Widow McCrea House – is a bed & breakfast at 53 Kingwood Avenue with a detached cottage and five guest rooms. The Victorian house has...

In the winter of 1881-82 some animals associated with the J.H. Murray Circus, Menagerie, Museum & Aquarium wintered on the Magee farm....

HUDNIT, Samuel – (1822-1873) was Frenchtown's first mayor, as well as its third and fifth – outdoing Grover Cleveland as a discontinuous...

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....

Dr. Roy L. Mullins, (1895-1980), originally from western Virginia, practiced medicine in Frenchtown from 1934 to 1969. He bought the...

Not everyone buried in the Frenchtown Cemetery ever lived in Frenchtown. Here are four of them: BUTLER, 1st Lt. Charles A. Jr. –...

APGAR, Mae Ruth – (1891-1984) who went by her middle name, was born in The National Hotel. To complete her high school education, she...

RATION BOOK No. 2 – Sometimes an archaeologic item, like the Dead Sea Scrolls or the Rosetta Stone, deserves mention. For Frenchtown...

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...

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....

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...

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...

“The Spirit of the American Doughboy” has stood in front of the Frenchtown school ever since 1926, the year the school opened. Mayor...

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...

Buildings that burned up: (clockwise from left) The Temperance House Hotel, The Press newspaper and print shop, and Hummer's furniture &...

BOROUGH HALL – on Second Street was originally a Presbyterian chapel that was built in 1845. After the Presbyterians built a grander...

RUSTICATED CONCRETE BLOCKS – or rock-faced blocks are hollow and shaped to imitate stone. The product of new technology, they enjoyed a...

BURR, Aaron -- There's a legend, immortalized in Clarence Fargo's “History of Frenchtown” (1933) that Vice President Aaron Burr and his...

THE TERRIERS – Patches was a wire-haired terrier that Saylor “Bill” and Eveyln “Sue” Miller brought along when they moved to Frenchtown...