Emerson's History

Join us on a tour of Emerson's past. What did Main Street look like 100 years ago? What was it like growing up here in the 19th Century? Mr. Kenneth Hoffman, a lifetime resident of Emerson and former Historic Preservation Commission member, has spent many hours researching our past and has shared the results of his studies with us.

The Historic Preservation Commission released a short history of the Borough of Emerson. Please click on this link to learn more about Emerson's history.

For a first-person memoir of what it was like to grow up on an Emerson farm in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, please click here.