Watchung was established as borough in 1926, but has history that goes way back - back to the 1800s, even before the Revolutionary War!
Since this site is about Watchung history, there are pages for places have been here for enough years to qualify are history and are still here. You can visit them, like God’s Acre cemetery with graves from the 1800’s (before we were Watchung. )
Some places are physically still here, but we remember that way they were, different in name or different in function, like the lakes that were used for ice harvesting, then a beach club and now as the center of a mile-long path for walking and jogging and enjoying nature. And like the Texier Huse Museum which was origally the home of Hippolyt Texier, then the Watchung Police Department and now the Texier House Museum.
Watchung Places Past & Present
History
Places of Memory
Honeymoon Apartments
Lakes: Watchung and Best-
ice cutting, ice skating,
Watchung swim clubTake-a-Rest Tea Shop
Charles Eaton House
Grigsby Nut Kitchen (Linden Cookies)
O’Connors Beef & Ale restaurant and Butcher shop
Ray’s Sport Shop
Watchung Pharmacy
Maps
Places of Yesterday and Today
Homes - Then and Now
Physical Features
Lakes: Best and Watchung
Organizations
Borough Hall, Police, Public Works
Charles Eaton House
Schools (Bayberry Elementary, Valley View Middle, Watchung Hills Regional High School, Mount St Mary’s)
Places of Worship (Wilson Memorial Church)
Volunteer: Rescue Squad, Fire Department, Exempt Firemen’s clubhouse)
Culture: Texier House Museum, Watchung Arts Center
Watchung branch of the Somerset County Library System
Gray’s Florist
Watchung Square Mall (was Lockheed Martin), Blue Star Shopping, Watchung Triangle shops, Along Route 22 - see NJRoute22.com (Cinemark movie theater, where a photo reproduction ( 1 min video) of the Legend of Watchung mural that hung in the Sears now hangs), HomeSense, Sierra, Buffalo Wings)
Wine and Water (was Werner’s Lake Edge), WASU, Marino’s Trataria