Historic Newark; a collection of the facts & traditions about the most interesting sites, streets and buildings of the city; . OLD POINT HOUSEFrom Woodside, by C. G. Hine The Old Point House, the history of which is so closely wovenwith the fishing industry on the Passaic, after changing hands manytimes, became the resort of fishermen, who, though pursuing theirvocation within sight of their own kitchen windows, neverthelesscooked chowders and spun yarns at the old house. Later, whenthere were many rowing matches on the river, the Point House wasconverted into a sort of half-way place for refr
Historic Newark; a collection of the facts & traditions about the most interesting sites, streets and buildings of the city; . OLD POINT HOUSEFrom Woodside, by C. G. Hine The Old Point House, the history of which is so closely wovenwith the fishing industry on the Passaic, after changing hands manytimes, became the resort of fishermen, who, though pursuing theirvocation within sight of their own kitchen windows, neverthelesscooked chowders and spun yarns at the old house. Later, whenthere were many rowing matches on the river, the Point House wasconverted into a sort of half-way place for refreshments, and partiesloitered in picturesque groups beneath the willows. Drivers whotravelled over the river road between Belleville and Newark spokeof the landmark as the half-way house, while oarsmen counted itthe half-way point over the mile and a half rowing course. 53. — ^ o li! < I s- < ~ - i — 5 = - <- z ~ HISTORIC NEWARK Charles F. Murphy, a veteran angler and hunter of XcTwark. whomade in 1865 the first split bamboo nshins-ro-d. s^ave the New YorkTi-rms, December li, iSSi, an interrie^- in T-hich he describes thehunting and fishing about Newark from 1S5C to i^fc. Snipe, wood-cock, and rabbits were as thick as hops ri?ht inere in Newark, saidhe, and Ive seen flocks of wiid ducks and ge^se cover the groundback of the Citv Hall. T^ne City Haii tiien stood at the comer ofWilliam and Broad Streets, and back of it -^rtre a rond and marshmade by a small brook. Ive caught trout and nerch and shot gamewhere St, Patricks Cathedral and the &nest residences now used to scoop up hatfnls of fish during dinner hoar, andthe sky was darkened every day by the flocks of wild pigecms thatflew to the trees on the Commons, now ^lilitarr Park,^ He said further that he had seen in the Passaic River stnigeoiifour feet long spring out o
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