LONG POND IRONWORKS
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LONG POND IRONWORKS |
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NAME: Long Pond Ironworks COUNTY: Passaic County ROADS: 2WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: all BEST TIME TO VISIT: April-Nov |
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West Milford, NJI always go fishing in that area and it looks like a great place. I'll go viset and I'll post pictures soon.To get there click here: http://www.longpondironworks.org/directions.htm (Greenwood Lake Turnpike -Route 511) REMAINS: church, a store/post office, schoolhouses, and dwellings |
| From http://www.njparksandforests.org/parks/longpond.html"Long Pond Ironworks was founded in 1766 by German ironmaster Peter Hasenclever. Hasenclever brought 500 ironworkers and their families from Germany to build an ironworks "plantation," including a furnace, forge, houses, shops and farms. A dam at "Long Pond" (Greenwood Lake) on the upper Wanaque River provided the hydropower to operate a blast for the furnace and a large forge. Two more furnaces were constructed in the 1860s. Operations at the site ceased in 1882 due to the industry-wide conversion to anthracite furnaces using Pennsylvania coal. Submitted by: Phil |
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