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Basic Resources for Hunterdon County

June 17, 2010 By Marfy Goodspeed in Bibliographies

What follows is a list of the more commonly used sources for Hunterdon history and genealogy. This is in addition to archival material to be found in the Hunterdon County Clerk’s Office and the Hunterdon Surrogate’s Court.

Many of these books and pamphlets are out of print and can only be found in libraries. You might find some of them on Google Books, but so far very few have gone online. Some of the Hunterdon sources can be purchased from the Hunterdon County Historical Society. The Hunterdon County Library has a very good list of sources. Use the link to the Library.

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Old-Time Sawmills Were a Joy to Watch

June 5, 2010 By Marfy Goodspeed in Croton, E. T. Bush, Hockenbury Tags: farming, mills

Mention of Newly-cut Whiteoak Lumber Gives One an Appetite

Some Local Sawmill History

by Egbert T. Bush, Stockton, N.J.

Hunterdon County Democrat, October 17, 1929

If the boy has ever lovingly watched the operation of one of the original sawmills, the old man’s memory will often go fondly back to those boyhood days. Whether they were or were not “the good old days” of which we hear so much, makes no difference at all. They were the days in which sawmills along country roads were almost as common as filling stations are today. And how much more interesting they were, and how much sweeter smelling!

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Some Delaware Township Sawmills

June 5, 2010 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Twp Tags: mills

published in The Bridge in 2002

Egbert T. Bush, who wrote many articles on Hunterdon history, wrote in 1929 that at one time, “sawmills along country roads were almost as common as filling stations.”