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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
DUNELLEN, 16.5 miles (60 alt., 5,148 pop.), was conceived, planned
and established (1868) by the Central R.R. of New Jersey. An independent corporation, directed by Jersey Central officials, laid out the streets
and sold lots. The borough was incorporated in 1887. Though the derivation of the name is masked by countless theories and smoking-room jokes,
the weight of authority rests with the simple solution of Mrs. Emily de
Forest, daughter of the president of the railroad at that time. Mrs. de
Forest says that her father took the first name of a friend, Ellen Betts, and
prefixed the "dun" because he liked the sound of the combination. Mail
from the Art Color Printing Co., which prints 10,000,000 copies of Macfadden magazines monthly, gives the small borough a first-class post office. The same concern prints the World Almanac and a large quantity of telephone directories.
Left from the center of Dunellen on Washington Ave. and R. on the Stelton
Rd. is NEW MARKET, 1.1 miles, known in Colonial times as Quibbletown. Baptist
residents in 1707 began to disagree on whether the Sabbath should he observed on
Saturday or Sunday and the controversy lasted for a century. American soldiers,
camped here to watch the enemy, wrote of the place as "Squabbletown." The VAIL
MANSION (private), New Market Rd. (L), was built by Duncan Phyfe for Eliza
Phyfe Vail, his daughter. Erected in 1814 on a Revolutionary campsite, it is note-worthy for its almost pure Classic Revival lines. The three-story, claphoarded building has four imposing Doric columns. South of New Market is HADLEY AIRPORT,
3.5 m., serving the New Brunswick area. In 1924 it became the first eastern air
mail terminus; Newark Airport has succeeded it. Two planes of the Bell Telephone
Co., used for experimental radiophone work, are kept here.
At 18.7 miles State 28 crosses Bound Brook or Boundary Brook, named
by the Dutch prior to 1656 when they raised the flag of New Netherland
here.
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