Qualla: Latest Stories https://qualla.com en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:46:14 GMT Qualla episodic false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Latest Stories https://qualla.com 2017 U.S. Women's Open https://qualla.com/2017-u-s-women-s-open Park Sung-hyun's stunning comeback victory at the 72nd U.S. Women's Open at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, turned a seven-stroke deficit into a historic first major title.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/2017-u-s-women-s-open-wp/dr4z-2017-u-s-women-s-open-combined.mp3 0:06 full 2024 New Jersey Earthquake https://qualla.com/2024-new-jersey-earthquake A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck rural New Jersey on April 5, 2024, rattling 42 million people across the Northeast and reminding a region that rarely thinks about seismology that the ground beneath it is anything but settled.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/2024-new-jersey-earthquake-wp/dr4z-2024-new-jersey-earthquake-combined.mp3 0:06 full Bamboo Brook Outdoor Education Center https://qualla.com/bamboo-brook-outdoor-education-center Photo credit Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0. A botanical garden and public park in Morris County, New Jersey, Bamboo Brook preserves the landscape artistry of pioneering American landscape architect Martha Brookes Hutcheson at her historic Merchiston Farm.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/bamboo-brook-outdoor-education-center-wp/dr4z-bamboo-brook-outdoor-education-center-combined.mp3 0:06 full Basking Ridge White Oak https://qualla.com/basking-ridge-white-oak For more than 600 years, a white oak in the churchyard of the Presbyterian Church in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, witnessed the Great Awakening, the American Revolution, and the march of centuries before dying quietly in 2016.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/basking-ridge-white-oak-wp/dr4z-basking-ridge-white-oak-combined.mp3 0:06 full Blairsden https://qualla.com/blairsden-house A 62,000-square-foot Gilded Age mansion in Peapack-Gladstone, New Jersey, Blairsden was built for investment banker Clinton Ledyard Blair by the architects who designed the New York Public Library.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/blairsden-house-wp/dr4z-blairsden-house-combined.mp3 0:06 full Brick Academy https://qualla.com/brick-academy Photo credit Zeete, CC BY-SA 3.0. A Federal-style schoolhouse in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, the Brick Academy educated future governors, senators, and vice presidential candidates before Princeton even had its current name.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/brick-academy-wp/dr4z-brick-academy-combined.mp3 0:06 full Columbia Trail https://qualla.com/columbia-trail Photo credit Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0. A 15.1-mile rail trail through the gorges and valleys of northwestern New Jersey, the Columbia Trail follows the path of a 19th-century iron ore railroad along the South Branch of the Raritan River.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/columbia-trail-wp/dr4z-columbia-trail-combined.mp3 0:06 full Combe Fill South Superfund Site https://qualla.com/combe-fill-south-superfund-site Photo credit Xenonts, CC BY-SA 4.0. An 80-acre landfill on the border of Chester and Washington townships in Morris County, New Jersey, Combe Fill South has been an active Superfund site since 1983, its groundwater contaminated with benzene, chloroform, and other toxic chemicals.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/combe-fill-south-superfund-site-wp/dr4z-combe-fill-south-superfund-site-combined.mp3 0:06 full Far Hills Races https://qualla.com/far-hills-races Photo credit Ekem, CC BY-SA 3.0. A century-old steeplechase in the Somerset Hills where top-tier horse racing, elaborate tailgating, and millions raised for charity converge each October.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/far-hills-races-wp/dr4z-far-hills-races-combined.mp3 0:06 full Hacklebarney State Park https://qualla.com/hacklebarney-state-park Photo credit Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0. A 978-acre gorge park along the Black River in Morris County whose name might derive from Lenape words, an iron mine foreman's nickname, or a landowner named Barney Hackle.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/hacklebarney-state-park-wp/dr4z-hacklebarney-state-park-combined.mp3 0:06 full Jacobus Vanderveer House https://qualla.com/jacobus-vanderveer-house Photo credit Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0. A Dutch-American farmhouse in Bedminster Township that served as General Henry Knox's headquarters during the Revolutionary War's second Middlebrook encampment.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/jacobus-vanderveer-house-wp/dr4z-jacobus-vanderveer-house-combined.mp3 0:06 full Jockey Hollow https://qualla.com/jockey-hollow Photo credit Lebrsm, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Continental Army's winter encampment at Jockey Hollow in 1779-1780 was worse than Valley Forge -- colder, hungrier, and largely forgotten by the nation that survived because of the soldiers who endured it.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/jockey-hollow-wp/dr4z-jockey-hollow-combined.mp3 0:06 full Ken Lockwood Gorge https://qualla.com/ken-lockwood-gorge Photo credit Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0. A 563-acre gorge along the South Branch Raritan River named for a conservationist who died on the way home from his radio show, now one of New Jersey's premier trout fishing destinations.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/ken-lockwood-gorge-wp/dr4z-ken-lockwood-gorge-combined.mp3 0:06 full Lamington Black Cemetery https://qualla.com/lamington-black-cemetery Photo credit Moeyz, CC BY-SA 3.0. A small African American cemetery in Bedminster Township where 97 known graves, many marked only by plain fieldstones, trace a community's history from enslavement through the Civil War.