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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
At 27.1 miles are the junctions with US 202 (see Tour 4) and US 206
see Tour 6). These highways are united with US 22 for 0.5 miles.
At 27.7 miles, at a large traffic circle, US 22 bears R. US 202 and US 206
here separate (L) from US 22. At this circle is the junction with State 28
see Tour 17), which is united with US 22 between here and Phillipsburg.
At the western side of the traffic circle on the ESTATE OF JOSEPH F.
FRELINGHUYSEN (private) is (R) the large mansion in which President
Warren G. Harding signed the Knox-Porter joint resolution on July 2,
1921, terminating the state of war between Germany and the United
States, and between Austria-Hungary and the United States. A plate in the
door of one room of the spacious yellow brick and frame house commemorates the event. A painting by P. W. Muncy, hanging over the fireplace
earby, depicts the President in the act of signing. Harding, a week-end
guest, is said to have been called in from a game of golf by the arrival of
the papers from Washington. Without ceremony, he sat down before a
sunny window and signed the treaty.
West of the traffic circle the highway has a two-lane concrete roadbed
with frequent curves and grades. At 30.7 miles, across the checkered farm
lands and rolling, evergreen-dotted hills in the foreground, is seen (R)
the crescent end of the Watchung Mountains, with the tiny white spire of
Tuckemin Church in the valley formed by the break.
The highway here follows the route of the former Easton or Brunswick
Turnpike, earlier an Indian trail, over which Lafayette drove while revisiting America in 1824.
The JAPANESE GOLDFISH HATCHERY (R), 30.4 miles (open on application at office), maintains in pools and tanks from two to five million fish,
many of them rare and unusual. They are shipped to many parts of the
world.
NORTH BRANCH, 30.8 miles (70 alt., 300 pop.), on the North Branch
of the Raritan River, was laid out in 1884. The village, with neat white
houses and spreading trees, has changed little. There is still a blacksmith
shop (L) by the highway, and the tiny POST OFFICE (R) is less than 10
feet square. Fine pastures and farm land surround the town.
At 30.9 miles, in North Branch, is the junction with a dirt road.
Right on this road to the old JACOB TENEYCK HOUSE (L), 0.2 miles (private),
erected 1792 and standing among tall trees that almost conceal it from the road.
The large, substantial stone house of two stories, a fine specimen in the Colonial
style, was built by Jacob Teneyck. In the upper part of the massive front door are
two large, oval-shaped panes of glass set diagonally and resembling, when lit up at
night, huge almond eyes of an oriental giant. It is related that an old Negro, sent
here one night with eggs from a neighboring farm, took one frightened glance at
the weird sight, dropped the eggs, and ran home yelling with fright, "Ah seen de
debbil!" Forty-eight blue and white tiles illustrating Scriptural passages are set in
the long parlor fireplace.
The highway passes between varicolored fields rising to the hills (R)
and a descending slope of farm lands toward Cushetunk Mountain (L).
In the autumn, sumac and Virginia creeper add their scarlet tones to the
more sober browns and yellows of the maples, beeches, poplars, and oaks.
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