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Rick Epstein
Apr 13, 20204 min read
Rooms With Wraiths
Widow McCrea House – is a bed & breakfast at 53 Kingwood Avenue with a detached cottage and five guest rooms. The Victorian house has...
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Rick Epstein
Apr 12, 20203 min read
Circuses Wintered Across the River
In the winter of 1881-82 some animals associated with the J.H. Murray Circus, Menagerie, Museum & Aquarium wintered on the Magee farm....
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Rick Epstein
Apr 11, 20203 min read
First Mayor Was a Busy Bee
HUDNIT, Samuel – (1822-1873) was Frenchtown's first mayor, as well as its third and fifth – outdoing Grover Cleveland as a discontinuous...
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Rick Epstein
Apr 10, 20202 min read
Tennis, Anyone?
THE COUNTRY CLUB – formed in July of 1901 and rented I.S. Curtis' vacant lot on the northwest corner of Fourth Street and Milford Road....
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Rick Epstein
Apr 9, 20201 min read
Frenchtown's 9-Bed Hospital
Dr. Roy L. Mullins, (1895-1980), originally from western Virginia, practiced medicine in Frenchtown from 1934 to 1969. He bought the...
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Rick Epstein
Apr 8, 20202 min read
They Abide, but Didn't Reside
Not everyone buried in the Frenchtown Cemetery ever lived in Frenchtown. Here are four of them: BUTLER, 1st Lt. Charles A. Jr. –...
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Rick Epstein
Apr 7, 20203 min read
Born in The National Hotel
APGAR, Mae Ruth – (1891-1984) who went by her middle name, was born in The National Hotel. To complete her high school education, she...
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Rick Epstein
Apr 5, 20206 min read
Antique 'Burn Book' Discovered
RATION BOOK No. 2 – Sometimes an archaeologic item, like the Dead Sea Scrolls or the Rosetta Stone, deserves mention. For Frenchtown...
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Rick Epstein
Apr 1, 20207 min read
Horses Were Born to Run (Suddenly)
HORSES – Imagine your car has a mind of its own. Imagine that your car is a prey animal, whose primary response to any surprise is to run...
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Rick Epstein
Mar 31, 20201 min read
What's Sadder Than a Failed Toy Factory?
This photo of the factory at the foot of Sixth Street was taken in the mid-1950s by Don Godown. It was not the first factory on that site....
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Rick Epstein
Mar 30, 20205 min read
Richard Kerr Was a Chick Magnate
Here's a photo of Kerr's big hatchery that stood on the outside bend of Front and Lott streets from 1926 to 1973.. CHICKEN HATCHERS – In...
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Rick Epstein
Mar 29, 20202 min read
This Was Our Founder's Crib
That's Paul Henri Mallet-Prevost, the guy who fled France to escape the guillotine in 1794 and came here and bought 968 acres comprising...
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Rick Epstein
Mar 24, 20202 min read
Frenchtown's Unknown Soldier
“The Spirit of the American Doughboy” has stood in front of the Frenchtown school ever since 1926, the year the school opened. Mayor...
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Rick Epstein
Mar 23, 20201 min read
The Liberty Bell Rolled By
You could have stood on Bridge Street in Frenchtown on Nov. 25, 1915, and gotten a look at the genuine, one and only Liberty Bell. Here's...
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Rick Epstein
Mar 19, 202012 min read
Did Dr. Deemy's Horse Burn Half the Town?
Buildings that burned up: (clockwise from left) The Temperance House Hotel, The Press newspaper and print shop, and Hummer's furniture &...
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Rick Epstein
Nov 3, 20193 min read
How we got our Borough Hall
BOROUGH HALL – on Second Street was originally a Presbyterian chapel that was built in 1845. After the Presbyterians built a grander...
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Rick Epstein
Nov 3, 20192 min read
Ever notice these building blocks?
RUSTICATED CONCRETE BLOCKS – or rock-faced blocks are hollow and shaped to imitate stone. The product of new technology, they enjoyed a...
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Rick Epstein
Mar 24, 20192 min read
Aaron Burr didn't sleep here. But he wanted to!
BURR, Aaron -- There's a legend, immortalized in Clarence Fargo's “History of Frenchtown” (1933) that Vice President Aaron Burr and his...
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Rick Epstein
Jan 1, 20192 min read
The Original Terriers
THE TERRIERS – Patches was a wire-haired terrier that Saylor “Bill” and Eveyln “Sue” Miller brought along when they moved to Frenchtown...
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