell to their friends old and new about the place they live, did live, or will live: In my case, Mendham, New Jersey. And today we talk about the unique recipe that one of Mendham’s iconic institutions - a Tavern, Inn and Pub - used to stay in business for 275 years.–It started as a farmhouse. In 1743, Fifty two year old Ebenezer Byram moved his large family - five sons and three daughters - from Bridgewater, Massachusetts to the backwoods of New Jersey. There’s no record of how many times Byram endured the phrase “Are we there yet?” as he underwent this arduous family trip. Undoubtedly the Byrams were relieved to arrive at their new home - a large farmhouse that was situated along an ancient Lenape trade route. Today, we call it Main Street. In the 1964 book, The Mendhams, the authors note “It seems a mystery as well as legend that a man of considerable means and religious fervor should travel into a far country to set up a tavern in sparsely inhabited hills.”It does sound strange, but from the little we know about Byram, perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising. Byram was a devoutly religious man, civic minded, with a pioneer’s spirit. He was a risk-taker, and was prescient about the future of his new hometown and the significance of his position within it. In 1749, just a few years after Byram arrived, Mendham was officially incorporated as a Township in New Jersey. And this, my dear listeners, is perhaps what you’ve been waiting five episodes to hear about: Where does the name Mendham come from?Well, there are several different theories. Some have said that it was the anglo saxon term for “my home”. Another source claimed that the words “I’ll mend ‘em” were spoken by Rev. Eliab Byram in reference to some unruly customers at his father’s tavern. But the most likely origin story is that it was named after Byram’s ancestral home in Mendham, England, or perhaps borrowed from a town close to Bridgewater, Massachusetts named Mendon. But if it were up to me, I’d prefer to believe in option #2. Byram converted his farmhouse into an Inn, naming it “The Black Horse“ which, metaphorically and literally, put Mendham on the map. The Inn became the township’s center, sitting at the crossroads of two popular trade routes: One from Morristown, New Jersey to Easton, Pennsylvania and another south to what would become Bernards Township. At the onset of the American Revolution Mendham was a small but thriving little village. As travelers underwent the journey from New York to Pennsylvania by horse and ...
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    21 mins
  • Episode 4: When Apples Were King

    Episode 4: When Apples Were King
    May 29 2024
    Listen on your favorite podcast player:iTunesSpotifyOvercastHeartRadioAmazon MusicBibliography:Okrent, Daniel. (2011). Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. Scribner.Mockridge, Ella. (1961). Our MendhamEmmonds, Kate. (1973). Through the Years in Mendham Borough. Self-Published.Theme Music:Howard Harper-Barnes / La Danse Timide / courtesy of www.epidemicsound.comTranscript:In the fall of 1919 Thomas Loughlin was tired and worried. In all his years of selling cider in New Jersey - first in Newark, now here in Mendham - it had never been harder to turn a profit. Twenty years ago, business had been booming. The year 1904 in particular had produced a bumper crop of the best apples New Jersey had ever seen. Not so great for the farmers who had to sell their apple crops at record low prices - but great for cider manufacturers like Loughlin. From the pomace of those superior New Jersey apples, Loughlin was able to bottle and distribute quality hard cider and applejack - the American name for apple brandy. 1904 was also the year Loughlin got an opportunity to expand his business, eventually moving his cider press from its original location in the center of town, into the old Nesbitt grain mill three miles west on Mendham Road. It had been a calculated risk to convert a grain mill into a cider mill, but it had paid off for over a decade. But then there was the 18th Amendment, which had been ratified earlier that year, in January of 1919, making the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol illegal. Prohibition would soon be in effect. But as Thomas Loughlin reflected on the events that brought his business to its knees, he undoubtedly wondered what the future looked like for his mill in Mendham. What would happen to this building that he had painstakingly converted, maintained and operated? Would it even make it past the next decade, or would the wheels of his cider mill stop spinning for good?