LEWIS, Aaron Rittenhouse – (1857-?) was the son of Samuel and Eliza, who had a farm near Baptistown. Eliza was a sister of Frenchtown's...

SHURTZ Nathan – (1818-1902) owner of N. Shurtz & Co.'s Empire Spoke Works on the south bank of the Little Nishisackawick. He lived at 3...

PIZZERIAS Jack's Pizza – Pizza-maker Jack Mannino opened his pizzeria in 1972 on western corner of Trenton Avenue and Bridge Street in...

"GYPSIES" – now more courteously known as Romani travelers, used to camp briefly in Frenchtown as they wended their way across the...

The first celebrity through here was probably British Gen. William Howe, commander of the British Army in America, who availed himself of...

OWNERSHIP OF FRENCHTOWN – In its early days the land that would eventually become Frenchtown was all one piece, and any non-owning...

A young stranger spent most of a December day in 1939 lurking around Frenchtown, paying particular attention to Harman's Rexall Drug...

BENCH BOYS – In 1961 the Frenchtown branch of the Hunterdon County National Bank put on a brick addition and erected a white...

FERRIES – The first record of a ferry at what is now Frenchtown is of London Ferry in 1741. The boat was poled across. The name of the...

CARY, Claiborne – (1932-2010) Broadway performer, TV actor and cabaret singer, she and husband Chuck Northrup, a former Wall Street...

STUNTS, GAGS and SHENANIGANS The Great Walk of 1963 – What began as morning banter in the Candy Kitchen between proprietor Pete Bournias...

DURHAM BOATS – had their moment in 1776 when they carried George Washington and the Continental Army across the Delaware to win the...

You know that out-of-place monument in Frenchtown that stands beside the hiking/biking trail? The one that was deliberately put there by...

NEWSPAPERS -- Hunterdon Independent – For 70 years, Frenchtown had two weekly newspapers. The first was the Frenchtown Press, Charles...

If you've been yearning for a complete list of Frenchtown's mayors, yearn no more. Here it is: 1867 Samuel B. Hudnit, harness maker,...

In 1966 the office of the Frenchtown Building & Loan Association was burglarized. The crime was made noteworthy by miscalculations by the...

Lots of Frenchtown folks remember No. 12 Bridge Street as the Apgar mansion, since a dwindling number of Apgars lived there from 1910 to...

AUTO DEALERS Ditschman Ford – William S. “Bill” Ditschman (1915-1999) opened his Mobil station in Frenchtown on the eastern corner of...

In 1956 with Frenchtown High School enrollment overflowing, the borough school board published a leaflet making the case for a “West...

Members of the Frenchtown Presbyterian Church's Junior Christian Endeavor had their picture taken on May 22, 1904. Back in 1979, one of...