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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
BUTTZVILLE, 63.9 miles (430 alt., 500 pop.), seems to have had its
appearance shaped by its name – with simple frame houses and stores,
some of them unpainted. However, a grove within its limits – ISLAND
PARK (L), a few hundred feet west of the junction with State 30 – is
known throughout the State as a fisherman's paradise. Surrounded by cool
shade trees and offering rustic tables and benches for tourists, the grove is
a special favorite with women anglers. Brown and rainbow trout abound
in Pequest River at this point.
At 66.3 miles US 46 crosses Beaver Brook and turns north from Pequest
River. The road here is a sharp cut through shale rocks on each side. To
the west are the long, rolling hills of Pennsylvania.
At 66.5 miles is the junction with a concrete paved road.
Left on this road is BELVIDERE, 1.7 miles (280 alt., 2,073 pop.), county seat of
Warren County, a hilly town at the confluence of the Delaware and the Pequest
Rivers. Worn one- and two-family frame houses are built on the narrow streets
that lead to the prosperous-looking park that is the town square. Tall old trees in
the park lend to the town an air of distinction, a rural atmosphere seldom found
near the beaten track. Belvidere is restful by nature and design. The well-to-do
farmers who come here to live have succeeded in welding together agricultural
quietude and urban comforts. Known as Greenwich-on-the-Delaware before 1775,
the present name was first used by Maj. Robert Hoops, who purchased land here
from Robert Patterson, the first settler.
Under a Pennsylvania R.R. overpass at 67.2 miles, the highway turns R.
to run parallel with the Delaware River alongside a high shale cliff in
which is cut the Pennsylvania R.R. roadbed. The area at the foot of the
cliff was covered to a depth of 7 feet during the Delaware flood of 1936.
Clean against the sky about 12 miles to the north is the rugged crest of
DELAWARE WATER GAP (see Tour 5).
At 68.1 miles is MANUNKA CHUNK JUNCTION (R), high on the
Lackawanna R.R. embankment, one of the most euphoniously named railroad junctions in America and the point at which the Pennsylvania R.R.
and Lackawanna R.R. meet to run along the same track.
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