–(Theme)Welcome to Hometown History…A series about the iconic places and events that make a town someplace people call home - stories that people can tell to their friends old and new about the place they live, did live, or will live: In my case, Mendham, New Jersey. And today, today we talk about how one of the icons in that town - a cider mill - evolved with the times, through legislation meant to dry up all the fun. –Fall harvest is a very special season for Mendham. It’s like this area’s superbowl. Porches explode with pumpkins, leaves on the trees of Jockey Hollow sparkle golden in the sunlight, and tourists flock from all over for apples. (Apple crunch) You can pick them, bob for them, eat them candied or caramelized - but in this town, you can also press them. Every year in early October, the Ralston Cider Mill, in Mendham Township, holds a pressing event (one might even call it a “press conference”).Located on the south side of Rt 24 between Mendham and Chester, the Ralston Cider Mill stands like a large but unassuming sentinel. Its worn wooden stairs and slightly ill-fitting door suggest that this place is original to the era in which it was built.JAMES: So, underneath this wooden piece, you see there's a big vertical rod there that's called the main shaft that went from a turbine…James Malchow, the director of the Ralston Cider Mill Museum in Mendham, gave my producer Katie and me a tour of the inside of the cider mill earlier this spring.Now, the first thing you have to know is this place didn’t always used to be a cider mill. Instead of crushing apples, this mill once used water power to crush grain.In 1848 John Ralston Nesbitt, grandson of the first Ralston to settle here, borrowed money from his mother to build a house and a grain mill on this site. And I say that because nearly every history book mentions this strange fact. Poor guy will forever be known for borrowing money from his mom.But, hey, it was a good investment! Because this 175 year old mill has withstood a retrofit, two gruesome deaths, prohibition, two World Wars, and a family of racoons. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. JAMES: In any case, when you start up the equipment, which I can do, if you like…James has me reach down, and turn a wheel 180 degrees, which starts the apple pressing process. The various belts and wheels, once powered by water from nearby Burnett Brook, kick into gear. Today, everything works using electrical power. As we walk around the mill, James points out the belts and wheels turning slowly but surely to move a giant apple press down.JAMES: The apples come into the building from outside on that conveyor, which is controlled off this shaft. The grater that turns the apples from whole fruit into a mush called pomace is controlled off here. And then when the apples and that pomace are made, they come in down from one floor to the other. Now they are under just the power of gravity…I didn’t realize it until I was doing research for this episode, but New Jersey is, ...
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    17 mins
  • Episode 3: A Tale of Two Churches

    Episode 3: A Tale of Two Churches
    May 22 2024
    Listen on your favorite podcast player:iTunesSpotifyOvercastHeartRadioAmazon MusicBibliography:Mockridge, Ella. (1961). Our MendhamEmmonds, Kate. (1973). Through the Years in Mendham Borough. Self-Published.Martha G.; Edward W. Roessler & Wallace G. West Hopler (1964). The Mendhams. Publisher: Mendham Township Committee. Foster, Janet W. (1986). Legacy Through the Lens: A Study of Mendham Architecture. Mendham Free Public Library.Wright, Helen Martha. (1938). The First Presbyterian Church of Mendham, Morris County, New Jersey and its vital records. Self-published.Transcript:One of the oldest aerial photographs of Mendham highlights a