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. We will be posting these “minutes” here after every meeting, so stay tuned to learn interesting tidbits of Summit’s history every month.
For more information on Summit’s history, please visit the Summit Historical Society at the Carter House, 90 Butler Parkway, Summit, NJ, 07901. Or visit www.summitnjhistory.org.
- February 6, 2024 David Noel Morton
- 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
