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South Plainfield History
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South Plainfield
Richard F. Veit
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South Plainfield's rich and varied history mirrors that of New Jersey as a whole. Early on, Native Americans first recognized the potential of the area and called it home. Later, in the 166 0s, Baptists from New England, Scottish Quakers, and Dutch settlers erected mills and trans |
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South Plainfield in the 20th Century
Richard Veit
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Located in northern Middlesex County, South Plainfield has a rich and fascinating history. It was first settled by the Lenape and later by immigrants from Scotland, England, and the Netherlands. Mills were built, and by the 18th century, it was home to numerous farms and two hamle |
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**Please note there are many other local South Plainfield books in our collection. If you are interested, you can search our catalog for "South Plainfield" and then limit your search results (on the lefthand side) to "Items owned by South Plainfield" (results will show up with a green shaded background). You can also ask staff for assitance in person or via phone or email**
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NJ History and Anecdotes
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Envisioning New Jersey: An Illustrated History of the Garden State
Maxine N Lurie
Format: Print book
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See New Jersey history as you read about it! Envisioning New Jersey brings together 650 spectacular images that illuminate the course of the state's history, from prehistoric times to the present. Readers may think they know New Jersey's history - the state's increasing div |
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Art of the State: New Jersey
John Gilman - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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The Garden State-home to the prized beefsteak tomato-finally gets the respect it deserves in this unique celebration of New Jersey's people, places, and past. From Thomas Alva Edison and Woodrow Wilson to Frank Sinatra and Bruce Springsteen, from Princeton University's ivy-covered... |
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New Jersey: A Guide to the State
Barbara Westergaard - Rutgers University Press; 3 edition
Format: Paperback
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'Explores the nooks and crannies of New Jersey in the style of the famous Michelin guides, and is aimed at satisfying everyone from the couch potato with a penchant for state history to the intrepid traveler.' -Trenton Times 'Highly accurate descriptions of more than 200 towns,... |
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New Jersey State Parks: History and Facts
Kevin Woyce - Createspace
Format: Paperback
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Some of New Jersey's most exciting history can be found in our more than two dozen state parks. Names such as Wawayanda and Hopatcong remind us of the Lenape, or "Original People." Historic battlefields recall New Jersey's perilous years as "the Crossroads of the American... |
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It Happened in New Jersey (It Happened In Series)
Fran Capo - TwoDot; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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It Happened in New Jersey features 30 fascinating events from the Garden State's remarkable and unusual history. Learn the truth behind the Hindenburg disaster; America's first real baseball game; Aaron Burr's and Alexander Hamilton's infamous duel; how drive-in movies,... |
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Jerseyana: Underside NJ History
Marc Mappen - Rutgers University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This book is a collection of columns on New Jersey history that originally appeared in the New Jersey Weekly section of the New York Times. A lot of local history is written with deep respect and piety for the past. Not so here. The essays in this book look at New Jersey history form the underside.
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New Jersey in History: Fighting to Be Heard
Thomas P. Farner - Down The Shore Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Covers witch trials in Mount Holly, the Gloucester County Tea Party, the Barnegat Light massacre, the 1888 blizzard, and the crash of the Hindenburg at Lakehurst |
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New Jersey Firsts: The Famous, Infamous, and Quirky of the Garden State
Harry Armstrong - Camino Books
Format: Paperback
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What do salt water taffy, guide dogs for the blind, and golf tees have in common? They all got their start in New Jersey, of course! Now you can learn about the origins of these and hundreds of other products, events, and inventions in this entertaining, informative look at a wide spectrum... |
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Underground Railroad in New York and New Jersey (The Underground Railroad)
William J. Switala - Stackpole Books
Format: Paperback
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Maps of the major escape routesIdentifies houses and sites where slaves found refugeChapter on Canada discusses the final destinationTells the story of the network that guided escaped slaves to freedom, its operation, its important figures, and its specific history in New York and New Jersey.... |
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Digging New Jersey's Past: Historical Archaeology in the Garden State
Richard Veit - Rutgers University Press
Format: Paperback
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When people think of archaeology, they commonly think of unearthing the remains of ancient civilizations in Egypt, Greece, Rome, Central or South America. But some fascinating history can be found in your own New Jersey backyard -- if you know where to look. Richard Veit takes readers... |
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Rutgers: A 250th Anniversary Portrait
Nita Congress - Third Millennium Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Received the 2016 Book Gold for the Circle of Excellence Awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of EducationIn 2016, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, will mark its 250th anniversary. Chartered in 1766 as the all-male Queen's College in New Brunswick, New Jersey,... |
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Weird N.J.: Your Travel Guide to New Jersey's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
Mark Sceurman - Barnes & Noble; First edition. edition
Format: Hardcover
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Oh sure, Texas is bigger and California is cooler, but for sheer, out-and-out weirdness, no state even comes close to New Jersey. You probably know of the infamous Jersey Devil, but have you heard of the Matawan Man Eater or the Hoboken Monkey-Man? Maybe you'd like to cruise down haunted... |
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Spooky NJ
