. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: past and present:. 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 3////.V, fro
. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: past and present:. 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 3////.V, 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 iii 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 settledclergymnn. 1^ Southern view of Mil ford in 1842. The borough of Frenchtown 4 miles below Milford has several sawand grist mills, 4 stores, 3 taverns, and in 1868, pop. about 1, 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 IG Pleasant, 3 miles N. of Milford, is, as its name implies, plea-santly situated upon rising ground, where there is a Presb}i^erianchurch, a tavern, store, several mechanics, and about 15 dwell-ings. Everittstown, in a handsome valley on the Nischisakawickcreek, 4 miles E. of Milford, is a village of about the same size asthe above, and contains a Methodist church. Pittstown, on the of the township, contains 2 stores, a tavern, grist-m., andabout 12 dwellings. AMWELL. This township was incorporated in 1798, It is 12 miles long,extending across th
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