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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
WHITEHOUSE, 35.1 miles (180 alt.), consists of large, neat homes
built along both sides of the highway for a mile. At 36.2 in. in WHITEHOUSE MEMORIAL PARK (L) is the stone foundation of the white-plastered tavern for which the village was named. Two inns have kept
the name.
At 36.2 miles is the junction with a macadam road.
Right on this road is OLDWICK, 3.5 m. (240 alt.), an old settlement known
as Smithfield in Colonial days and, until recent years, as New Germantown. ZION
LUTHERAN CHURCH, built 1750, is the oldest Lutheran church in continuous use
in New Jersey. It has low walls, hip roof, and small square windows high above
the ground. The interior has been considerably altered.
At 36.3 miles is the junction with a dirt road.
Left on this road through an open field to WHITEHOUSE or CUSHETUNK
LAKE, 0.2 m., part of a real estate development that collapsed with the depression.
The lake is fed by Rockaway Creek.
At 36.5 miles is CUSHETUNK MT. (L), a long, low hill with a sharp
crest, named for an Indian chief. In the early-days a German redemptioner,
Balthasar Pickel, bought the mountain and gave his own name to it. Other
Germans settled there, made the mountain a hog run, and called it Hog
Mt. On the plains at its foot were great fields of cabbages for making the
homeland dish of pork and sauerkraut.
POTTERSTOWN, 38.3 miles (260 alt.), is a farm village of half a dozen
houses (R) on a left turn of the highway. Large dairies and several
branches of Rockaway Creek almost encircle the town.
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