History at Home: Lost Traces of Old New Jersey 

I'm a Montclair native. Being a child in Essex County during the mid-late '60s was awesome because there was such a myriad of footpaths, trails (walking, bike *and* horse), community gardens, parks, streams and brooks. My father and I hiked and walked some hidden gems like the wood behind Glenfield school - stream, train bridge and aqueduct - just filled with wonder and adventure for a father and daughter to explore. The woods next to Nishuane Park was also a favorite, even by myself. There's also great paths along cemeteries (I loved the one where Orange Rd curves into E Orange). My favorite reserves: S Mountain Res (I jumped for joy when Dad said we could feed the Deer) and Eagle Rock with that spectacular view of the NYC skyline (when they had working binocular stands, lol). Montclair is a beautiful place to just walk around leisurely. I lived in South End and would walk from High/Samuel Sts to Montclair Center with no problem in my pre-teens/teens ('70-'78) I remember just walking the length of Upper or S Mountain Aves just to look at the architecture and landscaping. A lot of those homes had carriage houses too. Thanks for this little trip down 'memory lane'. ----------

My ancestors are early settlers of New Jersey

Born in Orange; raised in Livingston. My family is of German descent and lived for many years in Bloomfield.

Great discussion, thanks! learned a lot.

When I was a child in Brookdale Park just south of the Parking Lot was a stone wall and I remember clearly being told is was an ancient “Indian Spring” this was approx 1966.

Terrific!! I loved it! The sound gets warbly a lot but this is just brilliant and the amount of time and effort that George Musser Jr. spent researching this is just amazing!! What is so sad is that no one has ever been able to excavate the headquarters and camps before they were plowed over with modern macadam and businesses.

Good info, nice video, audio problems.

What's the history behind the underground of the train stations ,filled in, from Orange through East orange? I've explored there extensively.

I'm from Hackensack n.j. originally, but I now live in Barnegat n.j.

Most of my ancesters from 1600-1700's are from New Jersey. I'm probably related to almost everyone in NJ lol😂😅❤. I have found ancesters buried in freehold cematary around 1700s, and pennington 1600s, Atlantic County 1700.

There is a few Clovis points amongst the arrowhead collection. I can’t state enough the historical value of the collection. The Clovis points could date to 10,000 years ago! The notched arrowheads could be around 1500years old. There must have been different settlements on the same area of the park in the different strata layers of the dirt. It is a shame an archeological dig did not take place , as the info gleaned would have been properly recorded and cataloged. I was born and raised in Bloomfield. Thank you for the presentation. My great grandma owned a tenement house, great grandfather worked for railroad , both in Newark. Grandparents lived and worked in Bloomfield/Newark NJ Bell. My parents lived on Essex ave Bloomfield and worked NJ Bell/ Bell Atlantic/ Verizon 440 broad st Newark.

There's large foundations along the brook in Essex Fells, don't know what was there.

Born in Montclair.✊🏻

I have discovered hidden ruins in east orange NJ all around the train tracks and there is clearly an underground level the the train stations, that has been filled in. They say wee built in 1890s I think . And there is a ton of old world ancient architecture and h a church every block going down main street into Orange

Tom Cruise lived in Glen Ridge and graduated from the high school there.

How about south Jersey 😂😂😂