Thanks to a $5,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and donations to Friends of the Bernardsville Public Library, the unique items in the Local History Room are properly preserved and available for public use.īernardsville Library’s History Committee, comprised of a very diligent group of volunteers, was recently honored at the Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Commission’s awards ceremony. The vertical files contain information, articles, and clippings on local and state happenings and locations as well as biographical material. A card file containing information on local marriages, engagements, and deaths is maintained. There is also an extensive collection of postcards (circa 1905) consisting of local and state views, as well as holiday cards, the nucleus of which was the collection of Edwin S. A file of photographs of local houses, scenes, and events, old and current, is constantly being added to. If you’d like to take a look at the book, check first with the Reference Librarian and see where they catalog and store the book.The Local History Room houses bound copies of the Bernardsville News (1932 through the current year), books by local authors, minutes of local governing bodies and boards, as well as books of local interest, i.e., Somerset County, Bernards Township, Bernardsville, and other towns in the Somerset Hills, as well as parts of Morris County.

The book is a complete history of the company, the flag, the past, and the future. Everest, first to the North AND South Poles, if you remember seeing an American flag in history, it was probably an Annin flag. From Lincon’s funeral, Iwo Jima, to the World Trade Center, to the fist American flag on the Moon, first atop Mt. The 96 page color book is an incredible look back at the 175 years of New Jersey’s Annin Flag Company that has been responsible for creating almost every American flag in America’s history since 1847. which later became the Annin Flag Company, now the largest flagmaker in the world. William’s grandson Alexander Annin was the founder of Annin & Co. The Annins of what was originally Annin’s Corner later became Liberty Corner, New Jersey.

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