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/lamington-black-cemetery-wp/dr4z-lamington-black-cemetery-combined.mp3 0:06 full Leonard J. Buck Garden https://qualla.com/leonard-j-buck-garden Photo credit Dmadeo, CC BY-SA 3.0. A 33-acre rock garden in Far Hills where a geologist and a landscape architect spent decades sculpting a glacial ravine into one of America's premier naturalistic gardens, working entirely without drawings.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/leonard-j-buck-garden-wp/dr4z-leonard-j-buck-garden-combined.mp3 0:06 full LIV Golf Bedminster https://qualla.com/liv-golf-bedminster The 2022 LIV Golf event at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster became ground zero for professional golf's most bitter schism, as Saudi-backed millions lured major champions away from the PGA Tour.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/liv-golf-bedminster-wp/dr4z-liv-golf-bedminster-combined.mp3 0:06 full Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation https://qualla.com/mortimer-l-schiff-scout-reservation For nearly five decades, a 500-acre tract in the hills of Mendham, New Jersey, served as the Boy Scouts of America's national training center -- the place where American scouting learned how to be itself.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/mortimer-l-schiff-scout-reservation-wp/dr4z-mortimer-l-schiff-scout-reservation-combined.mp3 0:06 full Nathan Cooper Gristmill https://qualla.com/nathan-cooper-gristmill Photo credit Fourpenguins, CC BY-SA 3.0. A four-story fieldstone gristmill on the Black River in Chester Township, New Jersey, has been grinding grain -- or standing ready to -- since a retired Revolutionary War general rebuilt it in 1826.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/nathan-cooper-gristmill-wp/dr4z-nathan-cooper-gristmill-combined.mp3 0:06 full Natirar https://qualla.com/natirar Photo credit Ekem, CC0. A 491-acre Somerset County estate whose name spells 'Raritan' backwards has passed from a whaling heiress to the King of Morocco to a county park and luxury resort -- each owner reimagining the same rolling landscape.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/natirar-wp/dr4z-natirar-combined.mp3 0:06 full New Jersey Audubon Society https://qualla.com/new-jersey-audubon-society Photo credit Jllm06, CC BY-SA 3.0. Founded in 1897 and fiercely independent from its national namesake, New Jersey Audubon runs hawk watches, nature centers, and the World Series of Birding from its headquarters in the Somerset County hills.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/new-jersey-audubon-society-wp/dr4z-new-jersey-audubon-society-combined.mp3 0:06 full New Jersey Brigade Encampment Site https://qualla.com/new-jersey-brigade-encampment-site Photo credit Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0. In the brutal winter of 1779-80, about 1,300 soldiers of the New Jersey Brigade camped separately from the main Continental Army at Jockey Hollow -- their fireplace remains still visible in the Bernardsville woods.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/new-jersey-brigade-encampment-site-wp/dr4z-new-jersey-brigade-encampment-site-combined.mp3 0:06 full Oldwick Historic District https://qualla.com/oldwick-historic-district Photo credit Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0. A 170-acre time capsule of colonial and Victorian architecture tucked into the Hunterdon County hills, where a 1749 Lutheran church and an 1800 tavern anchor a village that has barely changed in two centuries.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/oldwick-historic-district-wp/dr4z-oldwick-historic-district-combined.mp3 0:06 full Pennsylvania Railroad 4877 https://qualla.com/pennsylvania-railroad-4877 Photo credit KevinPhalon, CC BY-SA 3.0. A GG1-class electric locomotive nicknamed 'Big Red,' built in 1939 and now cosmetically restored to its original Brunswick green livery, stands as one of the last survivors of the machine that defined American electric railroading.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/pennsylvania-railroad-4877-wp/dr4z-pennsylvania-railroad-4877-combined.mp3 0:06 full Pingry School https://qualla.com/pingry-school Founded in 1861 by a Presbyterian minister who moved to fill a gap left by a teacher gone to war, Pingry has grown from a boys' academy in Elizabeth to one of New Jersey's most acclaimed independent schools across three campuses.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/pingry-school-wp/dr4z-pingry-school-combined.mp3 0:06 full Pluckemin Continental Artillery Cantonment Site https://qualla.com/pluckemin-continental-artillery-cantonment-site Before West Point existed, General Henry Knox ran America's first military academy from a cantonment nestled against the Watchung Mountains in Pluckemin, New Jersey, during the winter of 1778-1779.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/pluckemin-continental-artillery-cantonment-site-wp/dr4z-pluckemin-continental-artillery-cantonment-site-combined.mp3 0:06 full Presbyterian Church in Basking Ridge https://qualla.com/presbyterian-church-in-basking-ridge Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. A 1717 congregation, an 1839 Greek Revival church, and the ghost of a 600-year-old white oak that once shaded French troops marching to Yorktown -- Basking Ridge's churchyard holds centuries of American history in a single acre.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/presbyterian-church-in-basking-ridge-wp/dr4z-presbyterian-church-in-basking-ridge-combined.mp3 0:06 full Round Valley Reservoir https://qualla.com/round-valley-reservoir Photo credit Kjerish, CC BY-SA 4.0. New Jersey's largest reservoir sits in a circular valley ringed by volcanic ridges, its clear blue waters hiding a drowned farming community and a grim reputation that has earned it the nickname 'the Bermuda Triangle of New Jersey.'

