Rock Solid History News Digest 12.03.21

This week,  learn about gingerbread houses 🏠, an old train 🚂, a seaside 1663 house 🌊, a shocking find in Wildwood 🚫, and women’s items from a lost city 💎! Happy Hanukkah!! 🔯

Traditional gingerbread houses fill museum space in Garden City
By Greg Mocker for PIX 11 News

Historic Hoboken diesel locomotive retires to Boonton
By William Westhoven for Morristown Daily Record 

This is the oldest place you can possibly go in New Jersey and its history will fascinate you
By Kristen for Only in Your State 

Beach homes evacuated after WWII era explosive found along the shore, NJ officials say
By Julia Marnin for Miami Herald

Graves of rich, powerful women found in lost city of Herodotus
By Viktoria Greenboim Rich for Haaretz (photo below courtesy of Iryna Shramko)