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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
WATERFORD WORKS, 35.9 miles (125 alt., 326 pop.), was named for
a glassworks founded in 1824. Near here three brothers, Sebastian, Ignatius, and Xavier Woos, settled in 1760 after fleeing their native Germany
to escape military service. They built a log house with walls so well
chinked and joints so tight that settlers came from miles around to inspect
it. The Woos brothers, unable to speak English, said in German that their
home was schoen, meaning "beautiful." Their American neighbors corrupted the word into "shane" and named the place Shane's Castle.
The brothers found bog iron in the swamps and sent to Germany for
ironworkers who erected a furnace. Religious intolerance compelled the
Catholic workers to meet secretly at Shane's Castle, where masses were said
by traveling priests. The bog-iron venture failed; no trace remains of furnace or house.
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