specific building. Maybe you’ve driven by it picking up your kids from school, or you’ve been in it during a Sunday service. It’s a white steepled church on a hill. And regardless of your spiritual beliefs, it stands as one of the iconic symbols of Mendham. So when my producer Katie and I went looking for information on the history of the First Presbyterian Church of Mendham, also known as Hilltop Church…we found something a bit confusing. In several older books written about Mendham history we came across references to not only this FIRST church…but also a second presbyterian church of Mendham. (And listeners, in case you’re not aware, currently, in 2024, there is no Second Presbyterian Church of Mendham)We dug a little deeper and discovered that this second church formed, in 1859, from a breakup of the first church. And whenever there is a schism, there is a story. So we wondered…what event could have caused a congregation that had been around for so long (over 100 years at that point) to fracture? Was it geological? Political? Social? A lover’s quarrel? —(Theme)This is the story of two versions of a church. The story behind why…in 1859…it decided to split. Welcome to Hometown History. A series about the iconic places and events that make a town someplace people call home. Stories that people can tell to their friends old and new about the place they live, did live, or will live: In my case, Mendham, New Jersey. —Now, I know this is the second time we’re talking about the church on this podcast. But that’s because The First Presbyterian Church of Mendham held a commanding position in the life of the town, both physically and culturally, since the day it opened its doors in 1745. In fact, according to English law and tradition, you didn’t even have a permanent community until you established a church. And Hilltop Church is much more than just a place of worship for Mendham. Ask any longtime local, churchgoer or not, and they’ll probably have a story to share about Hilltop. Wait this is great…There’s the one about how Ms. Martha Drake, nee Thompson, sat in church near a window during a violent storm and was struck by lightning.(Thunder crack)Or how Rev. Philip Courtlandt Hay was run out of town for preaching too heavily against the evils of alcohol.And of course there’s the story of how the sanctuary was turned into a hospital for soldiers stricken with smallpox during the Revolutionary War. Twenty-seven of them are buried in the cemetery there.The point is, there isn’t a resident of Mendham who doesn’t know something about the history of The First Presbyterian Church.But what about the Second Presbyterian Church? The one that was created in 1859 from a split at Hilltop? It dissolved in 1904, so it’s not as if there are local residents alive today who can tell us all about it.There are several books written by former residents of the town. Our Mendham, by Ella Mockridge; Through the Years in Mendham Borough, by Kate Emmonds; The Mendhams, by Martha Hopler and others. But none of them dedicate more than a page or two to this particular chapter of Hilltop’s history. The archives of the Mendham Borough Library were able to tell us a little more about the second church as it existed, but not a ton of detail about why it split.So we reached out to Hilltop itself - wasn’t there a trove of records we could take a peek at?(Door squeak)They said yeah, come on over to our library.KATIE: Hello…?Uhh it turns out that the library isn’t actually in the physical church itself.KATIE: Hello…?It’s at Hilltop House, next door to the elementary school, where the Hilltop Nursery School is located.KATIE: “Oh my god I just broke into a church…”Yeah…we should’ve figured that out sooner.(Door squeak)By the way, the building that Katie just broke into here – well, technically she got in through a side door that was open – that church, the one we see today was not the first church to occupy this little hilltop. (Music) The first was built in 1745. It was a modest, square, south-facing structure built by John Cary, a carpenter and friend of one of Mendham’s main forefathers - Ebenezer Byram. Now the Byram family, as we know, had a big role in the early history of Mendham. Ebenezer Byram was the proprietor...
