Excerpt from Centennial Celebration by the Annin Family at the Old Stone House: In Somerset County, N. J., August 15, 1866 It was in the summer of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and in one of the central counties of New Jersey, that there occurred a Centennial Celebration, of a character rare in this young country of ours, full as it is of change and movement. The scene of this celebration was an old Stone House, some fifty feet in front, by forty in depth, with substantial walls, wide ball, and large open stairway. It stands, embowered in trees, in one of the prettiest little valleys of the State, through which flows a small stream, a branch of the headwaters of the Passaic. The country around it, pleasing in its variety of elevations and depressions, is in part fertile and well cultivated, giving evidence of industry and thrift; in part rugged and rocky, unfruitful save in shrub and bush and brier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.