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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
CRAFTSMAN FARM (R), former country home of Gustave Stickley, designer of modern utilitarian furniture. Fieldstone and native timbers were
used in the construction of house, silo, barns, stables, and sheds.
At 21.7 miles is the junction with an improved road.
Right on this road for 100 yards and R. up a long hill to (L) the RANDOLPH
QUAKER MEETING House, 0.4 mile (key available at Cooper homestead, across the
road). It stands on top of the appropriately named Mount Pleasant Hill, commanding a fine view of the surrounding hills and valleys, locus of many iron pits that
once supplied the Dover furnaces. The church is a square structure, built in 1758
of hand-hewn timbers without nails; the door latches and blinds are also wooden.
Within are the old time hanging partitions to separate men and women; a difficult
stairway leads to a dark gallery in the front of which slaves were permitted to sit.
Most of the settlers who attended services here moved westward in the 1820's. The
church and cemetery are now in charge of a board of trustees.
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