Apr 16, 2026 | History Signs
Sep 30, 2024 | History Signs
The impressive range of white frame farm buildings; the immense barn and silo complex; the wagon houses and corn crib in the center; and the spacious farmhouse evoke Hopewell farming at its most prosperous around the turn of the 20th century. Clydesdales plowing...
Sep 30, 2024 | History Signs
Today, LHT users crossing U.S. Route 206 need to stay alert to traffic, crosswalks and stoplights. There is not much time to reflect on this unassuming intersection with Province Line Road. Stepping onto the pavement, however, is to walk onto one of the most ancient...
Sep 30, 2024 | History Signs
Here, in the heart of Hopewell’s Stony Brook valley, the soils are deep and fertile, perfect for raising crops and livestock. Following the displacement of the Native American Lenape people living here around the turn of the 18th century, European families moved on to...
Sep 30, 2024 | History Signs
The story of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) corporate campus, headquarters for the largest private educational testing organization in the world, began on a crisp autumn day in 1954. Henry Chauncey, the first president of ETS, was taking a hike with his wife...
Sep 30, 2024 | History Signs
Perhaps you noticed, the going has been a little tougher and hillier along this section of the LHT. From this point, winding eastward to the Province Line, the trail traverses the rocky southern flank of an upland landform known as the Mount Rose ridge. Named for the...
Sep 30, 2024 | History Signs
The LHT follows a segment of the former Johnson Trolley Line in Lawrenceville, and most trail users probably don’t recognize it. After all, there are no rails, no ties, cinders or grit, like with most railroads. The Johnson Trolley began operating in 1902 and in its...
Sep 30, 2024 | History Signs
The County of Mercer boasts close to a dozen parks and other recreational facilities, all geared to support the health and well-being of residents and visitors. The Lawrence Hopewell Trail wends its way through Mercer Meadows which, at more than 1,600 acres, is one of...
Sep 30, 2024 | History Signs
The background story to the road in front of you, today known as Bergen Street, is part of our region’s ongoing love-hate relationship with highways. Believe it or not, Bergen Street was planned during the late 1920s as part of Arctic Parkway, a scenic thoroughfare...
Sep 30, 2024 | History Signs
As you hike or bike the LHT alongside Province Line Road, you are following in the footsteps of Surveyor-General George Keith. For two months in the spring of 1687, Keith surveyed a line through the wilderness of colonial New Jersey in an attempt to settle a land...
