INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS The Frenchtown factories – are where the blood really flowed. When rolling through the microfilm of the old...

MANUFACTURING Spokes, hubs, wheels, etc. – In the second half of the 1800s, Frenchtown was a major manufacturer of spokes, hubs and...

Elisha W. – (1852-1912) carried the mail between Frenchtown and Flemington for eight years before going into the horse business circa...

“DANCE COUNTRY” – In 1989 Thomas Henry of Holland Township wanted to convert the recently closed Barn Theatre in Frenchtown into a...

GHOSTS -- The Animated Inn – Andrew and Colleen Tomko have no doubt that the Frenchtown Inn contains spirits. Since 1996 it has been...

GHOSTS -- at The National. Winnifred Seip (Kalnas) lived in The National Hotel in 1955-60. She used to tell her daughter Christina about...

LUNDY, Arthur W. – (1816-1905) The gray house at 25 Front Street that will be next-door neighbor to the new ArtYard theater and gallery...

DOAN, Clarence – (1893-1938) part-time Frenchtown constable, carpenter and projectionist at Fred Sipes' silent-movie theater. He was an...

PALEVEDA, Gloria Sipes – (1925-1999) Daughter of Fred and Marguerite Eichlin Sipes, she wrote a column called “A Fond Look Back” for the...

RITTENHOUSE, Robert W. – (1879-1935) Spend some time in the Frenchtown Cemetery (it's my second home), and you'll surely notice the...

A&P – The grocery store's opening at 26 Bridge Street, Frenchtown, was delayed a day “by the auto truck loaded with their goods crashing...

ARTESIAN WELL – When a 100-foot well was dug for the Barn Theatre in Frenchtown, a pressurized water source was tapped, resulting in an...

BELLIS, Nelverna Eichlin – (1906-1978) was the no-nonsense manager of the Barn Theatre in Frenchtown for most of its existence – from the...

FARGO, Franklin B. “Frank” – (1833-1902) third mayor of Frenchtown. He was born in Chester, Conn., and came to Frenchtown in 1856. He...

STREET LAMPS – An anonymous columnist in the Frenchtown Star reminisced about what it was like before Frenchtown had street lights: On...

The Frenchtown Union National Bank on Bridge Street installed a new vault in 1923. One September morning in 1926 it disappointed the...

TRAIN WRECK IN MILFORD – Six people died after a torrential downpour on Oct. 4, 1877, washed the Quequacomissicong bridge right out from...

FLOOD OF 1841 – On Jan. 8, all the river bridges from Easton to Trenton were swept away, except for half the Lambertville-New Hope...

MUSSELMAN, Jefferson – the first occupant of Frenchtown's holding cell. When the mayor and council of the new borough of Frenchtown went...

GEM THEATRE – In 1932 C. Wilmot Milbury added the Gem Theatre onto the back of the big brick store at 10 Bridge Street. It opened July...