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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
DOVER, 35.2 miles (560 alt., 10,031 pop.), sometimes called the "Pittsburgh of New Jersey," has its industrial heart placed well to the left of
the highway. DOVER SPEEDWAY (L), a shooting gallery (R) and a road-side hot-dog stand built in the shape of a castle (L) introduce the town's
eastern outskirts. Formerly an important port on the old Morris Canal,
Dover is the shipping center of an iron-ore area that at one time made
mining one of New Jersey's principal industries. The town has a MUNICIPAL FIELD (R) for athletics, and its MUNICIPAL PARK (L) is the scene
of an annual North Jersey Fly Cast Meet, at which fishermen from all
over the State gather on the grass to cast for the dry distance record.
MEMORIAL PARK (L), a large greensward, serves as a front lawn for the
mayor's house.
MINE HILL, 37.6 miles (860 alt., 1,100 pop.), is built along the slope of a steep hill. Most of its inhabitants work in the Scrub Oak mine (see
below).
At 37.9 miles is the junction with a tarred and graveled road.
Right on this road to the Alan Wood Co.'s SCRUB OAK MINE, 0.6 mile, One-story
clapboarded company houses built on identical specifications, each in its allotted
surveyed space, each fronted by a small square of lawn, line the single street
leading to the mine. The Scrub Oak was founded in 1856 and today, after a
period of inactivity ended by the threat of a new World War, is once more the
largest operating iron mine in the State, with an estimated annual output of about
600,000 tons of low-grade ore. Byproducts – crushed stone, sand, and poultry grit –
are sold locally and shipped throughout the State. The Scrub Oak employs about
400 workers of many nationalities.
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