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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
The road turns R. here, beginning, at 35.8 miles, the long, steep, winding
pull up SCHOOLEYS MT. Halfway up the slope are clearings in the
woods through which is the view (R) of the South Branch of the Raritan
and of its watershed for many miles. Beyond the valley are lines of roll-
ing hills. A sign on the summit at 36.9 m. (R) gives the elevation as 1,073 feet.
Along the grade are the old stone huts of German settlers; springhouses
dot the roadside. Schooleys Mountain Springs, known to the Indians as a
remedy for rheumatism and skin eruptions, have been famous as a health
resort since 1770. The springs contain lime, iron, magnesia, soda and
silica.
At 38 miles is the junction with a dirt road.
Left on this road to CAMP WO-CHI-CA, 4.5 miles. The name is an abbreviation of
"workers'children's camp"; it is conducted for underprivileged children. Here funds
raised by the Daily Worker and other labor papers enable boys and girls to escape
the cities' bubbling asphalt in the summer months to play in mountain surroundings
once visited only by the Four Hundred.
Through wooded glens and along swift-running streams, the road begins the mile-long descent of Schooleys Mt. at 38.4 m. Where the forest
breaks at 39.6 miles. is the breath-taking view of MUSCONETCONG VALLEY (L). Cattle graze in the billowing green fields that rise and fall to
white homesteads and the barns of dairy, farms; the fertile green bottom
lands roll west to SCOTTS MT. (L), a shoulder of the Upper Pohatcong.
At 40.7 miles, at the crossing of Musconetcong River, the road again becomes State S24.
Right (straight ahead) on State S24 to HACKETTSTOWN, 0.4 miles (560 alt.,
3,038 pop.) (see Tour 7), where it forms a junction with US 46 (see Tour 7).
The route is abruptly L. to the southwest here on State S24 and runs
along the bank of the Musconetcong (Indian, rapidly running river).
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