Post cards from Ramsey, NJ's past.
A home sometimes referred to as the ‘American Versailles’, the Crocker-McMillin Mansion, completed in 1907, was actually modeled by architect James Brite after Bramshill House in England. The home ran with forty full time staff. It is now on the market, offered at an eye popping $33 million dollars. Considered to be part of Ramsey […] The post The Crocker-McMillin Mansion appeared first on Ramsey…
Finch Park didn’t exist back then of course, but the suggestion in the map below, is that Major General Benjamin Lincoln marched through Ramsey. This map appears in the work of historian Robert A. Selig, Ph. D. who completed a historical and architectural survey in 2006 for the New Jersey Historical Trust. His multiple reports […] The post Did Washington’s armies march by Finch Park? appeared…
While it would be years before it became its own Borough on March 10, 1908, the Bergen County Atlas of 1876 does include an inset in its map of Hohokus Township entitled ‘Ramsey’s Station’, referring to the train station built on land acquired from Peter J. Ramsey. Early landowners, the Erie Railroad lines, and early […] The post Ramsey’s Station appeared first on Ramsey History .
The view of Villani’s Restaurant in 1950 from Route 17, where patrons could enjoy “the finest food and and fountain service” either indoors or outdoors. The restaurant stood where the Howard Johnson’s used to be on Route 17, which has since been integrated into the Interstate Shopping Center. The post Villani’s Restaurant appeared first on Ramsey History .
A blast from the not so distant past, turkeys leaving town at the Ramsey Route 17 train station. The post Turkeys Grab Next Train Out appeared first on Ramsey History .
Ramsey, as the video begins, the kind of town where nothing much ever happens. I don’t know about that, but this is one of the times where Ramsey made national headlines for a famous rescue of two toddlers by a heroic Conrail train conductor on May 1st, 1989. The Conrail train was traveling eastbound thru Ramsey […] The post Rescue on the Tracks appeared first on Ramsey History .
The Ramsey Field Club, circa their championship season of 1904. The post Ramsey Baseball As It Was appeared first on Ramsey History .
This green trolley traveled between Suffern, NY and Ridgewood, NJ, crossing Main Street starting in 1908. The post The Trolley appeared first on Ramsey History .
Since the last time we saw it , the entrance to the town at Main Street and Franklin Turnpike where St. John's Epsicopal church sits now features paved roads, a street light, curbs, and a number of new trees. The post Town Entrance, circa 1930’s appeared first on Ramsey History .
In a town that counts its violent crimes in the single digits per decade, any killing is going to cause a sensation and Ramsey's had a few over its couple of hundred year history. The post The First Killing in Ramsey? appeared first on Ramsey History .