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/round-valley-reservoir-wp/dr4z-round-valley-reservoir-combined.mp3 0:06 full Temperance Wick https://qualla.com/temperance-wick Photo credit Edmund A. Winham & James E. Taylor, Public domain. When mutinous soldiers came for her horse during the brutal winter of 1780, Temperance Wick -- 22 years old, her father newly dead, her mother ill -- reportedly hid the animal in a bedroom of her family's farmhouse at Jockey Hollow.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/temperance-wick-wp/dr4z-temperance-wick-combined.mp3 0:06 full The Devil's Tree https://qualla.com/the-devil-s-tree Photo credit The original uploader was Daniel Case at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0. A solitary oak in a Somerset County field has accumulated more urban legends than most towns have ghost stories -- cursed ground, phantom trucks, and a past entwined with some of New Jersey's darkest history.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/the-devil-s-tree-wp/dr4z-the-devil-s-tree-combined.mp3 0:06 full Trump National Golf Club Bedminster https://qualla.com/trump-national-golf-club-bedminster Photo credit Ekem, CC BY-SA 4.0. A 36-hole private golf club on the former DeLorean estate in Somerset County that became a presidential retreat, a source of aviation restrictions, and one of the most politically charged sporting venues in the United States.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/trump-national-golf-club-bedminster-wp/dr4z-trump-national-golf-club-bedminster-combined.mp3 0:06 full USGA Museum https://qualla.com/usga-museum Photo credit Wasted Time R (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The Cooperstown of golf, tucked into the New Jersey countryside — where Bobby Jones' putter lives behind glass and the names of every U.S. champion ring an oval rotunda.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/usga-museum-wp/dr4z-usga-museum-combined.mp3 0:06 full William Hillcourt https://qualla.com/william-hillcourt The Danish-born writer who shaped a generation of American boys — Green Bar Bill spent sixty years teaching Scouts the difference between knowing the outdoors and just walking through it.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/william-hillcourt-wp/dr4z-william-hillcourt-combined.mp3 0:06 full Willowwood Arboretum https://qualla.com/willowwood-arboretum Photo credit Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0. Two bachelor brothers spent fifty years turning a New Jersey farm into one of the most quietly extraordinary plant collections in the eastern United States.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/4/z/willowwood-arboretum-wp/dr4z-willowwood-arboretum-combined.mp3 0:06 full 1903 U.S. Open (Golf) https://qualla.com/1903-u-s-open-golf The ninth U.S. Open, held at Baltusrol Golf Club in 1903, featured a dramatic playoff in a rainstorm and launched Willie Anderson's record-setting run of three consecutive titles.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/1903-u-s-open-golf-wp/dr5p-1903-u-s-open-golf-combined.mp3 0:06 full 1915 U.S. Open (Golf) https://qualla.com/1915-u-s-open-golf Amateur champion Jerome Travers conquered Baltusrol's Old Course in 1915 to win his only U.S. Open, then walked away from competitive golf forever.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/1915-u-s-open-golf-wp/dr5p-1915-u-s-open-golf-combined.mp3 0:06 full 1936 U.S. Open (Golf) https://qualla.com/1936-u-s-open-golf Tony Manero, a nervous unknown who nearly failed to qualify, stunned the golf world at Baltusrol in 1936 with the help of a famous friend and a controversial final-round pairing.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/1936-u-s-open-golf-wp/dr5p-1936-u-s-open-golf-combined.mp3 0:06 full 1951 Miami Airlines C-46 Crash https://qualla.com/1951-miami-airlines-c-46-crash A converted military transport crashed into Elizabeth, New Jersey, moments after takeoff from Newark Airport in December 1951, killing all 56 aboard and triggering a national reckoning over aviation safety.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/1951-miami-airlines-c-46-crash-wp/dr5p-1951-miami-airlines-c-46-crash-combined.mp3 0:06 full 1967 Newark Riots https://qualla.com/1967-newark-riots Four days of violence in July 1967 left 26 dead in Newark, New Jersey, exposing decades of racial injustice and accelerating the city's long decline.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/1967-newark-riots-wp/dr5p-1967-newark-riots-combined.mp3 0:06 full 1967 U.S. Open (Golf) https://qualla.com/1967-u-s-open-golf Jack Nicklaus shattered the U.S. Open scoring record at Baltusrol in 1967 with a final-round 65, while Arnold Palmer finished second for the fourth time in six years and Ben Hogan played his final major.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/1967-u-s-open-golf-wp/dr5p-1967-u-s-open-golf-combined.mp3 0:06 full 1973 Staten Island Gas Explosion https://qualla.com/1973-staten-island-gas-explosion A catastrophic 1973 explosion inside a liquefied natural gas tank in Staten Island killed 40 workers and reshaped energy storage policy across New York State.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/1973-staten-island-gas-explosion-wp/dr5p-1973-staten-island-gas-explosion-combined.mp3 0:06 full 1980 U.S. Open (Golf) https://qualla.com/1980-u-s-open-golf Jack Nicklaus silenced doubters at age 40 by setting a U.S. Open scoring record at Baltusrol, winning his fourth title in a four-day duel with Japan's Isao Aoki.