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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
BRANCHVILLE, 13.3 miles (550 alt., 685 pop.), is a thriving town with
a few blocks of modest homes. Directly behind the bank (R) is the old
PARK PLACE HOTEL, a group of odd houses bulked together into one
Building. It has a rambling, glassed-in porch topped with a series of globe-shaped lights along the balustrade. Opposite (L) are the FAIR GROUNDS
where the annual Branchville Horse and Cattle Show is held in late
August.
Branchville was laid out by surveyors as an eight-sided polygon resembling an Indian arrowhead.
Left from Branchville on an improved road, and L. at 1.2 m. through a country
at leads other sections of the State in milk production. On the outskirts of
BEEMERVILLE, 6.2 miles (760 alt.), is broad meadowland where the State maintains
large experimental MODEL DAIRY FARM (open to public). Foods and feeding
methods are compared by experiments on nearly 300 Guernsey and Holstein cattle,
and several varieties of cattle are being experimentally bred. Latest mechanical devices are used in the cultivation of cattle foods on the 1,2oo-acre farm. Near the
center of Beemerville is a WILD ANIMAL FARM (adm. 25¢).
Southeast of Branchville, US 206 parallels Paulins Kill.
AUGUSTA, 15.2 miles (490 alt., 75 pop.), is a railroad junction and a
small number of houses. The country is a broad, level plateau with gentle
hills on both sides of it. In the vicinity have been found rock shelters and
campsites of the Munsee Indians.
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