Gillette On Hillsborough

I did not originate the "On Hillsborough" blog. In the months leading up to my first post appearing here on June 7, 2007, the blog...

Hillsborough, New Jersey received its royal charter on May 31, 1771. Two hundred years later, the township residents came together came toge...

Over the years people have asked me where Anna Case - the South Branch girl who became a national sensation as an operatic soprano, concert ...

It was the morning of Friday, August 21, 1896, and Somerset County Detective George Totten had just spent his second sleepless night alone i...

A few weeks after the Belle Mead Army Service Forces Depot opened in August 1942, the Army officially announced that a second depot in Hills...

Let's begin by lamenting that the one singular iconic structure that identified historic Hillsborough Township, New Jersey was lost in a...

Located at the southern end of the historic core of Duke Farms, the stone structure known a century ago as The Lovers' Tower is still a ...

Hear the phrase "asbestos hotel" in 2021 and you might be inclined to shout, "Yikes!" But to Hillsborough Township, New ...

Two years before America was asking "who shot JR?" - the fictional millionaire oilman of TV's Dallas - Somerset County was ask...

While many features of Duke's Park - the early 20th century Hillsborough, New Jersey estate of tobacco magnate James B. Duke - are still...