Middlesex County Supervisors voted unanimously on June 3 to approve a proclamation declaring that Hummel Field, the county owned airstrip in Topping, was officially founded on July 22, 1941.
Airport representative Jamie Barnhardt informed the board at the meeting that he was able to confirm the date through a 1941 Southside Sentinel newspaper article that stated Hummel Field was sanctioned by the state corporation commission to operate as an airport. “That makes the airport 84 years old,” said Barnhardt.
Hummel Field was founded as an official Middlesex County airport in January 1970 when Fred E. Hummel and his wife Maria Jones Hummel gave the 85 acres of land at Topping to the county and specified it be utilized as a public airport.
