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Riewerts Memorial Home, Inc ......................... 1
Bud Garlasco Builders ...................................... 2
John Jamieson Remax Integrity ...................... 3
Haworth Service Center Inc ............................. 4
A. DeFino Masonry, LLC ................................... 5
Dumont Florist .................................................. 5
Madison Avenue Coach Works ........................ 6
Mint Mart Deli & Convenience Store .............. 6
Cornerstone Capital Financial Services ........... 7
Northern Valley Financial Center ..................... 8
Under Skin Art ...................................................8
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Things to do and see
Craftsman Farms:
Craftsman Farms was founded in 1908 in Parsippany-Troy Hills, Morris County, New Jersey, by noted early
20th century designer Gustav Stickley as a farm and school for the Arts and Crafts movement. It remained
in use until 1915 when it was sold to a family and became a private house.
When threatened by development in 1989, the home was purchased by the Township of Parsippany-Troy
Hills through eminent domain. The property is operated as a museum, also known as the Stickley Museum
at Craftsman Farms, and is operated by the Craftsman Farms Foundation.
The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms is open for tours year round Thursday through Sunday. The grounds,
a town park, are open from dawn till dusk.
Frelinghuysen Arboretum:
This beautiful 127-acre Frelinghuysen Arboretum offers visitors a serene place to
relax as well as to learn more about plants well-suited to the soils and climate
of Morris County. Surrounding a magnificent Colonial Revival mansion, the
woodlands, meadows, beautiful gardens and distinctive collections of trees
and shrubs make the ideal setting for leisurely strolls. Self-guiding trail booklets
are available at the reception desk to enrich one’s visit to this singular property.
Today, The Frelinghuysen Arboretum is also a regional center for horticultural activities, including educational
programs, special tours, group tours, special events, and a comprehensive collection of botanical
literature. The Joseph F. Haggerty Education Center and Home Demonstration Gardens have been designed
to expand the Park Commission’s services to the gardening public in a barrier-free environment.
Whippany Railway Museum:
The Whippany Railway Museum has been bringing to life the history
of New Jersey’s railroads to the public since 1985. Offering family
entertainment for young and old alike. Weekly excursions and events
are a thrill for the whole family. The museum is open every Sunday
from March to September from Noon to to 4pm. Come see New
Jersey’s rich railroad history, lovingly restored and preserved by the
all volunteer staff of the Whippany Railway Museum.
Troy Meadows Wetlands:
This is natural wetland park not far from the Great Swamp National
Wildlife Refuge. Troy Meadows Wetlands has been designated as
a National Natural Landmark by the United States Department of
Interior and was once part of ancient glacial lake Passaic, which
was the largest Freshwater Swamp in the region. Today this land
helps protect wildlife habitat of numerous reptiles, amphibians,
butterflies, mammals, and migratory birds. This little piece of wilderness
is within 25 miles of tens of millions of people and is often
explored for it’s beauty and trails.
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Sea Girt Lighthouse
Nestled within an L-shaped Victorian building, the Sea GirtLighthouse first shone in 1896. Like most lighthouses of
the day, its fourth-order Fresnel lens revolved on ball bearing driven by complex clockworks. With just one winding,
the light turned for 7 1/2 hours, turning red for two seconds out of six. Originally built to bridge the 40-mile gap
between Barnegat Light and the Twin Lights of Navesink, this square red bricktower attached to a keeper’s dwelling
was decommissioned in1945. The interior of the lighthouse has been meticulously restored by a local citizens
committee and furnished in keeping with its historical period. Open Sun. 2 pm - 4 pm the week after Easter to the
week after Thanksgiving. Closed on major holidays. Free admission. Donations welcome. 732-974-0514.
Liberty Science Center:
Liberty Science Center in Jersey City offers visitors of all ages informal insight into science and technology. Visitors
can discover the joy and excitement of exploring science and technology at their own pace, thanks to the
center’s interactive environment. The Center features a distinctive building with exhibitions that show science and
technology as they exist, embedded in our lives. It also has the nation’s largest IMAX® Dome Theater, which fills
viewers’ peripheral vision, making them feel as though they are traveling to remote, often inaccessible places. The
center also is home to the Joseph D. Williams Science Theater, which shows 3-D films. The center offers a variety
of exciting traveling exhibitions from across North America. Exhibitions change about every three months. Located
within the 1,200-acre Liberty State Park along the Hudson River, the LSC is a short ferry ride from the Statue of Liberty
and Ellis Island and just minutes from New York City.
WOW - World of Wings:
Wildwood:
one of the best value family vacation destinations at the Jersey shore! There are more than 180 free events and
festivals held annually, as well as a five-mile stretch of free beautiful white sand beaches, voted “Best Beaches in
New Jersey. Stroll the two-mile world-renowned Boardwalk with its vast array of amusements, waterparks, arcades,
games, shops and eateries. Any way you look at it, the Wildwoods offer a Jersey Shore experience sure to create
lifelong memories and beckon visitors back year after year. The Wildwoods’ beaches stretch for five miles across
the shores of North Wildwood, Wildwood and Wildwood Crest and the Wildwoods. Our sparkling, clean beaches are
spaciously wide and completely free!
We are a Children’s Museum and Family Fun Center located in Teaneck, NJ.
