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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
Left on this road is SUMMIT, 3.2 miles. (447 alt., 14,556 pop.), a bright residential
town that spreads out on the crest of FIRST WATCHUNG MT. The ridge served
in Revolutionary days as a barrier to British penetration of the hill country in western New Jersey. A bronze tablet on a boulder on Hobart Ave., between Beacon Rd.
and Morris Turnpike, marks the SITE OF OLD Sow, a small cannon now on the
grounds of the Ford Mansion in Morristown, used as an alarm gun to notify Washington of the approach of raiding parties of British troops. The KENT PLACE
SCHOOL for girls, with an enrollment of 300, occupies nine Tudor buildings spread
across 23 acres of green at Morris Ave. and Kent Place Blvd.
At 9.2 miles (R) is the CANOE BROOK COUNTRY CLUB (private
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