Carlos Rogers captured the interest of the Historical Society of Riverton in 2011 when he christened his inaugural bicycling competition, the Historic Riverton Criterium. The 12th Annual HRC returns Sunday, … Continue reading 12th Annual Historic Riverton Criterium, Sunday June 11th!
Underlined text in bold print links to more content. Most images enlarge with a double tap or double click. Kindly respond to the survey at the end. November 2022 Historical … Continue reading Gaslight News – November 2022
Sometimes a newly discovered piece of a puzzle leads to new insights about a familiar topic. This story illustrates how a recent find on eBay helped connect it to additional … Continue reading Program sparks new research, filling in more details to Riverton’s 1894 illuminated bike race
I publish this urgent plea to the Universe in the hope that the person who won the eBay auction in 2010 for this incredible photograph of cyclists participating in the … Continue reading Please help find the owner
by Harlan B. Radford, Jr. A Google search of “Marshall, Stone Harbor, and Early Planes” by Jeffrey Arrington of Baltimore landed him on rivertonhistory.com where he found our 2015 post, … Continue reading Early airmail in South Jersey: the story continues
All of this time secluded at home during COVID has caused a proliferation of FaceBook groups with a nostalgic look back at places and experiences of our past. One such … Continue reading Things that aren’t there anymore
Visitors here may recall that we have published local historical information about pandemic outbreaks twice before, on January 20, 2018, and January 29, 2018. The pages of hometown newspapers … Continue reading Coronavirus writes a new page of Riverton history
Probably not the best advice for someone trying to move or declutter, but we have gotten some of the best stuff that some folks would have relegated to the trash … Continue reading When in doubt… DON’T throw it out.
Hello, Everyone, If you can spare just an hour next Sunday to cover one of the seven corners during the Criterium, please contact us thru the form below. We extend a … Continue reading 9th Annual HRCriterium needs race marshals next Sunday
With a mere three weeks to go before the Historic Riverton Criterium returns to the streets of Riverton, we remind readers that a previous post explained that women cyclists first competed … Continue reading Speaking of women cyclists…
