One hundred years ago this month, several weeks after the Great Ice Storm, the Princeton Republic reported that a writer representing the Milwaukee Sentinel was
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WATER STREET BY DECADES (1850s-2000s)
This was a fun winter project inspired by Bill Zamzow, former president of the Princeton Historical Society, who shared memories of Carl Huenerberg about the
THE IRISH CHURCH – ST. PATRICK’S
“Timothy Sullivan was a Christian example to old and young.This church is his monument.” Rev. Thomas Janikowski, 1918, St. Patrick Catholic Church As St. Patrick’s
LOTS O’ HISTORY | 705, 708, 711 WEST WATER STREET
My initial survey of the first 150 years of the Water Street business district, 1849-1999, focused on the 400, 500 and 600 blocks, but a
FACT CHECK: THE 92ND BIRTHDAY EDITION
I have written previously about the difficulties I encountered in researching the history of “Old Princeton” for my book. A combination of mistaken “oral traditions,”
THE RUSSELL BROTHERS
Today we are tracing the steps of another set of brothers – Marion and Oliver Russell – who walked the streets of “Old Princeton” in