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
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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
THE PRINCETON MESSIAH
On Christmas Eve 1890, just nine days after reservation police killed the famous Sioux chief Sitting Bull and five days before the U.S. Army’s Seventh