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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
ROSS CORNER, 16.1 miles (500 alt.), consists of two large dairy plants
on a branch of the Lackawanna R.R. and two modern service stations at
the highway intersection.
US 206 is united with State 8 (see Tour 5) between Ross Corner and
Newton.
US 206 turns sharply R., running southward through farm lands.
Clumps of trees and domelike mounds dot the landscape. The mounds
were left by the great North American glacier. Lakes of this region are
attributed to the scooping out of the soil by the ice mass.
At 20.9 miles is the junction with a macadam road.
Right on this road, swinging through hilly farm country with some exceptional
views, to PAULINS KILL LAKE, 3 miles, with boating facilities and scattered summer homes. Left at 4.4 miles at the junction with a macadam road to the junction with
a graded road at 5.1 miles R. on this road to EMMANS GROVE, 5.5 miles, part of 536-acre
SWARTSWOOD STATE PARK. Ample parking and picnicking accommodations
are provided in a grove of evergreen and deciduous trees on a point jutting into
SWARTSWOOD LAKE. Noteworthy is a large BED of JAPANESE LOTUS, one of
the few successful growths in this country. The plants are said to have been imported by a missionary.
The lake was named for Capt. Anthony Swartwout, British officer who had earned
the hatred of the Indians by his active service in the French and Indian Wars. In
1756 a party of 13 Indians came from Pennsylvania to seize Swartwout and two of
his neighbors in the thinly settled wilderness around the lake. The raiders captured
a young man, Thomas Hunt, and a Negro servant. Stealing up to the Swartwout
cabin, they shot Mrs. Swartwout as she went out to the milkhouse. Swartwout
leaped for his rifle and musket; he killed two or three Indians and wounded others
before he was taken. The Indians marched him a mile from his home, then slit his
stomach and fastened one end of his entrails to a tree. Four of his children were
slain at the spot before Swartwout, beaten and mutilated, was forced to end his life
by winding his bowels on the tree as he walked around it. The Negro, Hunt, and
two surviving children were carried away. The Negro escaped from Canada, and
Hunt was exchanged after three years for some French captives. Swarthwout's little
daughter grew up with the Indians and married a chief. The son learned of his
parentage when he reached manhood. He returned for a visit to the settlement, and
then went back to the forest to spend the rest of his life.
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