. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey : containing a general collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc., relating to its history and antiquities, with geographical descriptions of every township in the state. Illustrated by 120 engravings. evillage. Thompsons hill, a beautiful, romantic eminence, 200 or300 feet in height, appears in the background. Milford contains3 stores, 3 taverns, 12 or 15 mechanic shops, 1 merchant and 2saw m., 2 churches, and 45 dwellings. There is a fine bridgeacross the Delaware, built in 1841, at an expen
. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey : containing a general collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc., relating to its history and antiquities, with geographical descriptions of every township in the state. Illustrated by 120 engravings. evillage. Thompsons hill, a beautiful, romantic eminence, 200 or300 feet in height, appears in the background. Milford contains3 stores, 3 taverns, 12 or 15 mechanic shops, 1 merchant and 2saw m., 2 churches, and 45 dwellings. There is a fine bridgeacross the Delaware, built in 1841, at an expense of about $20, lumber trade is carried on extensively in this thriving , forty years since, contained a grist and 2 saw m., a black-smith shop, a store, and a few dwellings only. Its original namewas Burnt Mills, from some mills destroyed here by fire, at an earlyday, and later it was called Lowreytown. For thirty-five years past,it has borne its present name. The Christ-ian church was built 240 HUNTERDON COUNTY. about fifteen years since, and as females were admitted to partici-pate in the ministry, a Mrs. Roberds, for the first year or two,preached to the congregation. The Presbyterian church waserected in 1835, and the Rev. Mr. Henshaw was the first settled Southern View of Milford. Frenchtown, on the Delaware, 4 miles below Milford, has 1 grist-m., 1 saw-m., 2 stores, 3 taverns, several mechanic shops, and25 dwellings. At this place is a neat bridge across the York, 4 miles N. of Milford, is a flourishing village, sprunginto existence within a few years. It has an oil-m., and 2 grist-m.,a store, 1 tavern, several mechanics, and about 16 Pleasant, 3 miles N. of Milford, is, as its name implies, plea-santly situated upon rising ground, where there is a Presbyterianchurch, a tavern, store, several mechanics, and about 15 dwell-ings. Everittstown, in a handsome valley on the Nischisakawickcreek, 4 miles E. of M
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