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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
PINE BROOK, 21.2 miles (200 alt., 281 pop.), is on an island-like hill
in the floodlands of the confluence of three rivers: Rockaway, Passaic, and
Whippany. Subject to chronic inundation, Pine Brook is the central point
of the Lake Whippanong Flood Control Survey Project, and is destined
to become the dam site of the Passaic Valley Watershed. A large dairy
farm is the borough's sole industrial plant.
The macadam road between Pine Brook and Parsippany is known as
Death Highway because of numerous accidents. An AUTO COASTER at
24.6 miles (R) caters to tourists who want their thrills made to order: the
sign advertising the long, rolling shoot-the-chute reads, "Miles of Smiles."
TROY MEADOWS, 24.7 miles (L), a wooded swamp with a high
growth of marsh grass, is a natural bird refuge and breeding ground, reported by the Audubon Society to be second only to Cape May in New
Jersey as a natural station for birds in seasonal migration. Some of these
migrations extend over thousands of miles; the stubbled marsh W. of Pine
Brook is a central point for flights to and from the Arctic Circle and the
Argentine.
At TROY HILLS, 25 miles, is the junction with a macadam road.
Left on this road to the TROY HILLS FAIR GROUNDS, 0.4 miles (R), where every
September the Troy Hills Grange holds horse and cattle shows attended by breeders for miles around. BEVERWYCK INN, 0.8 miles (R), is an old, two-story white frame
s for miles around. BEVERWYCK INN, 0.8 miles (R), is an old, two-story white frame
house now run as a restaurant and owned by Charles Edison, Assistant Secretary of the Navy and son of Thomas A. Edison, the inventor.
The highway west of Troy Hills climbs gradually to a summit at 26.2
miles, where it dips down beneath the south wall of PARSIPPANY RESERVOIR
(R), main storage lake of Jersey City's Rockaway River watershed.
At 26.9 miles (L), ona high hill crowned with a grove of oaks, stands
the LITTLE WHITE CHURCH, where each Sunday the Rev. S. Trevena
Jackson preaches streamlined sermons to a parish of strangers recruited
from the motor traffic of US 46 and US 202.
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