Nutley Historian and Educator Serves as a Model Today

Nutley historian and educator Ann Troy, was born in Port Jervis, N.Y., on March 12, 1890, the oldest of five children. Her dad, James Troy, was born in Ireland and her mom, Ella Docus, was born in Port Jervis, N.Y. Her father worked as a conductor on the Erie Railroad and his train line ran through Nutley.

Miss Troy was graduated from Trenton Normal School in 1910, and the family moved to Nutley. She then attained her master’s degree from Columbia University. In 1930, it was almost unheard of for a woman to attain a master’s degree.

Lambiase Farms

12-acre Lambiase farm considered for part of new Nutley Junior High between Bloomfield Avenue and Ridge Road

Caption: On a hilltop in Ridge Road, will all Nutley rustling below and the skyscrapers of New York forming the Eastern horizon, lies the Lambiase 12-acre farm which, along with about 2 acres of town-owned land, the Board of Education seeks to acquire as a site for the proposed Junior high school. In the photo above the farmhouse, barn and barnyard are shown. At the right of the photo, the peach orchard of several acres covers the soft-rolling hillside. Peacocks now roam at liberty under the heavily-laded trees. It is the Board's desire to have the main building where this farmhouse stands and use the sloping terrain for a play area.

Nutley Historical Society displays rare Annie Oakley memorabilia at school musical

Nutley, NJ—Nutley High School Performing Arts presents three performances of Annie Get Your Gun at Nutley High School in March.

Annie Get Your Gun is based on the life of Annie Oakley—a sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show—and her romance with fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler. When Annie’s skills prove better than Bill’s, business heats up while romance cools, until the final shoot-out ensures a finale that hits the mark.

NUTLEY SCHOOLS

ANN A. TROY

MacFarland Memorial Gift and Old Bricks Being Used for New Entrance

(August 23, 1956) -- Bricks from the old Park School and a Memorial Gift helped the Nutley Historical Society to start the final projects in the Museum Restoration program. Following a sketch by James H. Bailey, masonry work on the new front porch and steps was started this week by George Ackerman.

Iron rails and appropriate meal lamps will be installed upon completion of the masonry work. Much Nutley history will be preserved by the use of the bricks secured from the Park School built in 1894.

By John Simko, Nutley Museum Director

Town Hall is the hardest-working building around, serving three towns for more than a hundred seventy-five years in nearly a dozen diverse roles—and donning three distinct hats in the process.

The building began its life as a textile mill, part of the Duncan Essex Mills, which produced wool goods. It was built around 1840.

The mill opened in Belleville, a community created just a few years earlier when it seceded from Bloomfield. About thirty years later it was in Franklin—due to that community’s secession from Belleville in 1874. And about thirty years after that, in 1902, a vote was taken and Franklin became Nutley.

When Nutley’s Little Schoolhouse Burned Down