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/1980-u-s-open-golf-wp/dr5p-1980-u-s-open-golf-combined.mp3 0:06 full 2005 PGA Championship https://qualla.com/2005-pga-championship Phil Mickelson won his second major title with a breathtaking flop shot on the final hole at Baltusrol, capping a rain-delayed Monday finish at the 2005 PGA Championship.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/2005-pga-championship-wp/dr5p-2005-pga-championship-combined.mp3 0:06 full AirTrain Newark https://qualla.com/airtrain-newark Photo credit Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0. Newark Airport's monorail people mover, plagued by breakdowns since it opened in 1996, is being replaced by a $3.5 billion cable-driven system expected to open in 2030.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/airtrain-newark-wp/dr5p-airtrain-newark-combined.mp3 0:06 full American Airlines Flight 6780 https://qualla.com/american-airlines-flight-6780 Photo credit Turkmenistan.airlines.frontview.arp.jpg: elfuser derivative work: Elfuser (talk), Public domain. The second of three plane crashes to strike Elizabeth, New Jersey, in less than two months, killing 30 people in January 1952 and leading to the closure of Newark Airport for nine months.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/american-airlines-flight-6780-wp/dr5p-american-airlines-flight-6780-combined.mp3 0:06 full Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge https://qualla.com/arthur-kill-vertical-lift-bridge Photo credit Jim.henderson, CC BY-SA 4.0. The world's longest vertical-lift span carries a single railroad track across the Arthur Kill between New Jersey and Staten Island, hauling garbage and freight in a role as unglamorous as it is essential.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/arthur-kill-vertical-lift-bridge-wp/dr5p-arthur-kill-vertical-lift-bridge-combined.mp3 0:06 full Atlas Model Railroad https://qualla.com/atlas-model-railroad A Czechoslovak immigrant's garage workshop in Newark became Atlas Model Railroad, the company whose inventions -- flexible track, rail joiners, pre-assembled turnouts -- transformed model railroading from craft into mass-market hobby.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/atlas-model-railroad-wp/dr5p-atlas-model-railroad-combined.mp3 0:06 full Baltusrol Golf Club https://qualla.com/baltusrol-golf-club Photo credit JazzyJoeyD, CC BY-SA 4.0. Named for a murdered farmer and built on land shaped by glaciers and ancient lava, Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey has hosted more major championships than almost any course in America.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/baltusrol-golf-club-wp/dr5p-baltusrol-golf-club-combined.mp3 0:06 full Battle of Connecticut Farms https://qualla.com/battle-of-connecticut-farms A 1780 clash in present-day Union Township, New Jersey, where outgunned militia delayed a British advance on Washington's army and a chaplain's wife became a martyr of the Revolution.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/battle-of-connecticut-farms-wp/dr5p-battle-of-connecticut-farms-combined.mp3 0:06 full Battle of Springfield https://qualla.com/battle-of-springfield The 1780 'forgotten victory' where New Jersey militia and Continentals turned back a second British assault, effectively ending the war in the northern colonies.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/battle-of-springfield-wp/dr5p-battle-of-springfield-combined.mp3 0:06 full Bayway Refinery https://qualla.com/bayway-refinery Photo credit Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0. The northernmost oil refinery on the East Coast, founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1907, where scientists created the world's first petrochemical and workers died from lead poisoning in a plant that helped win World War II.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/bayway-refinery-wp/dr5p-bayway-refinery-combined.mp3 0:06 full Bell Labs https://qualla.com/bell-labs Photo credit derivative work: MBisanz talk Bell_Labs_Holmdel,_The_Oval2.png: *derivative work: MBisanz talk Bell_Labs_Holmdel,_The_Oval.jpg: Lee Beaumont, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Murray Hill, New Jersey research campus where scientists invented the transistor, the laser, Unix, the C programming language, and earned eleven Nobel Prizes - the most prolific industrial laboratory in history.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/bell-labs-wp/dr5p-bell-labs-combined.mp3 0:06 full Boland Hall Fire https://qualla.com/boland-hall-fire A 2000 dormitory fire at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, started as a drunken prank and killed three students - transforming campus fire safety standards nationwide.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/boland-hall-fire-wp/dr5p-boland-hall-fire-combined.mp3 0:06 full Boxwood Hall https://qualla.com/boxwood-hall Photo credit Dmadeo, CC BY-SA 4.0. A 1750 Elizabeth, New Jersey mansion where three Founding Fathers lived, conspired, and fell from grace - from the president of the Continental Congress to Alexander Hamilton's teenage boarding house to a co-conspirator of Aaron Burr.