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.