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• Newspaper Clipping - Historic Weehawken Mansion

  This unidentified and undated clipping from a newspaper shows the mansion of Archibald Gracie King, known as The Bluff. The drawing of the house is captioned Copyright by Jas L Wells, 1894. It is mounted next to a letter to the editor of the New York Herald Tribune, dated March 7, 1938 and signed by a Mrs. Vera Rourke, headlined Deserted Mansion on a Hill. The letter describes the later fate of the house.
• Solved! The Deep Mystery of Weehawken's Lost Pond

  Clipping from the Hudson Observer, July 29, 1935. Describes the search for a long lost pond in the Valley behind King's Bluff. It was found by E. Robert Grauert, son of Mayor Emile Grauert. Much is made of the younger Grauert's besting of Weehawken historian Lt. Edward Kirk in this quest.
• Archibald Gracie King Mansion - The Bluff

  Undated engraving of the mansion of A. G. King, which was located in the Bluffs section of town, named for the mansion. King was the son of James Gore King. The drawing was used in a real estate lots auction advertisement in 1894. From the collection of the Weehawken Historical Commission.
• Photograph - A Rustic Bridge

  Black and white photograph of a rustic bridge in Kings Woods, Weehawken, circa 1889, taken on an outing of members from a local camera club. This area was part of the Highwood estate. From the collection of the Weehawken Historical Commission.
• Kings Bluff

  This engraving of Kings Bluff was engraved by W.S. Barnard Sc. for the 1902 book New Jersey as a Colony and a State (opp page IV-31). The original sketch was made by Davis at an unknown date, although the farm and/or artists' retreat shown in the picture appeared on an 1841 map by Douglass. This image and the accompanying information were provided by Tom Flagg.