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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
At 32.9 miles US 206 passes a steep hillside (L). Beneath its surface the
hill is a great mass of iron ore. High up on its slope are five shafts of
STANHOPE IRON MINES, which served during the Revolution.
STANHOPE, 33.8 miles (800 alt., 1,089 pop.), is a compact cluster of
modest little houses and stores. In Revolutionary years the village was the
home of the Sussex Iron Co.; a few of the workers' one-story houses, resembling French peasant cottages, remain. The first anthracite furnace in
the United States was built at Stanhope (c. 1841).
On the Morris Canal are RUINS OF AN INCLINED PLANE, where the
moats were carried 75 feet up a railway run by water power to reach a
higher level.
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