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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
SUSSEX, 7.1 miles (450 alt., 1,415 pop.) (see Tour 9), is at the junction
with State 23 (see Tour 9).
Between Sussex and Ross Corner the route is an unnumbered, but well-posted, county highway.
A crossroads at 8.6 miles is marked by black and white directional signs,
below which is a smaller sign reading, "This is McCoy's Corner." Most of
the farm population for miles around needs no guidance to the white
FARMHOUSE (L) behind tall evergreens where William (Bill) Sharpe
McCoy has lived for 50 years. During the last 40 years McCoy has been a
horse dealer; he sells about 700 animals a year, not counting trades. He is
short, friendly man, with thin gray hair and a mustache; the trousers of
his gray business suit are tucked into black puttees, and he wears over-shoes around his stable and office behind the house. McCoy is his own
banker in dealing with the farmers, keeping their notes and his other accounts in a green tin box that he carries out to his stable office every morning. If he needs cash, he can take a note on a horse to the Sussex bank and
get it discounted. "But they wouldn't discount a note on an automobile,"
he says, "because there's too much depreciation." The best money he ever
made was during the years that he ran a fertilizer factory. A relative, a veterinarian, kept him posted on mortally ill animals over a wide area. McCoy's follow-up system was successful, for he seldom hauled away a dead
horse without selling a live one to the bereaved farmer. For six years McCoy was pianist for the Masons, and his violin has furnished many tunes
for country dances. The violin bears a printed Stradivarius label along
with the words, "Made in Germany"; a New York dealer once offered
him $2,000 for it, but McCoy wouldn't sell.
South of McCoy's Corner the highway, here paved with macadam,
swings through a valley, past occasional ponds and icehouses. Westward
are the Kittatinny Mts., part of the Appalachian Range.
PELLETTOWN, 12.2 miles (420 alt.), is little more than a general
store (R) and a railroad station at the crossing of the Lehigh and New
England R.R. and Papakating Creek.
At 13.9 miles is (R) WINDING BROOK FARM, named for a tortuous
stream that can water more cows per airline yard of length than any other
brook in this part of the State.
In this area and elsewhere along the route, weathered, brownish slate
formations are exposed in highway cuts. Known to geologists as the Martinsburg shale, the rock has hardened and become slate through meta-
morphism. Outcroppings continue into eastern Pennsylvania, where the
rock is extensively quarried for commercial use.
ROSS CORNER, 15.9 miles (500 alt.) (see Tour 6).
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