The locally famous yacht store on Route 22 in New Jersey. Over the years it has been a source of clothing, furniture and other goods.

Today in New Jersey history: October 4, 1918: The T.A. Gillespie Shell Loading Plant, located in the Morgan section of Sayreville, exploded, destroying the munitions manufacturing operation and setting off three days of detonations that destroyed more than three hundred

Today in New Jersey history: October 4, 1946 Actress Susan Sarandon was born Susan Abigail Tomalin in Queens, New York. Sarandon moved to New Jersey with her family, grew up in Edison and graduated from Edison High School. She gained her professional name through a brief

Today in New Jersey historyL October 5, 1861: Mayor Edmund T. Carpenter of Hudson City (now part of Jersey City) was accidently bayoneted five or six times as he attempted to break up a riot in the Five Corners section between local citizens and German American soldiers of the

Today in New Jersey history: October 5, 2013: The New Jersey Zombie Walk, held in Asbury Park, made the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest “undead” gathering in the world. The annual event drew 9,592 participants.

Today in New Jersey history: 1778 A British force under Colonel Patrick Ferguson entered the Mullica River and attacked the “nest of Rebel Pirates” at Chestnut Neck. The local militia retreated in face of the 800-man British force and Ferguson burned thirty ships, many of them

Today in New Jersey history: October 6, 1984: A 12,000-gallon tank of the insecticide malathion overheated at the American Cyanamid plant in Linden, releasing a toxic cloud into the air and inflicting burning eyes and nausea on more than a hundred people in a twenty-mile radius

Today in New Jersey history: October 6, 1887: Maria Jeritza was born Mitzi Jedlicka in Brunn, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Jeritza, a talented singer, studied at the local conservatory, made her operatic debut in Europe in 1910 and performed at the Metropolitan

Today in New Jersey history: October 6, 1966: Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to a crowded gymnasium at Monmouth College, West Long Branch. King said the nation had come a “long, long way” in dealing with racial injustice but cautioned there was a “long, long way to go” in

Today in New Jersey history: October 7, 1783: A majority of the members of the Continental Congress voted to leave Philadelphia and establish a new capital at Trenton, New Jersey. Unfortunately, Southern congressmen refused to agree and a two thirds majority, necessary to

Today in New Jersey history: October 7, 1934: Controversial poet and left wing social and political activist Amiri Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones in Newark. Initially a member of the “Beat Generation,” he became a supporter of Fidel Castro, later declared himself a “black

Most Americans with a casual interest in history are familiar with the Boston "tea party," wjen a group of Americans, loosely garbed as Native Americans, dumped a boatload of tea in the harbor to avoid Americans buying it and paying a British tax. Much less known is the story of

Today in New Jersey history: October 8, 1778: The Pulaski Legion, a Continental Army outfit, arrived at Little Egg Harbor to counter Colonel Patrick Ferguson’s expedition. The Legion, a combined arms infantry/cavalry unit, camped on a farm near the Quaker settlement of Middle of

Today in New Jersey history: October 8, 1810: James W. Marshall was born in Hopewell Township at the Round Mountain Farm, still known as Marshall’s Corner. In 1816, the Marshall family relocated to a house in nearby Lambertville that still stands. Marshall left New Jersey in

Henry Andrews Cotton, Supervisor of the Trenton Insane Asylum in the 1920s, thought he had the key to curing mental Illness -- surgery, starting with removal of teeth and proceeding to other internal body parts. Needless to say, many of his patients died, but he was praised by

Today in New Jersey history: October 9, 1804: A severe hurricane known as the “storm of October” struck the New Jersey coast, sinking and beaching a number of ships.

On this day in New Jersey history: October 9, 1819: Thomas Haines Dudley was born in Evesham Township. As an attorney practicing law in Camden, Dudley was one of the founders of the New Jersey Republican Party. An abolitionist, he personally raised $1,000 to ransom a Camden

A photo of the New Jersey National Guard "Hilton Medal" awarded for the 'highest score" in rifle shooting by a member of, or the entire, 5th Regiment, likely the latter.

Today in New Jersey history: October 13, 1940; A wealthy German political refugee and the widow of a famous Viennese actor drank a “terrific overdose of a sedative and clasped hands in death” in a room of the Stacey Trent hotel in Trenton, according to newspaper accounts. Side