MONUMENTAL MYSTERY -- When the tombstone shop, headquartered in a barn across from the cemetery, went out of business in 1961, a big...

Capt. William H. – (1819-1900) was born in Kingwood Township and was a merchant and postmaster in Baptistown. He was township clerk and...

DRAG RACES – From the mid-1960s to about '75, drag races were conducted in Kingwood Township, just south of Fairview Road on a stretch of...

MALLET-PREVOST, Paul Henri – (1756-1833) If Frenchtown has a founder, it is this man. He was born in Geneva, Switzerland, on Jan. 30,...

After yesterday's tragic posting, how about this little heart-warmer? HOFF, Bessie L. – (1879-1935) and her husband, Cornelius S.,...

Tragedy north of town – In the wee hours of Sunday, Aug. 2, 1953, the combination of restless boys and a powerful car would exact a heavy...

TREASURE ISLAND – is a 42-acre island a few miles south of Frenchtown. Although it is closer to Pennsylvania, it is part of Kingwood...

FRENCHTOWN ISLAND CLUB – was established on Pinkerton Island in 1888 by eight Frenchtown residents and eight Lambertville residents....

Bridge jumper – From 1904 on into the '20s, Murphy Jones, an African-American garbage collector was jumping into the Delaware River from...

TIMBER RAFTS – In 1764 former sailor Daniel Skinner (1733-1813) of Callicoon, N.Y., fastened together a batch of logs – six 70-foot pines...

HOT RODDERS – In the early 1950s Frenchtown was beset by a new problem: reckless young men in powerful cars. In March of 1952 Mayor Hugh...

RICE, Dr. William – (1836-1901) was Frenchtown's second mayor, serving in 1868-69. A Bucks County native, he joined the Frenchtown...

The Frenchtown Star gives this account of the time Grover Cleveland came from his home in Princeton and went fishing with Howard...

Horace “Huck” Sipes – (1905-2003) pressman for his father's printing business and newspaper, the Frenchtown Star. When William H. Sipes...

The first of many trains arrived in Frenchtown in 1853 and with them came commerce, mobility, excitement – and sometimes tragedy. The...

From 1853 to 1976 trains were rolling through Frenchtown along riverside tracks. Some of the trains were slow, but others that weren't...

That hiking and biking trail that goes along the river the length of Frenchtown is called “The Towpath,” and maybe it will be a towpath...

Delaware Valley News – was where I had a seven-year bout with workaholism. And I've been resting up ever since. No one but a workaholic...

The Delaware River bridge's wooden-plank deck was replaced with a steel open-grate deck in 1949. Although the superstructure is 20th...

THE BRIDGE – The Alexandria Delaware Bridge Co. was organized in 1842 and it got quick results. Pedestrians could cross the new covered...