The Summit Free Public Library in Summit, New Jersey has free, digitized Summit historical newspapers, Summit historical minutes, and offers genealogy databases like Ancestry Library Edition, Fold3, Heritage Quest, and New Jersey Digital Highway.
Summit Daily Life Records
History
Summit Historical Minute — When Councilman Robert Rubino served as Common Council President he introduced a “Summit Historical Minute” at the beginning of each Council meeting to encourage awareness of our City’s rich history. This feature highlights people and places in Summit, researched and presented by Summit High School students and residents.
January 15, 2019 Summit’s Connection to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Great Gatsby
September 4, 2018 Summit Revolutionary War Beacon
June 6, 2018 Fountain Baptist Church Historical Marker Resolution
May 15, 2018 Summit Architecture
April 3, 2018 Township of Summit
March 20, 2018 Reeves Reed Arboretum
February 21, 2018 Summit Sports
December 19, 2017 Thomas Worthington Whittredge
December 5, 2017 Deserted Village
November 13, 2017 The Other Castle in Summit
November 1, 2017 World War I Veterans in Summit
September 19, 2017 Elwood Cornog Field House
September 5, 2017 Signers of the Constitution from Union County, New Jersey
June 20, 2017 History of the Municipal Pool
June 7, 2017 History of the Horse Trough
May 16, 2017 Summit YMCA Swim Team and the 1964 Tokyo Olmpics
April 4, 2017 Summit’s Connection to the “Crime of the Century”
April 18, 2017 Silk Production in Summit
March 7, 2017 History of Worthington Whittredge
February 14, 2017 Women in World War I
January 17, 2016 Father of Rose Greenhouses
Dec. 6, 2016 Vanderpoel Castle
Nov. 14, 2016 War Veterans – Hans Kopp and William Vito Giovannello
July 26, 2016 Summit Municipal Golf Course
May 17, 2016 Unity Club of Summit
April 5, 2016 Beacon Hill Club
March 1, 2016 Overlook Hospital
February 17, 2016 Summit Free Public Library
January 19, 2016 Summit Diner
December 15, 2015 First Woman to hold a public position in Summit
December 1, 2015 Summit and the Revolutionary War
November 15, 2015 History of the Patch of the Summit Police Department
November 15, 2015 Minibus Service in Summit
November 4, 2015 History of Martin’s Brook
November 4, 2015 Summit Becomes a City
October 6, 2015 Columbus Day
September 22, 2015 History of the Public Schools
September 5, 2015 Rev. Florence Spearing Randolph
July 7, 2015 Marjorie Cranstoun Jefferson/Summit Playhouse
Newspapers
The Summit Herald 1897-2006 –searchable database
Herald-Dispatch 2006-2007 –searchable database
Union County Local Source 2008-2018 –searchable database
Summit Modern Helps
Summit Free Public Library Databases for research
Ancestry Library Edition
Fold 3
Heritage Quest
New Jersey Digital Library
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