WORLD WAR I – As the Great War was heating up in Europe, the American armed forces were not prepared. Neither were our poets, as...

BARN THEATRE – opened in 1939, air conditioned, with a knotty-pine lobby and 477 comfortable seats within. Its 4-acre site between Upper...

OAKLEY, Annie – (1860-1926) was the sharpshooting star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, a Western-themed circus that entertained...

TRASH DISPOSAL – There was a big dump south of town on the old river road, but there were also lesser dumps. Marguerite Sipes said that...

LODGES – flourished in Frenchtown from the mid-1800s into the mid-1900s. Most, but not all, of them were for men. They mixed mystical...

STUNTS, GAGS and SHENANIGANS -- Lizard menace – Before Frenchtown High School was built in 1925, the Star reported that Bert Trimmer and...

ELECTRICITY – On Dec. 23, 1903, the Frenchtown Star reported, “An electric plant is being put in to run the Worman Mills by dynamos. The...

LOPER, Raymond “Butch” – (1888-1956) son of William and Cora, had a butcher shop/IGA grocery store at 108 Harrison Street. He also worked...

Alexandria Hotel – also known as “the old brick tavern,” was built in 1805 by Paul Henry M. Prevost in what is now the Bridge Street...

THE NATIONAL HOTEL – was built in 1850 by Robert L. “Uncle Bob” Williams. He didn't like selling liquor, so he didn't keep the hotel for...

SIPES, Thomas M. /James Ross – (1900-1953) was a son of Mina and William H. Sipes, editor and publisher of the Frenchtown Star. In an...

On June 7, 1917, a surly farm hand set fire to the Holland Township home of the Queen family and killed them with an ax. The farmstead,...

Kerr Hatcheries, headquartered in Frenchtown and with hatcheries in four states, were hatching and shipping baby chicks by the millions...

THE NISHISACKAWICK CREEK enters the Delaware River at Frenchtown. There are two Nishisackawicks. The Big comes in from the northeast, and...

WORMAN MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN – Philadelphia liquor distributor Samuel C. Worman (1836-1912) had a farm near Frenchtown. When he died...

ZICH, Gerald E. “Jerry” – (1907-1987) became a reporter for the Hunterdon County Democrat in 1928, and helped cover the Lindbergh...

THE BANK – The Union Bank of Frenchtown was organized in 1856 and established at 22 Second Street in a newly constructed...

A old scrapbook kept by Frenchtown hotel owner William C. Apgar contains the following item clipped from an unspecified newspaper. It is...

AUTOMOBILES – Frenchtown entered the Automobile Age very quietly on July 2, 1900. The Star barely gave it a mention: “The first...

Birthday boys – On Feb. 21, 1934, a birthday party was held at the Presbyterian manse to celebrate the statistically unlikely fact that...