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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
PARSIPPANY, 27 miles (300 alt., 210 pop.), is at the junction with US
202 (see Tour 4). The village lies at the southern tip of Parsippany Reservoir. The vine-run red brick PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (L) at the outskirts
dates back to 1718, when John Richards, local schoolmaster, deeded 3 1/2
acres to the township of Whippanong for a meeting house. The present
building, with Gothic windows and Gothic panels in the doors near the
pulpit, was erected 1828. Right from Cobb's Corners (local name for the
junction of the two main highways) is a long vista of the reservoir to a
horizon of blue hills beyond, with Boonton's busy streets framed in the
rocky hill to the N. A bronze tablet at Cobb's Corners (R) records the
fact that the pioneer village and forge of Old Boone Town lie submerged
6o feet in the valley inundated by metropolitan drinking water. At the
opposite corner stands a remodeled TOWNSHIP HALL effectively screened
by a service station and a grocery store on the first floor. In its chambers,
each second and fourth Tuesday of the month, the gavel comes down at
8 p.m. to open the most dramatic sessions of township committee government in Morris County, where a lone but perennial Democratic chairman
holds the fort against four equally inevitable Republicans.
A large, wire fence-enclosed estate at 27.6 miles (R) is where Mrs. Marcellus Hartley Dodge (see MADISON, Tour 10), the former Geraldine
Rockefeller, plans to build dog kennels; it was once a circus winter
quarters.
At 28.9 miles, on the crest of a stiff grade, is the junction with a tarred
and graveled road.
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