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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
(Suffern, N. Y.) – Pompton – Boonton – Morristown – Lambertville –
The road is paralleled at intervals in the northern section by the Lackawanna R.R., and between Copper Hill and Lambertville by the Pennsylvania R.R., and between Copper Hill and Lambertville by the Pennsylvania R.R.
Northern New Jersey, which US 202 traverses in its southwesterly ramble between the New York Line and Delaware River, is a region of heights
and rolling dips rising sharply from the generally flat land of the State.
South of Suffern, with the green and purple-shadowed Ramapos to the
north, the highway penetrates a country that has the clean, high look of
the Berkshires. For miles around, the Ramapos rim minor hills and ridges
between which narrow rivers twist their way into the cups of small mountain lakes. Old farm lands from Mahwah to Lambertville slope up to the
foothills, rising and falling with the rocky core of the country; only at
intervals do they give way to industrial encroachments. This route cuts
open a cross-section of 200 years of America. Here are spots important in
American history: the first sizable iron works built in the Colonies, which
helped turn the tide of the Revolution; concrete-buried Indian paths followed by the Continental Army under Washington; and the house where
Morse and Vail labored to bring forth the first practical magnetic telegraph.
(New Hope, Pa.) ; US 202.
New York Line to Pennsylvania Line, 81 m.
Frequent service stations and tourist homes; hotels in towns.
Well-paved roadbed, with stretches of four-lane concrete.
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