At 10.4 m. is the junction with a concrete bridge over POMPTON
LAKES, leading into Pompton and the borough of Pompton Lakes.
Right across the bridge and immediately R. on Perrin Ave., a macadam road, to
BIER's TRAINING CAMP, 0.3 miles, where top-rank professional boxers prepare for their
matches. The camp makes "Pompton Lakes" a newspaper date-line known by fight
fans throughout the country. It is jammed in spring and summer with tourists,
sport lovers, and angle-men on hand to watch Louis, Canzoneri, or Berg go through
their paces. Most of the Broadway visitors know the training camp only for its outdoor ring fronting the lake, its gymnasium, and its restaurant-bar. But the campsite
has other historical associations than those of this year's greatest fighter of all time.
The two-story white frame-and-stone house in which Dr. Bier and his family live
is the 200-year-old SCHUYLER MANSION, in which General Washington and his
staff attended the wedding of Peter Schuyler, Washington's aide.
Lakeside Ave. skirts the lake into the borough of POMPTON LAKES, 1 m. (200
alt., 3,500 pop.), where a Du PONT PLANT manufactures electric blasting batteries
and metallic caps.
The ESTATE OF ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE (private), writer and dog
fancier, stretches along both sides of US 202 at about 10.4 m. Terhune's
house lies on the steep lake front, almost hidden by towering shade
trees (R).
At 11.6 miles, at the junction with the Paterson-Hamburg Turnpike, US
202 turns L.
The COLFAX SCHUYLER HOUSE (R), 11.8 miles (private), has a warped
and sagging roof, crumbled brick chimney, and great sloping cellar. It was
built in 1697 by Arent Schuyler, whose descendants have occupied the
house ever since it was built. The oldest part of the house is the right wing
of the present main section, which is still in excellent repair and is in use
today. Six slim, white Doric columns support the porch roof. The entrance
has a cross-paneled "witch door" beyond which it was impossible for
witches and evil spirits to penetrate.
US 202 turns R. at 12.3 miles.
At 12.8 miles (R) are the Fox FARM (free to patrons of roadstand) and
(L) CAPTAIN MACK'S WILD ANIMAL FARM (adm. 10¢), competing zoos
with animals that range from agoutis and kinkajous to peacocks and wild-cats.
Three hundred broad acres along both sides of the macadam road at
13.2 m. are SHEFFIELD FARMS (milking parlor open). Sweet timothy and
alfalfa smells make up in bucolic atmosphere for the modern buildings
where milk is drawn from cows by machine and pumped across the road
for bottling. The luminous white milk houses are a cross between old
Dutch mill buildings and the spare, trim twentieth-century industrial architecture.
At 13.9 miles is the junction with State 23 (see Tour 9). Between this
point and Mountain View, US 202 and State 23 are united.
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