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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 6A
Old Mine Rd.

Montague – Walpack Center – Flatbrookville – Rosencrans Ferry; Old Mine Rd.
Montague to Rosencrans Ferry, 19.8 miles
Few gas stations; occasional tourist homes.
Road graveled with small stretches macadamized; most parts unmarked, and though occasional signs point to "Old Delaware Road," the route is difficult to follow especially at junctions with other dirt roads. Rattlesnakes and copperheads abound in region; advisable to exercise caution when walking.

The southern part of Old Mine Road offers a glimpse into the history of New Jersey. Running southward at the foot of Kittatinny Mountains, close to the Delaware River, the route penetrates some of the State's most scenic country, popular with hunters, fishermen, and city-sated week-enders. Some of the farms are still owned by the descendants of the Dutch and French Huguenot settlers of the seventeenth century. Much of the route coincides with the traditional Old Mine Rd., which, it is believed, was built by the Dutch before 1650 in order to explore the mineral deposits described to them by the Indians. Nothing is known about these miners who laid the path from Kingston, N. Y., to Delaware Water Gap, but records of the Dutch West India Company indicate the existence of a rich iron mine here. In 1777 Robert Erskine, Surveyor General for General Washington, mapped the locality, placing the Old Mine Road exactly where it is today.

The whole countryside was frontier during the French and Indian wars.

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