. Trolley exploring : an electric railroad guide to historic & picturesque places about New York, New Jersey, and New England . is now building from Keyport to Red B&nk, about12 miles. ROUTE 2. To Irvington aLi\d Milburn, close toShort Hills, up on the ridge of the OrangeMountains. One advantage this short line (less than an hour in time fromthe Broad and Market street corner, Newark, and but 15 centsfrom New York) possesses—it whirls the traveler quickly up intothe grandest region of the Orange Mountains, into a section, too, that is rapidly becomingone of the most beauti-ful residentially—SK
. Trolley exploring : an electric railroad guide to historic & picturesque places about New York, New Jersey, and New England . is now building from Keyport to Red B&nk, about12 miles. ROUTE 2. To Irvington aLi\d Milburn, close toShort Hills, up on the ridge of the OrangeMountains. One advantage this short line (less than an hour in time fromthe Broad and Market street corner, Newark, and but 15 centsfrom New York) possesses—it whirls the traveler quickly up intothe grandest region of the Orange Mountains, into a section, too, that is rapidly becomingone of the most beauti-ful residentially—SKortHills. At the routesend, within a compara-tively short walk, isSovitK MovirvtaJnReservation, on theridge of South Mountain,the finest of the chain ofnew New Jersey parks,a region utterly wild,primeval and returnedto nature, full of smallgame and with the lastof the hunting lodges thatwealthy New Yorkershave occupied for gener-ations now cleared farms Presbyterian church In all the land on theat Springfield, n. j. outskirts of New York Courtesy of Newark Evening News, there is nothing like Over New Jersey. 19 The man or woman who can walk will find a pilgrimage toUnion in the valley to the south no bad journey for a summerafternoon. Leave this trolley car at Maplewood. It is twomiles to this old settlement that during the Revolution was knownas Connecticut Farms. The story told here is of the old churchthat is still standing and its fighting parson, James the British approached, Parson Caldwell was in the frontranks. The wadding for the charges gave out, and the dominiehurried into the church. He returned loaded down with hymnbooks. Give em Watts, boys, give em Watts! he called, andhe tore the hymn book leaves into shreds that the muskets mightbe loaded. Close at hand is a tavern Washington is said to have stoppedat, the Old Meeker Inn. South Movmtain Reservation can also be entered by way of Wyoming, the town just beyond Maplewood, b
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