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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
HAMBURG, 45.1 miles (440 alt., 1,160 pop.), is an outsprawled little
village with concentrations of houses at its northern and southern ends
and a Lackawanna R.R. overpass between. A yellow billboard at its southern tip introduces it as the home of Daniel Haines, Governor of New Jersey in 1843 and the "first to advocate a free school system." The HAINES
MANSION, just N. of the railroad overpass at 46 miles (L), is a white, two-and-one-half-story dwelling with the gambrel roof and broad beams of
Dutch Colonial architecture; it is now a tearoom. Hamburg has a BLACKSMITH SHOP, operated for the last 50 years by the Woods brothers. Their
principal job is turning out runners for the sleighs that are used to haul
milk when deep drifts stop motor trucks.
Hamburg is at the junction with State 31.
Left on State 35 to (R) the THOMAS LAWRENCE HOUSE (private), 0.7 miles, a two-story white frame dwelling with six square pillars, and with a cellar visible in its
gray stone foundation. The house was built in 1841 on ground formerly occupied
by the home built for Thomas Lawrence in 1794 by his father-in-law, Lewis Morris,
a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Lawrence, a great-great-grandson of the original owner, lives here now. Family heirlooms include a white brocaded silk dress worn by a Lawrence lady at a ball celebrating Cornwallis' surrender
at Yorktown, and taken out of the cedar chest to be worn again in 1853 at a social
function in New York City given by the grandmother of the late President Theodore
Roosevelt.
North of Hamburg the evidence of farming is more definite than those
a few miles south. But the land is still sorry. Humpy, rockbound stubble
fields roll E. for miles to POCHUCK MT. (R). At a ridge in the road at
49.8 miles is the view northward of the white homes of Sussex, built high
among rolling hills.
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