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    19 mins
  • Episode 2: Leaders in Education

    Episode 2: Leaders in Education
    May 15 2024
    Listen on your favorite podcast player:iTunesSpotifyOvercastHeartRadioAmazon MusicBibliographyMockridge, Ella. (1961). Our Mendham Woodard, Colin. (2012). American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. Penguin Books. https://www.amazon.com/American-Nations-History-Regional-Cultures/dp/0143122029Munsell, W. W. (1882). History of Morris County, New JerseyTheme Music:Howard Harper-Barnes / La Danse Timide / courtesy of www.epidemicsound.comTranscript:Working on this podcast about hometowns has me thinking a lot about why people move to Mendham. So I started asking everybody I talked to about their first impressions of this place. MELISSA: I thought it was the most beautiful place I’ve ever seenMelissa Saharko moved to Mendham with her family from the DC area back in 2017. MELISSA: We looked at houses in May and it just, this place sparkles, everything's green, the flowers are blooming... I love a small town Main Street. I love an old house. I love the character. And that’s the answer I hear a lot. Mendham’s got charm and character up the wahzoo.But if you’re putting down roots and starting a family somewhere, you’re going to be looking for more than flags on Main Street to seal the deal. Any parent worth their salt will tell you that education weighs heavily in choosing a new hometown. MELISSA: Maybe it's the crowd I run with, but everyone I meet who's moved to town in the last few years has little kids. They've moved here for the school system. (School sounds)Jessica Couto is a teacher at Mendham Borough’s Hilltop School. She also happens to be my neighbor. JESSICA: The curriculum is challenging, we have high expectations for our students…It's not just one factor that's leading us to have great schools. Mendham Schools are some of the best in New Jersey. Our two public elementary schools have been awarded blue ribbon status, based on academic excellence. Mendham Middle School is ranked 7th in the state - and that’s saying something. You remember how tough middle school is, right? And West Morris Mendham High School is an International Baccalaureate World School, which gives students an option to learn in a flexible and cross-disciplinary environment. By most measures, this means Mendham schools do an amazing job preparing their students for the future. But what makes Mendham schools so good? Is it because this is a highly educated, upper class community? Of course, that’s definitly a factor.But there’s another big reason why Mendham schools are some of the best in the state. And that has to do with…history! —(Theme)Welcome to Hometown History. A series about the iconic places and events that make a town someplace people call home. Stories that people can tell to their friends old and new about the place they live, did live, or will live: In my case, Mendham, New Jersey. —The best schools in the country, also known as the Ivy League, have three things in common, aside from being the best. First, where they’re located.If you pop open google maps, type in Ivy league, you’re not gonna get a map of the entire U.S. Instead, you’ll get a slightly zoomed in map of only a specific area of the country - the Northeast. Second, their age:Harvard, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Columbia, Brown and Dartmouth. They were ALL established before the revolutionary war. They’ve been around a while. And finally, FINALLY, and this is really cool: Who established these schools.William Tennet of Pennsylvania, John Harvard in Cambridge, James Pierpont of Connecticut. These guys had one thing in common. They were all ministers.(Church organ sounds)So what’s the connection between the clergy and education? And what does this all have to do with Mendham?To answer these questions, we have to know a little bit more about the early settlers of America. In fact, let’s take a quick detour into the classroom…this is an episode about education after all.(Classroom sounds)You guys, be quiet. Professor Woodard is here.COLIN: I'm Colin Woodard. I'm the author of six books, including American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, which is a book about how regionalism is vital to understanding our country’s history…Colin Woodard is a historian, author and Pulitzer Prize finalist. His unique area of interest is a fascinating blend of history, culture, and politics. His 2011 book, American Nations, is all about how our colonial past shapes and explains the present. COLIN: Americans…don't know our history very well, and the history we receive is not always super clarifying or accurate.Now, the first thing you have to remember is that America was colonized by several different groups of Europeans at several different times in history. There were Spanish, French, Dutch, English, German, and even Scottish and Irish people. COLIN: They were entirely different cultures and indeed didn't expect ...
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    15 mins
  • Episode 1: Where Are You From?

    Episode 1: Where Are You From?