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/boxwood-hall-wp/dr5p-boxwood-hall-combined.mp3 0:06 full Caldwell Parsonage https://qualla.com/caldwell-parsonage Photo credit Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. An 18th-century parsonage in Union Township, New Jersey, tied to one of the Revolution's most tragic family stories - a minister whose wife was killed by the British and who was later shot by his own side.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/caldwell-parsonage-wp/dr5p-caldwell-parsonage-combined.mp3 0:06 full Chemical Control Superfund Site https://qualla.com/chemical-control-superfund-site A hazardous waste dump on the Elizabeth River where 50,000 drums of chemicals festered until a massive fire in 1980 turned a local crisis into a national environmental emergency.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/chemical-control-superfund-site-wp/dr5p-chemical-control-superfund-site-combined.mp3 0:06 full Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church https://qualla.com/connecticut-farms-presbyterian-church Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. The oldest church in Union Township, New Jersey, burned by Hessian troops during the Revolution and rebuilt in 1782, carries the memory of Hannah Caldwell's murder and was the first church in New Jersey listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/connecticut-farms-presbyterian-church-wp/dr5p-connecticut-farms-presbyterian-church-combined.mp3 0:06 full Cora Hartshorn Arboretum and Bird Sanctuary https://qualla.com/cora-hartshorn-arboretum-and-bird-sanctuary Photo credit Tomwsulcer, CC0. A 16.5-acre woodland sanctuary in Short Hills, New Jersey, where 275-year-old tulip trees tower over trails designed by Cora Hartshorn herself, and a Stone House built from local quarry rock serves as a nature education center.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/cora-hartshorn-arboretum-and-bird-sanctuary-wp/dr5p-cora-hartshorn-arboretum-and-bird-sanctuary-combined.mp3 0:06 full Crescent Shipyard https://qualla.com/crescent-shipyard Photo credit American Society of Naval Engineers, Public domain. A Newark Bay shipyard where two British emigrants launched America's first commissioned submarine and changed naval warfare forever.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/crescent-shipyard-wp/dr5p-crescent-shipyard-combined.mp3 0:06 full Drew University https://qualla.com/drew-university Photo credit Jim.henderson, CC0. A university born from a railroad tycoon's guilt offering, set on a steamboat magnate's estate in the New Jersey woods, where a Nobel Prize would one day be won.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/drew-university-wp/dr5p-drew-university-combined.mp3 0:06 full Droescher's Mill https://qualla.com/droescher-s-mill Photo credit JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 4.0. The oldest continuously operated commercial building in New Jersey stands where Lenape trails once led to the sea, on a river that has powered industry since 1737.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/droescher-s-mill-wp/dr5p-droescher-s-mill-combined.mp3 0:06 full Edward Stratemeyer https://qualla.com/edward-stratemeyer The man behind Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and Tom Swift ran a fiction factory from Newark that sold over 500 million books - yet most readers never learned his name.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/edward-stratemeyer-wp/dr5p-edward-stratemeyer-combined.mp3 0:06 full Essex Skating Club https://qualla.com/essex-skating-club From an outdoor rink in suburban New Jersey, a figure skating club has sent athletes to the Olympics, produced national champions, and built one of America's most successful synchronized skating programs.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/essex-skating-club-wp/dr5p-essex-skating-club-combined.mp3 0:06 full Feltville Historic District https://qualla.com/feltville-historic-district Photo credit Mdalamers, CC BY-SA 3.0. A New Jersey ghost town known as the Deserted Village has been abandoned twice, haunted by legend, and revived by murals painted by a Nicaraguan sculptor who never painted anywhere else.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/feltville-historic-district-wp/dr5p-feltville-historic-district-combined.mp3 0:06 full Florham https://qualla.com/florham Photo credit Trinitarian Creek, CC BY-SA 4.0. A Gilded Age mansion named by blending two first names, designed by the architects of Penn Station, landscaped by the designer of Central Park, wired by Thomas Edison — and now a New Jersey university campus.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/florham-wp/dr5p-florham-combined.mp3 0:06 full Free Acres, New Jersey https://qualla.com/free-acres-new-jersey An Irish-born Tolstoy follower founded a utopian community in New Jersey in 1910 based on a radical land-tax philosophy — it still exists today, 85 households in the woods.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/free-acres-new-jersey-wp/dr5p-free-acres-new-jersey-combined.mp3 0:06 full Goethals Bridge https://qualla.com/goethals-bridge Photo credit Tdorante10, CC BY-SA 4.0. Named for the engineer who built the Panama Canal, the Goethals Bridge links New Jersey to Staten Island across Arthur Kill — the original stood from 1928 until its replacement opened in 2017.