. 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. saw-m., and 4dwelling-houses. The river falls 6 feet at the Little rift, and 16at the Foul rift; and a canal of a mile in length would form a 502 WARREN COUNTY. water-power almost unequalled in the state. Sarepta, on Beaverbrook, a branch of the Pequest, 3 1-4 m. NE. of Belvidere, has aniron fou
. 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. saw-m., and 4dwelling-houses. The river falls 6 feet at the Little rift, and 16at the Foul rift; and a canal of a mile in length would form a 502 WARREN COUNTY. water-power almost unequalled in the state. Sarepta, on Beaverbrook, a branch of the Pequest, 3 1-4 m. NE. of Belvidere, has aniron foundry, grist-m., and saw-m., and 4 dwelling-houses. The first settlement in the township was made by two mennamed Axford and Green, probably about 1730. The tradition is,that on coming into the country they ascended Rattlesnake hill,and there climbed a tree, to survey the country and fix upon a spotfor their residence. Axfords attention was attracted by the natu-ral meadows at Oxford Furnace, while Green preferred the banksof the beautiful little lake which still bears his name. The de-scendants of both these adventurers may still be found around theplaces of their original settlement. The name of Axford was verygenerally pronounced Oxford, and it is probable the township tookits name from Belvidere, from near the Washington Turnpike. Belvidere, the county-town of Warren, is beautifully situated onboth sides of the Pequest river, at its junction with the Delaware,in lat. 40° 47 N., and Ion. 1° 50 E. from Washington; 65 milesW. of New York, 65 N. of Philadelphia, and 13 above has a courthouse, clerks and surrogates offices, a bank, 3churches, (Methodist, Presbyterian, and Episcopalian,) 4 schools,(and an academy now building.) 2 printing-offices, at which weeklypapers are published—the Belvidere Apollo, (whig,) establishedin 1824, and the Warren Journal, (dem.) established in 1833—4 hotels, (one new and very large,) 3 grist-mills, (one ofwhich is very large,
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