Major Historical Moment Happens in Bridgewater

It's an unlikely place that I am sure most of you pass almost everyday.

It seems like just another roundabout, another traffic circle surrounded by stores and a few strip malls, but it was right at the Somerville circle where history was made.

Flash back to July 2, 1921, the official end of America's involment in World War I. Standing right in front of where P.C. Richards now stands, was an estate owned by Senator Joseph Frelinghuysen.

"The estate hasn't been standing for at least 25 years or so, since the construction of the circle," said 86-year-old D. Strattford of the Somerset Historical Society.

According to "New Jersey Curiosities" by Peter Genovese, President Warren Harding was in Raritan on this date to play a few rounds of golf. He played two rounds of golf that day, one at the Somerset Hills Country Club and another at the .

Senator Hale Kellog, a messenger from Washington, D.C., arrived in Raritan with an important document for the President to sign.

According to the book, in between rounds, Harding signed a joint congressional resolution, the Knox-Porter Resolution, at the Frelinghuysen country estate to officially ended World War I.

The estate is now gone, and in its place is a plaque, surrounded by sprawling strip malls and traffic.

But that little bit of history lives on in our bustling and sprawling town.