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[READ: March 2024] Neshanic and Neshanic Station
My son bought me this book for Christmas. It’s a historical look at our town, assembled by the Neshanic Station Historical Society.
I’m fairly certain every town has one of the books in the Images of America series. And they are basically lots of photos of interesting (or not) scenes from the history of the area.
Obviously, the bigger the area, the likelihood there is for more pictures.
Neshanic and Neshanic Station are small villages that are part of Hillsborough and Branchburg respectively and it’s pretty clear that initially one or two families owned much of the area.
It was once a fairly thriving area, with a train station and a lot of businesses. Most of those businesses are now residences. There were two schools in the area both are now gone. The train station is no more, although the train does still pass through.
It’s now a sweet, quiet place to live with a lot of historical information available.
The book shows lots of pictures of what it was like in the early 1900s through the 1950s with a couple of contemporary (circa 1990s) photos as well.
A lot of the same names appear in the photos– I do wonder if a call for pictures from other families was put forth.
My favorite parts were seeing the roads that I know now as the were–unpaved and with no houses when the village was first founded. And seeing that one of those original schools was possibly on our current property–maybe a metal detector is called for!
It was interesting reading this and realizing just how much is different in the 25 years since the book came out.
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