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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 route is united with US 206 (see Tour 6) between Ross Corner
and NEWTON, 20.8 miles (670 alt., 5,401 pop.) (see Tour 6).
Between Newton and Columbia the route is State 8. The road runs SW.
from the center of Newton, up a steep hill past the old Sussex COUNTY
COURTHOUSE (R) and through an attractive residential section. Climbing
to a ridge, the concrete roadbed enters dairy-farming country.
At 21.7 miles (L) is a great pile of black stone against the slope of a hill
about 200 yards from the highway. This is the remains of an old SLATE
QUARRY, no longer worked.
At 24.3 miles is (L) the old FOUNTAIN HOUSE, a three-story red brick
structure with peaked roof and scroll decorations on the eaves, in the
middle-nineteenth-century style. A glassed-in porch and elaborate masonry
have been added in front, but the old watering trough that gave the hotel
its name is gone. For many years the Fountain House was the only place
between Newton and Blairstown where stage passengers and farmers could
get a drink; few farmers paused to refresh their horses without stopping
at the bar. Prohibition crippled the hotel, but the place has now been mod-
ernized and reopened as the Forest Inn.
FREDON, 24.6 miles (720 alt.), is a highway junction and a small white
SCHOOLHOUSE (L).
Right from Fredon on a macadamized road to SWARTSWOOD STATE PARK,
1.8 miles (see Tour 6).
At 26.2 miles is (R) the PINE RIDGE PAVILION, typical of many road-houses in this area. Here on a Saturday night the traditional country
square-dance is kept alive by a crowd of millworkers from Newton and
city dwellers from points as remote as Newark and New York. While the
factory hand and his girl are shouting, "He's down, he's up!", the local
farmer and his sons and daughters take their several ways to the street
corners and movies of Newton.
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