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“We are a pocket of welcoming charm,” said Kim Stever, executive director of L awrenceville Main Street.

“A place where shops and restaurants line Main Street, folks gather in the park to listen to music on summer

nights, and the smell of fresh baked goods wafts through the air. Lawrenceville is the only town along the Lawrence Hopewell Trail, so the lawn of the local ice cream parlor, the Purple Cow, is usually littered with bikes.”

“Lawrenceville features restaurants that cater to everyone’s idea of a

satisfying meal — from white tablecloths and candlelight to casual al fresco dining,” continued Ms. Stever. “It’s a service-centric community that endeavors to attract new businesses of all types that meet the needs of casual visitors and lifelong residents that understand the value of supporting local

HISTORIC MEADOWS: Now preserved open space with plenty of hiking and biking trails, Mercer Meadows Pole Farm in Lawrenceville was the site of AT&T’s International Radio Transmission Station from 1929 to 1975.

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businesses. We are the slice of nostalgia people want to experience with a heap of fun thrown in. Main Street is constantly evolving, so be on the lookout for what’s new and interesting!”

A Hidden Gem Lawrenceville is also home to many parks and recreation areas, including Mercer Meadows Pole Farm, a hidden gem located off Cold Soil Road near Terhune Orchards.

Those driving or biking by have no doubt noted the gorgeous meadows filled with trails, grasslands, wetland meadows, wildflowers, and plenty of birdwatching opportunities. What they might not know is that this beautiful 820-acre preserved area was formerly home to a major transatlantic communications hub for the United States.

According to the Lawrence Historical Society, this tract of land was selected for use as the American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) International Radio Telephone Transmission Station from 1929 through 1975.

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the technological world. In 1930, 1,500 people came to visit, including President Hoover’s son, Herbert Jr. As a result of innovations in antenna technology, smaller rhombic antennas began to be installed in 1932. These were the poles that gave the site its nickname. It continued to grow as a telecommunications hub, especially as World War II broke out in Europe. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill phoned President Franklin Roosevelt with the U.S. side of the conversation transmitted though Lawrenceville.

By 1957 the Lawrencevile site was then the largest radiotelephone station in the world. Calls had increased from 47 a day in 1929 to more than 2.5 million in 1957, and the demand for international calls continued to grow. At its highest point, in 1963, six million calls went through the station.

But with the installation of transatlantic telephone cables and the launch of communications satellites, poles started to come down in the late 1960s as circuits were discontinued. AT&T made the decision to close and demolish the Lawrenceville

Europe. But while AT&T’s North American customers could talk to other North American customers, service was not available to Europe. With the technology available at the time, the only way to solve this problem was radio: encoding the call into a radio signal and then sending it across the ocean to a receiver on the other side.

In 1928 AT&T determined that the receiving site would be near Netcong, N.J. They then needed to pick a transmitter site that was nowhere near the receiver so there would be no interference.

They also needed several hundred reasonably-priced acres of flat land that were not close to population centers, as well as a reliable source of electric power.

The site also had to be close to the main AT&T telephone trunk line that ran up and down the East Coast.

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station in 1975. All that remains now is a single 80foot pole that stands off Federal City Road.

Preserved Open Space Mercer County purchased the land in 1995, and Mercer Meadows Pole Farm is now preserved open space and mostly flat hiking trails that are also part of the 20-mile Lawrence Hopewell Trail.

The county has installed signage that tells the story of its role in telecommunications history, as well as interpretive signs, bird blinds, observation towers, and picnic tables at rest stops along the trails.

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Terhune Orchards Farm Store attracts locals doing their daily shopping as well as visitors passing through the Princeton area.

Celebrate Jersey Fresh and one of our state’s favorite fruits at the annual Just Peachy Festival at Terhune Orchards on August 5 and 6 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The weekend will be filled with plenty of activities for kids, including a ride through the orchards on tractor-drawn wagons, pony rides, face painting, games, and barnyard fun.

Enjoy live music each day, and a Summer Harvest Farm-to-Fork Tasting ($12 per person) featuring talented local chefs.

Pam’s Everything Peachy food tent will offer other tasty summer fare such as barbecued chicken, hot dogs, homemade gazpacho, salads, cider donuts, slushies, and more.

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Established in 1939, Peterson’s Nursery has developed from a roadside produce stand to a full-service garden center and landscaping company. What started with a 6-year-old child selling blackberries in front of his family home has turned into a second-generation family business located on nearly eight acres of land bordering Princeton and Lawrenceville. We still carry fresh local produce, much of which is grown on site.

Peterson’s Nursery has been at the forefront of organic gardening for decades. In the early 1980s we eliminated chemical pesticide spraying of our plant inventory and made the switch to beneficial insects, including everybody’s favorite, the ladybug. At the time the concept was virtually unheard of and

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It has now been nearly 30 years since we made the switch away from chemicals and we couldn’t be happier with the results. Our customers continually comment on the freshness of the air in our greenhouses. We have wildlife in our nursery, birds chirping, and squirrels and rabbits running around. It really feels more like a park setting than a typical garden center.

We truly are in the green industry. We feel it is our responsibility to help people make the right decisions for their gardens.

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