[quote name='jmp883' post='312258' date='Jun 8 2009, 18:45 ']The next town up from me has several state parks. This is the manor house, somewhat obscured by the fall foliage, at Ringwood State Park. Ringwood Manor was one of George Washington's HQ's and is the center of the iron mining industry that thrived here from the Revolution through the 1950's.[/quote]
Joe, thanks for posting these showing what our area of New Jersey looks like, something that is more common for the Garden State than most outsiders think. Usually when anyone hears New Jersey they only think of the NJ Turnpike, Garden Staet Parkway, huge chemical plants and cities loaded with corruption wherease those places are really a fraction of our small state. One of my great-grandfathers was a foreman for the Hewitt family that owned Ringwood Manor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with one of my grandmothers born at what was the family home on the property that then was thousands of acres.
Joe, thanks for posting these showing what our area of New Jersey looks like, something that is more common for the Garden State than most outsiders think. Usually when anyone hears New Jersey they only think of the NJ Turnpike, Garden Staet Parkway, huge chemical plants and cities loaded with corruption wherease those places are really a fraction of our small state. One of my great-grandfathers was a foreman for the Hewitt family that owned Ringwood Manor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with one of my grandmothers born at what was the family home on the property that then was thousands of acres.
Rich Dean, Butler, New Jersey, USA
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Member of Kinney Hose Co. 1, Butler Fire Dept. since 1973, Fire Police Officer since 2000
Dispatcher at Butler Police Communications from March 1975 to July 2009
Secretary of North Jersey Volunteer Firemen's Association since 1980
Member of Tri-Boro First Aid Squad (volunteer ems) since 2000 as a driver
Member of many Yahoogroups, owner of some such as:
[post="0"]FirematicEvents Yahoogroup[/post]the place to for listing and discussion of any event by a public safety organization.
[post="0"]RailfanEvents Yahoogroup[/post]
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