Introducing the library's online local history collection, including digitized pamphlets, clippings, original written histories, maps and published works. These materials and more are also available in print format at the library.

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Mountainside History

• Entering Mountainside, 1895-1970
• Down Memory Lane, A Walking Tour of Mountainside, 1920's
• Historic Sites Inventory, 1980
• Landmark Inventory, 1976
• NY Times, 1/9/00: If You're Thinking of Living in Mountainside; A Rural Borough of Single-Family Homes
• NY Times, 4/3/88: If You're Thinking of Living in Mountainside
• Courier-News, 12/13/87: Community Profile

Historic Photographs

• Local Newspaper Archive (searchable from within the library only)
• (Funded by grants from the Union County Division of Cultural and Heritage Affairs & the Watts Mountainside Community Foundation)
• Mountainside Echo (1964-2009)   (Note:  Accessible from within the library only.)

Hetfield House

• Hetfield House Brochure
• National Register of Historic Places
• Annual Report, 1986
• Mountainside Echo, 7/3/85: Moving the House
• Mountainside Historic Preservation Committee
• Moving the house - youtube video
• Newark Star-Ledger, 10/24/91: This Old House is Historians' Delight

Local Maps

• The Olde Towne, 1740-1800
• Watchung Reservation, Trails Map

Deserted Village/Feltville

• The Deserted Village, 1947
• The Deserted Village and the Blue Brook Valley, 1964
• History of David Felt and Stationer's Hall Press
• U.S. Census, Feltville, c. 1850