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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
NEW VILLAGE, 56.6 miles (370 alt., 373 pop.), is an industrial frontier settled in 1899 to house workers at the then projected Edison Cement
plant. Left of the settlement is the plant quarry, a deep cut in the striated
brown-gray earth. Little dump cars burrow in and out of the pit on company trackage with limestone rocks for the big crushers.
A stretch of road at 57.6 miles is introduced by a sign announcing that
this was the first section of concrete highway built in New Jersey. The
construction dates back to 1912, and does not seem to have been repaired
much since. Cement dominates this neck of the Delaware country, only 12
miles south of Portland, Pa. At odd intervals mounds of earth along the
roadside reveal the grass-grown brick interiors of old limekilns.
With Scotts Mt. to the east the highway between here and Phillipsburg
is straight as a ruler, and the views north of the mountains are very
striking.
At 61.3 miles is the big INGERSOLL-RAND PLANT (L), manufacturing
jack-hammers and pneumatic tools. The plant, housed in 30 buildings
with 1,250,000 feet of floor space, employs 3,000 workers. Just ahead, over
a high ridge (L), are the workers' homes of INGERSOLL HEIGHTS, a
flat line of pillbox houses forming first notices of the nearness of Phillipsburg.
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