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NEW JERSEY
A Guide To Its Present And Past
Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of New Jersey
American Guide Series

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

Tour 5
The Kittatinny Mountains

Tour 5 (Unionville, N. Y.) – Sussex – Newton-Columbia – (Portland, Pa.);
State 8N, county road, State 8.
New York to Pennsylvania Line, 43.7 miles

The route is paralleled between the New York State Line and Sussex by the New York Susquehanna and Western R.R.; between Sussex and Ross Corner by the Lehigh and New England R.R.; and between Marksboro and Columbia by the New York, Susquehanna and Western and Lackawanna R.R.'s.
Hotels in larger towns; oil stations and tourist homes frequent.
Mostly concrete roadbed; some stretches of macadam.

The highway runs southwest, roughly paralleling the Kittatinny Mountains, highest range in the State. Running alternately along valley bottoms and the crests of ridges, it traverses a rich dairying and farming area. There are some exceptionally good views of mountains, streams, and country villages.

State 8N crosses the New York Line 0 miles, 0.6 miles south of Unionville, N. Y., and enters fine dairy country. Steep-sloped hills are crisscrossed with stone walls and studded with great red barns, each with one two concrete silos.

At 2.1 miles the highway rises to the shoulder of a ridge. Across the valley of the Wallkill River (L) is the forested slope of Pochuck Mt. (994 alt.) Close to the highway are sturdy old frame farmhouses, many with half-windows on the second floor. Wells with windlasses are in the front yards.

Settlers came into the fertile Wallkill Valley in 1740. Most of them ere of Dutch and French Huguenot extraction and had lived in the Dutch settlements around Albany. The Wallkill, flowing NE. to join the Hudson, offered a natural route for emigrants from the Hudson valley.

Largely unspoiled by signs, except those advertising such rural necessities as well drilling, State 8N has been chosen as a good medium for the all orange and black signs that describe, in doggerel spread over a series of five panels, the romantic conquests and other joys attained by users of a brushless shaving cream. One local resident, making the ultimate protest against these unscannable jingles, has nailed over a fifth sign (which revealed the brand name) a piece of cardboard bearing the neatly lettered word "NUTS."

At 6.3 miles the highway crosses a branch of the Erie R.R. at a grade and descends into the unimposing outskirts of Sussex. Nondescript frame houses perch on a hill slope, each with a small frame outhouse in the rear.

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