    May 8 2024
    Listen on your favorite podcast player:iTunesSpotifyOvercastHeartRadioAmazon MusicBibliography: The Centennial Book Committee. (2007) Reflections on a Community. Mendham: Borough of Mendham.https://www.mendhamnj.org/documents/Menhdam%20History/Mendham%20Centenial%20Book%20Reflections%20of%20a%20Community.pdf Manheim, JB. (2023) Doubleday Doubletake: One Ball, Three Strikes, One Man Out (The Deadball Files Book 3). Sunbury Press. https://www.amazon.com/Doubleday-Doubletake-Three-Strikes-Deadball-ebook/dp/B0CHBSTZH6?ref_=ast_author_dpTheme Music: Howard Harper-Barnes / La Danse Timide / courtesy of www.epidemicsound.comTranscript: You know when someone asks you "Where are you from?"Maybe you’re sitting on an airplane getting chummy with the person next to you. Or you’re at a dinner party chatting it up with some people you just met. That question will usually pop up. How do you answer? I’ve lived all over the world, and my answer usually starts with “Well, how much time do you have?” My first hometown, the place where I was born, is Bakersfield, California. And when I tell people I’m from Bakersfield, I also never forget to mention that it is the carrot capital of the world. We’ve been highlighted in some movies, notably Cast Away. You know the port-a-potty Tom Hanks uses to build a boat to escape the island? That is from Bakersfield! I moved from Bakersfield to San Jose for college. I lived in Poland for a summer, New York City for five years, and London for four. In each of these towns, I’d get the question: “So, where are YOU from?” and I would give different answers every time. While living in London, my wife and I went on vacation to Morocco, where we would say “We’re from The UK.” To my British friends I would say “I’m from the US,” or “New York,” or “California.” In the fall of 2020 my wife and I were preparing to move again - from London back to the U.S. - but this time would be different. Our next town would likely be our home for a while. And the question “Where are you from?” would hold more meaning. We’d be putting down roots, buying a house, starting a family. It struck me that I would be choosing a place that my kids would think of as their first hometown - the way I saw Bakersfield, California. How would I even choose?Fast forward to 2023. My wife and I are eating at a nice restaurant in New York City. And this isn’t the type of place where they leave you alone while you eat. They wanna get to know your name, why you’re there, what sports teams you root for. You know, that sort of thing. So of course our maitre d’ kicks things off with: “Where are you guys from?” I nearly jump out of my seat. “We’re from Mendham, New Jersey!” —Welcome to Hometown History. A series about the iconic places and events that make a town someplace people call home. Stories that people can tell to their friends old and new about the place they live, did live, or will live: In my case, Mendham, New Jersey. What is it about this small town, population five thousand seven hundred, that drew my family and centuries of others into its sphere? What makes it feel like the most special place in the Garden State, and the best kept secret in the tri-state area?I’ve spent the last eight months digging into this question, and I think I’ve finally come up with an answer - one I can give my kids when they ask why we moved to this tiny town. And that answer starts with…Abner Doubleday. —In the fall of 2020 my wife and I had just moved back to the U.S. We were living in temporary housing in Morris County, an area we didn’t know much about. We were anxious to find some place more permanent. A house we could really settle into. So on a cold Saturday afternoon we decided to check out an Open House in a nearby town called Mendham. And I think you can probably guess how that turned out.RYAN: Alright, it’s November 20th, 2020. We’re driving in New Jersey, um, and we’re going…MEG: There’s a cop over there.Ryan: Oh, OK. [laugh] We’re going West from Morristown…If you drive west on Route 24 from Morristown, youre gonna pass a few things. You’ll pass Delbarton, which is a boy’s school, once attended by the actor Peter Dinklage. You’re gonna pass a crosswalk denoting something called Patriot’s Path. RYAN: Alright we got to stop for these guys. They have a dog so we have to stop for them.But then, eventually you’ll pass a sign that is not only inviting and quaint, but also educational? It’s a welcome sign.MEG: It says…“Welcome to The Borough of Mendham: Settled in the 1720’s”RYAN: There you go! [laugh]Yeah, weird they couldn’t nail down a specific year. But regardless…it’s definitely old. I mean, this town was around decades before George Washington’s Army spent a hellish winter over in nearby Morristown. But underneath that welcome sign…. is another sign - looking a little like it was placed there after...
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    16 mins
  • Trailer: Hometown History, Mendham NJ

    Trailer: Hometown History, Mendham NJ
    Feb 21 2024

    Coming May 8th:


    Drive through east of Morristown NJ about 15 minutes, and you'll see an iconic sign highlighting a rich regional and national history. This podcast tells the story of how one New Jersey town evolved since its start in the 1740s, survived through the civil war and prohibition, housed national heroes, excelled in education, and has proven resilient through a series of curious schisms.




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