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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
FRANKLIN PARK, 23.5 miles (130 alt., 225 pop.), was an early Dutch
community but is scarcely larger today than at its settlement. It has a dozen
houses, a coon-hunting headquarters, a school, and an old DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH (R). The congregation was organized in 1710, and the
Rev. Theodore Frelinghuysen, leader in the founding of Rutgers University, was pastor in 1720.
West of Franklin Park the land flattens out in a wide plateau spotted
with forest islands, but mostly given over to cultivation. Well-kept farmhouses and barns are stamped with age.
The Sand Hill region (L) with its rugged growth of forest looks much
as it did when Washington marched his troops through here.
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