James Crawford Thom, a 19th century landscape artist and area resident, incorporated scenes from the Village of Old Bridge in several of his paintings. The East Brunswick Museum has an extensive collection of his paintings, including “Winter in Old Bridge”. Born in 1835, Thom studied at an artist colony in Perth Amboy, NJ. He moved to the Village of Old Bridge in the 1870’s and later Atlantic Highlands, NJ and died in 1898. He is buried in the nearby Chestnut Hill Cemetery.