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Free Acres is an unincorporated community located along the border of Berkeley Heights in Union County and Watchung in Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.Free Acres was created in 1910 as a social experiment by Bolton Hall, an Irish-born New York entrepreneur, reformer and follower of Leo Tolstoy. [2]
Elizabeth Wemett of the Lord family sold the property to Berkeley Heights in 1975. [ 5 ] The farmstead property, all of which is owned by the township of Berkeley Heights, includes the main farmhouse, an adjacent Victorian annex in the Carpenter Gothic style (which served as a schoolhouse in the 1870s), a stone spring house , a summer kitchen ...
Plainfield Avenue. Berkeley Heights is a township in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.Located on a ridge in northern-central New Jersey, Berkeley Heights is a commuter town of New York City in the New York metropolitan area, nestled within the Raritan Valley region and also bordering both Morris and Somerset counties in the Passaic Valley region.
The Nathaniel Smith House is located in Berkeley Heights, Union County, New Jersey, United States. The Colonial home was built c. 1740 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 28, 1989. [2] Frederick and Lois Best owned and restored the house from 1945 to 1995. [3] It remains a private home today.
Spenger's Fresh Fish Grotto is a historic building and was a seafood restaurant active from 1890 to 2018, at 1919 4th Street in Berkeley, California. The building is listed as a Berkeley Landmark since November 2, 1998. [1] A historic plaque was formally installed at the entrance to the restaurant in 2004 by Berkeley Historical Plaque Project. [2]
Haddon Salt, born October 18, 1928, in Stanfree, Derbyshire, England, emigrated with his wife and three children to California in 1964 with US$10,000. [5] " I decided to bring the business here because all the tourists told me if they had fish and chips in America like I cooked them, I'd have a great business". [6]
The adjacent main restaurant, which replaced it, once held the Guinness World Record for the largest fish and chip shop in the world, seating 250 people and serving nearly a million customers a year. Harry Corbett of Sooty fame was a nephew of Harry Ramsden's, and played the piano in his uncle's original restaurant.
The Berkeley City Council designated a three-block area as a city landmark in 2000. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In the early 1970s, a 2.2-acre (0.89 ha) area at 1900 Fourth Street within the site was paved and became a parking lot for Spenger's Fish Grotto , a restaurant that operated from 1890 to 2018. [ 5 ]