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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
Left from Montclair on South Mountain Ave. to Union St., a macadam road; R. on Union St. to Undercliff Rd., a macadam road; R. on Undercliff Rd., up a winding course of hairpin turns, to EAGLE ROCK RESERVATION, 1.9 miles From the 664-foot elevation, it is said, is seen a greater concentration of suburban dwellings than from anywhere else in the world. The panorama stretches east from the Passaic-Hackensack valleys to Newark, Jersey City and New York. Eagle Rock was used by Washington as one of a chain of observation posts that extended from Paterson to Summit. From here the countryside below was scanned for Tory raiders. A frequenter of Eagle Rock today (1939) is Carl J. Kress, the 32-year-old Orange bookbinder who holds a permit from the Essex Co. Park Commission to yodel in the reservation every morning between 8 and 8:45. Kress obtained the permit in 1936 after a policeman attempted to put an end to his Alpine habits on the ground that the park commission's rules prohibited singing or playing musical instruments on the reservation. At that, his unique grant allows him only "to yodel . . . subject to the rules and regulations of the park commission."
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