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/goethals-bridge-wp/dr5p-goethals-bridge-combined.mp3 0:06 full Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge https://qualla.com/great-swamp-national-wildlife-refuge Photo credit Jesper Rautell Balle, CC BY 3.0. Fifteen thousand years ago it was the floor of a glacial lake; in 1959, citizens bought it piece by piece to stop the Port Authority from building a jetport — today it shelters 244 species of birds a few miles from the New Jersey suburbs.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/great-swamp-national-wildlife-refuge-wp/dr5p-great-swamp-national-wildlife-refuge-combined.mp3 0:06 full Greenwood Gardens https://qualla.com/greenwood-gardens Photo credit Lebrsm, CC BY-SA 4.0. A hidden Italianate jewel in Short Hills, New Jersey, where a real estate auctioneer's dream estate became a sanctuary of ironwork, stone terraces, and rare artistic beauty.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/greenwood-gardens-wp/dr5p-greenwood-gardens-combined.mp3 0:06 full Houdaille Quarry https://qualla.com/houdaille-quarry Photo credit Lithium6ion at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Bisected by Interstate 78 and closed since the 1970s oil shock, this former basalt quarry in New Jersey's Watchung Mountains has become an accidental nature preserve — and home to one of the finest greenockite crystal localities in the United States.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/houdaille-quarry-wp/dr5p-houdaille-quarry-combined.mp3 0:06 full Krueger Mansion https://qualla.com/krueger-mansion Photo credit Jenn ModernWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0. A beer baron's 40-room Newark mansion that passed from Gilded Age opulence through Masonic lodge, beauty school, and decades of decay before emerging as an artisan workspace in the 21st century.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/krueger-mansion-wp/dr5p-krueger-mansion-combined.mp3 0:06 full Lake Passaic https://qualla.com/lake-passaic Photo credit New Jersey shaded relief map.png: National Atlas of the United States *derivative work: Lithium6ion, Public domain. A vanished glacial lake that once covered northern New Jersey still shapes the region's rivers, swamps, and flooding patterns 14,000 years after the ice retreated.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/lake-passaic-wp/dr5p-lake-passaic-combined.mp3 0:06 full Laurel Garden Arena https://qualla.com/laurel-garden-arena A converted Newark beer hall that became one of New Jersey's most storied boxing and wrestling venues, hosting champions from James J. Braddock to Jersey Joe Walcott before its demolition in the 1950s.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/laurel-garden-arena-wp/dr5p-laurel-garden-arena-combined.mp3 0:06 full Liberty Hall (New Jersey) https://qualla.com/liberty-hall-new-jersey Photo credit Dmadeo, CC BY-SA 4.0. A 1772 Georgian house that grew into a 50-room Victorian mansion, hosting Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and seven generations of the Livingston-Kean dynasty along the way.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/liberty-hall-new-jersey-wp/dr5p-liberty-hall-new-jersey-combined.mp3 0:06 full Linden Assembly https://qualla.com/linden-assembly Photo credit Dwight Burdette, CC BY 3.0. For 68 years, General Motors' sprawling Linden plant built everything from Buicks to Wildcat fighter planes before a white Chevrolet Blazer rolled off the line as its last vehicle in 2005.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/linden-assembly-wp/dr5p-linden-assembly-combined.mp3 0:06 full Lord Stirling Manor Site https://qualla.com/lord-stirling-manor-site Photo credit Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0. The estate of Revolutionary War general William Alexander survives as an archaeological site in Basking Ridge, its slave quarters the only known example in New Jersey and its mansion foundation topped by a 1920s mail-order house.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/lord-stirling-manor-site-wp/dr5p-lord-stirling-manor-site-combined.mp3 0:06 full Merchants and Drovers Tavern https://qualla.com/merchants-and-drovers-tavern Photo credit KForce at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. A Rahway, New Jersey tavern that grew from a late-eighteenth-century wayside stop into a four-story hotel — and survived into the present as a museum, thanks to the Rahway Historical Society's intervention just before its demolition.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/merchants-and-drovers-tavern-wp/dr5p-merchants-and-drovers-tavern-combined.mp3 0:06 full Mosque No. 25 https://qualla.com/mosque-no-25 A Newark building that began as a vaudeville theater, became the first Nation of Islam mosque in New Jersey, and witnessed moments of pivotal Black American history — including a visit from Malcolm X and the funeral of a minister mourned by thousands.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/mosque-no-25-wp/dr5p-mosque-no-25-combined.mp3 0:06 full National Airlines Flight 101 https://qualla.com/national-airlines-flight-101 Photo credit Turkmenistan.airlines.frontview.arp.jpg: elfuser derivative work: Elfuser (talk), Public domain. In the winter of 1952, three planes fell from the sky over Elizabeth, New Jersey in less than two months — a sequence of disasters that shut down Newark Airport for nine months and haunted a generation of local residents, including a young Judy Blume.