Historical Outbuildings
On a sunny Sunday morning, I was a guest at an amazing Angus farm in Raritan Township. Far off the road, the property is a sprawling River-Friendly working farm with a beautiful historic stone house with several impressive stone outbuildings. The property is included in the township Historic Site Survey of the 1970s. The owners …
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I have a list of historic outbuildings in Franklin Township NJ, Hunterdon County, given to me by a generous local historian but have not had the opportunity to scout the locations for imaging all of the sites. This is due to bad weather - mostly rainy weekends! But I have recently added to my photo …
I drive along Route 31 in Hunterdon County often, daily, in fact, for many years now. Never have I noticed a spring house or any historic outbuilding along the highway. This weekend, however, my husband pointed one out to me! And several other buildings as well. I pulled up to the spot as close as …
There is a property in Raritan Township of Hunterdon County NJ that always catches my eye. Many times in all kinds of weather, I just have to stop and gaze at the beautiful barn and landscape, much to the chagrin to the motorists behind me. I noticed that there were several outbuildings hidden by trees …
I noticed my first spring house (photos above and below) in Delaware Township about 8-9 years ago. It is on a small narrow country lane, one that I drove down every day for several years on the way to work in our lab/offices in Rosemont, NJ. I never noticed it until one day there was …
Springhouses in Hunterdon County 