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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
The New York State Line is crossed 0.7 miles south of Suffern, N. Y.
few yards south of the State Line US 202 turns R. at the junction with
a macadam road, the Franklin Turnpike.
Left here, on the Franklin Turnpike, past the SUFFERN Boys' CAMP ACADEMY
and the AMERICAN BRAKEBLOK PLANT (R), to the WINTER HOUSE, 0.7 miles
(R), a two-story brown-shingled old Dutch dwelling believed by many local residents to be "the house with nobody in it" of which Joyce Kilmer wrote. If it is
really the "tragic house, its shingles broken and black," Repeal has peopled it and
put it in repair; today it is a wayside restaurant and bar. This 150-year-old place by
the Erie tracks is a fine example of gambrel-roof Dutch Colonial architecture.
The Franklin Turnpike turns R. and at 0.8 miles is the business center of MAHWAH (Indian, beautiful), consisting of several stores, a post office, and an Erie R.R.
station. Mahwah residents assert that there is no such place as Mahwah; it has
neither fixed limits nor a known population.
JOYCE KILMER'S WHITE COTTAGE (private) sits on top a steep hill in Mahwah,
SW. cor. Airmount and Armour Rds. Flanked by birch and elm and surrounded by
a rocky garden, the white-shingled, two-story house looks far down into the Ramapo valley. It is here, the local story runs, that Kilmer (1886-1918) wrote Trees,
though other communities have also claimed the honor.
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