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Ghosthunting New Jersey
L'Aura Hladik
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Author L'Aura Hladik visits 34 legendary haunted places across the Garden State, all of which are open to the public -- so you can test your own ghosthunting skills, if you dare.Join L'Aura as she personally visits each site, snooping around eerie rooms and dark |
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Spooky New Jersey: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
S. E. Schlosser - Globe Pequot; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for thirty creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences from times past. Set deep in the Pinelands and Ramapo Mountains, along the Atlantic coast, and in historic towns like Burlington... |
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Haunted New Jersey: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Garden State
Patricia A. Martinelli - Stackpole Books
Format: Paperback
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A fun look at unexplained phenomena in New Jersey, featuring information on ghost tours in the state.Featuring stories about: The Jersey Devil UFOs in New Jersey? The Confederate Ghosts of Finn's Point The Woman in White Water-Dwelling Monsters Pirates and their Treasures Dozens of other... |
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Folklore of the New Jersey Shore: History, the Supernatural, and Beyond
Karen E. Timper - Schiffer Publishing
Format: Paperback
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"Extending along the eastern coast of the state, the Jersey Shore is filled with folklore and strange happenings. Discover how historical events here may have given birth to legend. Read about German U-boats sneaking past Sandy Hook in shallow water defying commonsense. Drive down... |
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Nature in NJ
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Birds of New Jersey Field Guide
Stan Tekiela
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Make bird watching in New Jersey even more enjoyable! With Stan Tekiela's famous field guide, bird identification is simple and informative. There's no need to look through dozens of photos of birds that don't live in your area. This book features 122 species of New Jer |
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New Jersey Wildlife Viewing Guide
Laurie Pettigrew - Falcon; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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New Jersey's diverse habitat is home to more than 800 species of wildlife, ranging from black bears to treefrogs. This handy guidebook identifies 85 of the state's best wildlife viewing sites in some of the most unique natural areas in New Jersey. Especially featured are wildlife... |
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Gardens of the Garden State
Nancy Berner - The Monacelli Press
Format: Hardcover
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A glorious photographic tour of the public and private gardens of New Jersey - from historic formal gardens of former estates, to suburb gardens, horticulturists' havens, and fresh takes on front yards. The most densely populated state in the nation and one of the original thirteen,... |
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Outdoor Adventures in NJ
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Wild New Jersey: Nature Adventures in the Garden State
David Wheeler - Rivergate Books
Format: Paperback
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The fastest animal on earth dive-bombs him from the skies. A young black bear bounds up a mountain trail a few yards away. Poisonous snakes swirl at his feet. A thousand bats careen past his head in a pitch-black roost. Pods of dolphins swim right past him by the scores. Who? Experienced... |
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Road Biking New Jersey: A Guide to the State's Best Bike Rides (Road Biking Series)
Thomas Hammell - Falcon; First edition
Format: Paperback
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As the locals know best, New Jersey is a land of natural and cultural splendors—and it is a bicyclist’s paradise. Road Biking New Jersey provides a personal tour of all the beauty and diversity the Garden State has to offer. From the rural hills by High Point and the Hudson... |
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Discovering Princeton: A Photographic Guide with Five Walking Tours
WIEBKE MARTENS - Schiffer
Format: Paperback
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This photographic guide features five fully illustrated walking tours of the charming New Jersey town with seventeenth-century roots and the renowned university at its core. Explore the heart of Princeton University as well as its more modern sections; downtown Princeton, including some... |
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Women in NJ History
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More than Petticoats: Remarkable New Jersey Women (More than Petticoats Series)
Lynn Wenzel - TwoDot; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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More than Petticoats: Remarkable New Jersey Women features 12 exceptional women born prior to 1900. Portraits include Alice Huyler Ramsey, the first woman to drive across America; Hannah Silverman, a labor activist during the Paterson silk strikes who fought fearlessly for better working... |
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Womens Place in New Jersey History
Deborah Marquis Kelly - Preservation Partners
Format: Paperback
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Intended to help a wide audience of teachers and students, historic site managers, historic preservation administrators and commissioners, government agencies and other members of the general public to learn abour New Jerseys womens historic sites. |
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Native NJ Biographies
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Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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"Writing about yourself is a funny business ... But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this." - Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band... |
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Chris Christie: The Inside Story of His Rise to Power
Bob Ingle - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has become a national Republican Party figure, famous for his blunt public statements, his willingness to confront powerful special interests, and his determination to change the ingrown, corrupt, backroom political culture of New Jersey. In just two years... |
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United
Cory Booker - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER A passionate new voice in American politics, United States Senator Cory Booker makes the case that the virtues of empathy, responsibility, and action must guide our nation toward a brighter future. Raised in northern New Jersey, Cory Booker went to Stanford... |
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James Gandolfini: The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano
Dan Bischoff - St. Martin's Press, 2014.
