. Book of the Royal blue . and the Philadelphia &Reading, and obtained its name fromthe brook east of the station, which wasa land boundary in the Colonial days—a name handed down to the BoundBrook Route, the pioneer fast this point there is a turn more tothe southward, following closely the oldstage road. Bound Brook is a very oldsettlement, the name occurring 230years ago. The first house was calledby a name rather unpronounceable, before the steam in the tea-kettle ofJames Watts mother had lifted the lid,the old line of Swift-Sure stages made astop liere. The middle link of this j
. Book of the Royal blue . and the Philadelphia &Reading, and obtained its name fromthe brook east of the station, which wasa land boundary in the Colonial days—a name handed down to the BoundBrook Route, the pioneer fast this point there is a turn more tothe southward, following closely the oldstage road. Bound Brook is a very oldsettlement, the name occurring 230years ago. The first house was calledby a name rather unpronounceable, before the steam in the tea-kettle ofJames Watts mother had lifted the lid,the old line of Swift-Sure stages made astop liere. The middle link of this j^reat tri-partite through line is reached at BoundBrook, where its trains enter upon theNew York division of the splendid Read-ing Railroad System. From this pointthe line runs straight away southwestthrough the beautiful and productivegarden lands of Somerset and Mercer,to where the River Delaware flows be-tween New Jersey and HI\KI: hlMVK, K.\U:MI>rNT IAIiK. lHir,. Rackawackhanna, and was the head-quarters of Lord Cornwallis in 1777, andof the notorious Col. Simcoe. The firsttwo-story house, built in 17^4, was ap-parently regarded as too ambitious astructure ; and as if suggesting that theowner was inclined to put on airs, wasdenominated Van Nordens (Jueens Bridge was built acrossthe Raritan in 1731, and used by theold-time stages, at that time the onlymeans of public travel. The village haslong been a station on the line of travelbetween New York and Philadelphia,long before railroads were dreamed of; Wide-stretching fields of waving grainalternate with orchards whose serriedrows of trees bend beneath a generousfruitage, while on the farther hillsidescluster herds of highest pedigree. Smil-ing villages dot the far-horizoned land-scape, and wide as the travelers visionmay reach are evidences of thrift andpeace and plenty. The first station met upon theReading is Weston, a charming vi
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