Tales of Blawenburg

Print Post In this blog, we explore the history of one property, just one lot.

Print Post 2026 Montgomery/Rocky Hill Rotary’s Flags for Heroes display at Montgomery High School If you passed by Montgomery High School between Memorial Day and Independence Day, you would have seen the 60+ American flags on display on Route 601.

Print Post The story of the unofficial mayor of Blawenburg was chronicled in a Van Harlingen Historical Society Oral History based on a 1997 interview with Lawrence Koplik.

Print Post “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.”

Print Post In Blog 23 (A Church Comes to Blawenburg - September, 2019), there was brief mention of the 1860 donation to purchase a bell for the Reformed Dutch Church of Blawenburg by wealthy financier Paul Tulane.

Post Blog I accumulate many bits of information from readers, newspaper searches, and the internet.

Print Post Blog 118 ~ From Car Repairs to Pizzeria The store that currently operates as New World Pizza on Route 601 (Blawenburg-Belle Mead Road) just north of Georgetown Franklin Turnpike (Route 518) has had a diverse past.

By David Cochran Print Post Blog 116 was about the various organs of Blawenburg Church.

Print Post 116 Blawenburg Church Organs, The Rest of the Story By David Cochran Church organs often are taken for granted.

By David Cochran Print Post In 2021, I published four blogs (#62-65) about the State Village for Epileptics and the other State institutions that followed it: 1898-1952: New Jersey State Village for Epileptics, aka the Village. 1953 – 1983: New Jersey Neu…

Print Post Over the past eight years, I have shared information about the houses, people, and historical features in and around the...

Print Post Tales of Blawenburg is usually about historical tales related to the village.

Print Post In previous blogs, we have discussed the main road through Blawenburg, Georgetown – Franklin Turnpike.

Print Post It is interesting to find out when, where, how and why the old houses and businesses of Blawenburg emerged.

Print Post Some of the buildings of Washington Well Farm have stood along Route 518 for 275 years, longer than the United States has been...

Print Post The store on the northeast corner of Blawenburg crossroads has undergone many transitions over the years.

Print Post “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”

Print Post Ladies and gentlemen: The story you are about to hear is true.

Print Post Sometimes new information comes from the strangest places.

This blog is based on an interview I had with J.