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Jersey City Free Books
NEW JERSEY
A Guide To Its Present And Past
Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the
Works Progress Administration for the State of New Jersey
American Guide Series
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
Tour 2
Perryville
PERRYVILLE, 47.5 miles (360 alt.), which consists of a single, large,
red BRICK HOUSE (L), is for sale (1939). In 1812, when the building
was being erected, news was brought of Commodore Perry's victory on
Lake Erie and the owner raised an American flag, announcing that his
house should always be called Perryville. After the opening of the Bruns-
wick Pike the house became known as Brick Tavern, a name that is still
used. Once a stopping place for drovers who came from the west with
mules and horses for the eastern market, the building has been a private
dwelling for 40 years.
- Left from Perryville on a macadam road is JUTLAND (340 alt.), known
mainly for the white frame farmhouse (L) at 0.9 miles, where New Jersey's Battle of
Jutland took place in 1926. Resisting service of a summons for cruelty to animals,
Timothy Meany, a farmer, barricaded himself in his home. After Corp. M. Daly
had been wounded in an attempt to serve the summons, State troopers stormed the
house. During the all-night battle Beatrice Meany, Timothy's sister, was killed, and
James Meany, a brother, and Trooper P. J. Smith were wounded. Three State
troopers were later convicted of manslaughter.
- Right from Perryville crossing Mulhockaway Creek to VAN SYCKLES
CORNER, 1 miles (290 alt.), a crossroads settlement of three modern houses, the
weatherbeaten frame of a former store, and the graceful stone and frame house
that was, until 1860, VAN SYCKLEs TAVERN. A cornerstone bears the date 1763.
For many years the inn was a stopping place for Philadelphians enroute to Schooley's
Mountain Springs (see Tour 10); Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, stayed
here on his frequent trips from Bordentown. The builder, who the present descendants of the Van Syckle family point out was no relative of theirs, was hanged at
High Bridge for counterfeiting Continental money during the Revolutionary War.
At 48.8 m. is the junction with a dirt road.
Left on this road to a BAPTIST CHURCH, 0.1 miles, an ivy-covered stone building
with green shutters, abandoned more than 40 years ago. The well-kept grass of the
graveyard, the large oak trees, and the modern Van Syckle tombstones behind the
church contribute to a deceptively prosperous appearance.
Westward the highway rises on a steady grade into the Musconetcong
Mts. A crest at 50.4 miles offers an unusually fine view across the valley to
the Pohatcong Mts. (R).
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