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/national-airlines-flight-101-wp/dr5p-national-airlines-flight-101-combined.mp3 0:06 full Newark Abbey https://qualla.com/newark-abbey Photo credit Anupam, CC BY-SA 4.0. A Benedictine monastery in one of America's most challenged cities, where a handful of monks have spent over 150 years building schools, sheltering students, and standing firm on a hill above downtown Newark.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/newark-abbey-wp/dr5p-newark-abbey-combined.mp3 0:06 full Newark Fire Division https://qualla.com/newark-fire-division Photo credit Jim.henderson, Public domain. The second-largest municipal fire department in New Jersey, protecting a dense urban city of more than 311,000 people with 16 engine companies, 8 ladder companies, and specialized units ranging from hazmat response to high-angle rope rescue.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/newark-fire-division-wp/dr5p-newark-fire-division-combined.mp3 0:06 full Newark Light Rail https://qualla.com/newark-light-rail Photo credit Adam E. Moreira, CC BY-SA 3.0. Buried beneath Newark's streets runs a rail line born from a filled-in canal, adorned with Art Deco murals, and stitching together a city's past and present.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/newark-light-rail-wp/dr5p-newark-light-rail-combined.mp3 0:06 full Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art https://qualla.com/newark-school-of-fine-and-industrial-art Photo credit Jim.henderson, CC0. For 115 years, Newark ran a free art school that trained illustrators, sculptors, painters, and cartoonists — until a budget crisis closed its doors in 1997.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/newark-school-of-fine-and-industrial-art-wp/dr5p-newark-school-of-fine-and-industrial-art-combined.mp3 0:06 full Newark Velodrome https://qualla.com/newark-velodrome In the early 20th century, Newark was the undisputed capital of American bicycle racing — and at its heart was a wooden oval track in the Vailsburg neighborhood that drew 20,000 fans and world champions.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/newark-velodrome-wp/dr5p-newark-velodrome-combined.mp3 0:06 full Old Essex County Jail https://qualla.com/old-essex-county-jail Photo credit Hudconja, CC BY-SA 3.0. Built in 1837 by the man his peers called the 'jailer to the world,' the Old Essex County Jail stands abandoned in Newark — a crumbling Greek Revival monument to a century of American prison history.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/old-essex-county-jail-wp/dr5p-old-essex-county-jail-combined.mp3 0:06 full Orange Lawn Tennis Club https://qualla.com/orange-lawn-tennis-club Founded in 1880 in South Orange, the Orange Lawn Tennis Club helped create the United States Tennis Association, hosted the U.S. National Championship, and survived into the 21st century as one of the last grass court clubs in America.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/orange-lawn-tennis-club-wp/dr5p-orange-lawn-tennis-club-combined.mp3 0:06 full Orange Valley Social Institute https://qualla.com/orange-valley-social-institute In 1897, amid the hat factories and tenement streets of Orange Valley, New Jersey, a settlement house opened its doors — not by its board of directors, but by the workers and families it was built to serve.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/orange-valley-social-institute-wp/dr5p-orange-valley-social-institute-combined.mp3 0:06 full Plainfield Armory https://qualla.com/plainfield-armory Built in 1931 as home to Headquarters Company of the 44th Division, the Plainfield Armory is a compact Flemish bond brick building that spent decades in limbo before a 2013 sale finally ended its long wait.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/plainfield-armory-wp/dr5p-plainfield-armory-combined.mp3 0:06 full Reeves-Reed Arboretum https://qualla.com/reeves-reed-arboretum Photo credit Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0. A 13.5-acre historic estate in Summit, New Jersey, shaped by three generations of landscape visionaries including Calvert Vaux — and now Union County's only arboretum.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/reeves-reed-arboretum-wp/dr5p-reeves-reed-arboretum-combined.mp3 0:06 full Ritz Theatre & Performing Arts Center https://qualla.com/ritz-theatre-performing-arts-center Photo credit Jim.henderson, CC BY-SA 4.0. An ornate 1926 Art Deco palace in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra once performed — and where a stubborn rescue effort brought a crumbling movie house back to life.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/ritz-theatre-performing-arts-center-wp/dr5p-ritz-theatre-performing-arts-center-combined.mp3 0:06 full Seton Hall University https://qualla.com/seton-hall-university Photo credit InfoAgent (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Founded in 1856, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan university in the United States — a Catholic institution in South Orange, New Jersey that has grown from a small college into a multi-campus research university, shaped by tragedy, ambition, and a motto that means 'at whatever risk, yet go forward.'