Let your journey begin by stepping into our LIVE Butterfly Atrium where we house different types of exotic butterflies from all
over the world. Next, check out our butterfly receiving room where you can watch our butterflies emerge from their chrysalises.
Visit our Exhibition Hall where we have a unique collection of animals and insects for you to explore and observe. Don’t
let your adventure stop there! We have a Soft-play area for toddlers, Bounce House, Ball Pit, Rock Climbing Wall, Bubble
Room, Play Kitchen, Arcade, Mini Race Track, Face Painting and so much more!
Come visit us any time for General Admission and explore our attractions freely at your own pace. WOW would love to host
your next, Birthday Party or Field Trip, Play Date, or Group Visit.
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Dear Mr. Defino,
We would like to thank you for doing such a wonderful
job resurfacing and sealing the dam. Your employees
worked very quickly to get our time sensitive project
completed on schedule and sight was left clean. Our
project was completed May 2012, three years later,
(May 2015),on current inspection only minor spider
cracks have been found. We would appreciate it if
you could inspect the dam yourself and give us a price
quote to reseal it so we may keep it in good condition.
Sincerely,
Heather Andrews
Anna Lake
President
Interesting Facts about
New Jersey:
• New Jersey is a peninsula.
• Highlands, New Jersey has the highest elevation
along the entire eastern seaboard,
from Maine to Florida.
• New Jersey is the only state where all of
its counties are classified as metropolitan
areas.
• New Jersey has more race horses than
Kentucky.
• In 2005, New Jersey produced more than
a million gallons of wine. The state ranks
fifth among wine-producing states after
California, Washington, New York and Oregon
-- according to the Garden State
Wine Groweers Association.
• New Jersey has more Cubans in Union
City (1 sq. mi.) than Havana, Cuba.
• New Jersey has the most dense system of
highways and railroads in the U.S.
• New Jersey has the highest cost of living.
• New Jersey has the highest cost of auto
insurance.
• New Jersey has the highest property taxes
in the nation.
• New Jersey has the most diners in the
world and is sometimes referred to as the
Diner Capital of the World.
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Historic New Jersey
Pequannock Spillway
The Pequannoc Spillway is a run-of-the-river spillway
constructed in the 1920s as part of the Morris
Canal system in the Pompton Plains section
of Pequannock, New Jersey on one bank of the
river and Wayne, New Jersey on the other bank.
The spillway creates usable waterfront land out
of swamps and provides water retention by cre-
ating a backwater on the Ramapo River. The
structure is listed as part of the Morris Canal on
the New Jersey Register of Historic Places as well
as the National Register of Historic Places. It is a
sister structure to the Pompton dam which lies on
the Pompton River.
The Pompton Dam is an early 20th-century concrete
spillway over 270 feet wide, equal in girth
to the Great Falls of Paterson located along
the Pompton River a quarter-mile south of the
Pompton dam and associated guard bank in
Pequannock Township’s Aquatic Park. The dam
is a run-of-the-river spillway, which traverses the
width of the river and at normal water elevation
allows water to spill over its face. The structure
is 22 feet tall, though possesses only an 8 inch
over 3 foot grade on the upstream side. An associated
guard house sits near the site in poor
repair.
Like its sister structure the Pompton Dam, the
Pequannoc Spillway was originally made entirely
of timber. Constructed in the early 19th
century the Pequannoc Spillway aided in navigation
upriver along the Morris Canal during its
almost 100 years of use. The structure was also
part of a system to maintain water levels along
portions of the Pompton River and Ramapo
River which were at the time of their construction
a part of the Morris Canal.
The removal of the spillway was advocated
against in the 1920s by C.C. Vermuele, De-
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commissioning Engineer for the Morris Canal
and Dr. Henry B. Kümmel, General Manager
of the Morris Canal and former New
Jersey State Geologist. Both argued that
removing the structure would reduce the
surrounding lands to a series of “ill smelling
mud flats,” noting this would devalue the
adjacent lands. On Vermuele’s suggestion,
the State of New Jersey has upgraded the
dam to a concrete structure providing the
same operation as it had previously performed.
Though the Pequannoc Spillway is silted on
the upstream side such that the backwater
it creates is no longer navigable, the spillway
still sheds water over the entirety of this
face creating a regional tourist attraction.
interesting facts continued...
• New Jersey is home to the original mystery
pork parts chub -- Taylor Ham or Pork Roll.
• Home to the less mysterious, but the best, Italian
hot dogs and Italian sausage w/peppers
and onions.
• North Jersey has the most shopping malls in
one area in the world, with seven major shopping
malls in a 25 square mile radius.
• New Jersey is home to the Statue of Liberty
and Ellis Island.
• The Passaic River was the site of the first submarine
ride by inventor John P. Holland.
• New Jersey has 50+ resort cities and towns,
some of the nations’ most famous: Asbury
Park, Wildwood, Atlantic City, Seaside Heights,
Long Branch and Cape May.
• New Jersey has the most stringent testing
along our coast line for Water Quality Control
than any other seaboard state in the entire
country.
• New Jersey is a leading technology and industrial
state and is thelargest chemical producing
state in the nation when you include
pharmaceuticals.
• Jersey tomatoes are known the world over as
being the best you can buy.
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