Format: Print book
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James Gandolfini: The Real Life of the Man Who Made Tony Soprano is the first biography of the actor who died, in June 2013 at age 51, widely recognized as one of the best--and most defining--actors of his generation. The book is informed by fresh interviews with Sopranos actors, the star's... |
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Tramps Like Us: A Surburban Confession
Kristen Buckley - Cyan Communications
Format: Hardcover
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New Jersey native Kristen Buckley travels through a series of catastrophic detours she calls childhood - one that was anything but normal. Set adrift after her parents divorce, Buckley embarks upon an emotional odyssey through the eerie underworld of northern New Jersey, where perverted... |
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Turning the tables : from housewife to inmate and back again
Teresa Giudice - Gallery Books
Format: Print book
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The star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey and three-time New York Times bestselling author offers a behind-the-scenes look at life in prison, her marriage, her rise to fame, the importance of her family, and the reality TV franchise that made her a household name in her explosive... |
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NJ at War
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New Brunswick and the Civil War:: The Brunswick Boys in the Great Rebellion
Joanne Hamilton Rajoppi - The History Press
Format: Paperback
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At the beginning of the Civil War, New Brunswick was positioned at the transportation and manufacturing hub of New Jersey. Many of the city's young men exchanged manufacturing equipment for rifles, and those whom they left behind witnessed the war through letters from their sons, brothers... |
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Marching Home: To War and Back with the Men of One AmericanTown
Kevin Coyne - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Follows the experiences of six World War II soldiers--all from the town of Freehold, New Jersey--in the Army, Navy, and Air Corps, from the African-American soldier who endured a segregated army and race riots back home to the sailor who struggled to adapt to life as a post-war police officer.... |
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New Jerseyans in the Civil War: For Union and Liberty (Rivergate Books)
William J. Jackson - Rutgers University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"A holistic account of New Jersey's role in the Civil War, throwing light on the state's social divisions before and during the conflict . . . New Jerseyans may have been divided about the great issues of the Civil War, but historians should decidedly appreciate this useful... |
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True Crime in NJ
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Garden State Gangland: The Rise of the Mob in New Jersey
Scott M Deitche - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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The Mafia in the United States might be a shadow of its former self, but in the New York/New Jersey metro area, there are still wiseguys and wannabes working scams, extorting businesses, running gambling, selling drugs, and branching out into white collar crimes. And they are continuing... |
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Notorious New Jersey: 100 True Tales of Murders and Mobsters, Scandals and Scoundrels
Jon Blackwell - Rutgers University Press
Format: Paperback
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Notorious New Jersey is the definitive guide to murder, mayhem, the mob, and corruption in the Garden State. With tabloid punch, Jon Blackwell tells riveting accounts of Alexander Hamilton falling mortally wounded on the dueling grounds of Weehawken; Dutch Schultz getting pumped full of lead... |
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Cemetery John: The Undiscovered Mastermind Behind the Lindbergh Kidnapping
Robert Zorn - Overlook Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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For seventy-five years, the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's infant son has gone unsolved. Evidence, opinion, and logic have discredited the notion that Bruno Richard Hauptmann --electrocuted in 1936 --acted alone. In this meticulous and authoritative account of the crime,... |
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Railroads in NJ
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Iron Rails in the Garden State: Tales of New Jersey Railroading
Anthony J. Bianculli
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Iron Rails in the Garden State is a sampler of unique and fascinating stories about railroading in New Jersey, culled from archives and independent research. It is a collection of historical vignettes, and because it is not tied to a particular time or railroad line, Anthony J. |
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The Lehigh Valley Railroad across New Jersey
Ralph A. Heiss
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Constructed as the Easton and Amboy Railroad and opened by 1875, the Lehigh Valley Railroad was instrumental in developing the commerce and communities of central New Jersey through which it once ran. Originally built to haul unending trains of "black diamonds" from Penn |
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