In the early days of Old Princeton, mostly barns, horse sheds and outbuildings for Water Street businesses and residents lined the 500 block south of
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YAHR, WARNKE LUMBER YARDS
Because Princeton did not have a newspaper until it was nearly 20 years old, local historians have difficulty tracing the community’s development between 1849, when
LOTS O’ HISTORY | NEWER BUILDINGS 1965-2010
My goal was to complete the Lots O’ History series tracing the origins and occupants of commercial buildings in Princeton from 1850-1990 by the end
LOTS O’ HISTORY | KRIER’S BEER DEPOT
Days before selling the Princeton Bottling Works factory on Short Street in January 1949, Herb Krier finished a concrete-block building in southeast Princeton for the
LOTS O’ HISTORY | LIKE-NU DRY CLEANING
Hugo Kielsmeier, owner of a cheese factory in Kingston, purchased the Green Lake-Lawsonia-Princeton milk route of Edward Bartel, my grandfather, doing business as Spring Valley
LOTS O’ HISTORY | NYA BUILDING
We can trace the origins of two buildings in Princeton to New Deal programs designed to help put America back to work during the Great