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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
PHILLIPSBURG, 63.7 miles (300 alt., 19,255 pop.), long ago the site of
an Indian village called Chintewink, has all the smoke and grime of a little Pittsburgh. The city is built on a series of hills dropping down to the
Delaware River. From the ridge of Ingersoll Heights its dark rooftops
stretch to the L. in solid packs; scarcely a street intersection is visible from
the heights. The WARREN FOUNDRY AND PIPE CORPORATION SHOP is
five-eighths of a mile long; iron mines are on the premises, and its manufacturing process ranges vertically from the extraction of iron ore to the
production of finished pipes. The seven-foot pipe made here, used for
carrying telephone cable under the Harlem River, is constructed with a
passageway for repairmen.
The descent to the Delaware bridge is through a well-to-do residential
section of somber Victorian dwellings set back on terraced lawns (L) well
off the steep street. They overlook the industrial heart of the town on the
Delaware 100 feet below (R) – a sharp slice of cindered earth cluttered
with flatcars and smokestacks, intersected by the long gleam of the Pennsylvania R.R. tracks on the river's banks. Across the river are the crowded
buildings of Easton, Pa.
Phillipsburg is at the junction with US 22 (see Tour 2).
At 64 m., on the DELAWARE RIVER BRIDGE (free), State 24 crosses the
Pennsylvania Line, 0.3 miles east of Easton, Pa.
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