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/seton-hall-university-wp/dr5p-seton-hall-university-combined.mp3 0:06 full Shady Rest Country Club https://qualla.com/shady-rest-country-club Photo credit Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0. Founded in 1921, Shady Rest was the first African-American country club in the United States — a sanctuary in Scotch Plains, New Jersey where golf pioneers, jazz legends, and tennis champions shaped history that the wider sporting world refused to acknowledge.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/shady-rest-country-club-wp/dr5p-shady-rest-country-club-combined.mp3 0:06 full Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey https://qualla.com/shakespeare-theatre-of-new-jersey New Jersey's only professional Shakespeare company began as a summer experiment in Cape May in 1963 and found its permanent home on the leafy campus of Drew University in Madison — where it has performed the full range of Shakespeare and other classics for more than six decades.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/shakespeare-theatre-of-new-jersey-wp/dr5p-shakespeare-theatre-of-new-jersey-combined.mp3 0:06 full Snyder Academy https://qualla.com/snyder-academy Photo credit Ivan's Illyich, CC BY-SA 4.0. A prep school in Elizabeth, New Jersey founded in 1767, where Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr studied under the same headmaster — though not at the same time — decades before one killed the other in a duel.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/snyder-academy-wp/dr5p-snyder-academy-combined.mp3 0:06 full South Mountain Reservation https://qualla.com/south-mountain-reservation Photo credit Robskind, CC BY-SA 4.0. A 2,000-acre wilderness designed by the Olmsted Brothers, tucked between two ridges of the Watchung Mountains in northern New Jersey, where Revolutionary War beacons once warned of British advances.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/south-mountain-reservation-wp/dr5p-south-mountain-reservation-combined.mp3 0:06 full Stanley Theater (Newark, New Jersey) https://qualla.com/stanley-theater-newark-new-jersey Photo credit Jim.henderson, Public domain. A 1927 atmospheric movie palace in Newark's Vailsburg neighborhood, where cloud machines once conjured indoor weather beneath a star-studded ceiling, now awaiting restoration after decades of abandonment.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/stanley-theater-newark-new-jersey-wp/dr5p-stanley-theater-newark-new-jersey-combined.mp3 0:06 full Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Newark) https://qualla.com/statue-of-martin-luther-king-jr-newark Photo credit Djflem, CC BY-SA 4.0. Two bronze statues of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stand at Newark's Essex County Government Complex, depicting the civil rights leader as a young man -- the way he looked when he visited the city.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/statue-of-martin-luther-king-jr-newark-wp/dr5p-statue-of-martin-luther-king-jr-newark-combined.mp3 0:06 full Thursday Morning Club https://qualla.com/thursday-morning-club Founded in 1896 in Madison, New Jersey, the Thursday Morning Club has spent more than 125 years evolving from a women's social organization into a community services anchor that runs childcare programs, legal aid, and workforce support.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/thursday-morning-club-wp/dr5p-thursday-morning-club-combined.mp3 0:06 full Upsala College https://qualla.com/upsala-college Photo credit ColonelHenry, CC BY-SA 3.0. A Swedish-American Lutheran college that opened in a Brooklyn church in 1893, migrated across New Jersey for a century, and closed in 1995 -- but left behind one of America's most legendary freeform radio stations.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/upsala-college-wp/dr5p-upsala-college-combined.mp3 0:06 full Washington Rock State Park https://qualla.com/washington-rock-state-park Photo credit User:Ekem, Public domain. A 52-acre state park on the first Watchung ridge in Green Brook, New Jersey, where George Washington monitored British troop movements in 1777 from a vantage point that still offers a 30-mile panorama to New York City.

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]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/r/5/p/washington-rock-state-park-wp/dr5p-washington-rock-state-park-combined.mp3 0:06 full Watchung Reservation https://qualla.com/watchung-reservation Photo credit Tomwsulcer, CC0. A 1,945-acre wilderness nestled between volcanic ridges in suburban New Jersey, where Jurassic fossils, a ghost town, hidden murals, and Cold War missile silos share space with ancient Lenape campsites.

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