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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
A garbage dump at 23.8 miles (R) introduces the southeastern outskirts
of BUTLER (580 alt., 3,420 pop.), itself an attractive little borough
spread out (R) over rolling wooded country. The community was founded
in 1695; among its residents are descendants of Hessians who quit King
George's service to remain in America after the Revolution had succeeded.
Butler has a Franciscan monastery at ST. ANTHONY'S R. C. CHURCH. A
rubber factory employs many of the town's workers.
Hemlock glens drop away from the road at odd intervals. At 24.4 miles
is a sign warning that the private property on a wooded embankment (R)
the YUNGBORN NUDIST CAMP conducted by Dr. B. Lust.
The road reaches a summit in the hilly country and for half a mile holds
to a rolling plateau of rock-strewn pasture land partitioned by wood
fences.
State 23 crosses the Pequannock River and the New York, Susquehanna
and Western R.R. at 26.3 m., narrowing to run between the parallel Pequannock (L) and a shale escarpment (R). This is a region of small lakes
off the main highway, exploited by real-estate development companies as
"The Idyl A While of the East."
At 27.9 miles is the INTAKE HOUSE (R), a yellow frame hotel whose
name has nothing to do with its business. Standing at the southern entrance to the Pequannock watershed, it is named for the MACOPIN INTAKE
at 28.2 miles (L). The intake, sometimes called the Newark or Pequannock
Reservoir, serves the city of Newark; a wide metal-bound oaken pipeline,
50 years old, runs along the highway in the declivity to the L., spouting
high, needle-thin streams of water from occasional leaks.
Bald rocks with a fuzzy overgrowth of trees and shrubbery – much like
a two weeks' crop of hair on a shaved head – dominate the birch-lined
highway. State 23 winds across the Pequannock River frequently between
here and Stockholm. Down a long, right-winding bend are clumps of
small Scotch pine, planted to hold back water for the reservoir.
CHARLOTTEBURG, 29.8 miles (750 alt., 22 pop.), requires keen eyes
if the motorist's car is a fast one. It is a tiny settlement of scattered frame
homes on the southern edge of the lake district. There was once an iron
mine here, part of the Ringwood properties.
At 31.3 miles is the junction with a macadam road (see Tour 9A).
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