Milltown - A 19th Century Village

Milltown - A 19th Century Village (HMDDV)

Location: Chester, NJ 07930 Morris County
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Country: United States of America
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N 40° 46.728', W 74° 43.225'

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Few vestiges remain, but in the 1880s Milltown bustled. Cooper Mill shared "Main Street" with a blacksmith shop, a general store, a tavern, Abram Cooper's sawmill and the Mountain Spring Distillery, a cider mill that made apple brandy and apple jack. One mile north, the Chester Furnace employed 100 men who produced nearly 300 tons of iron weekly. Down river, Nichols' Woolen Mill turned out blankets and Taylor's iron roaster burned unwanted sulphur from ore mined nearby. Trains loaded with iron ore rumbled through Milltown daily.Schoolteacher Edith Secor and shopkeeper John P. Rockafeller called Milltown home. They shared their community with farmers, machinists, engineers, and teamsters, people from all walks of life. Miners, making 50? a day, lived in modest houses huddled together in "patches" on the edge of town. Mill and mine owners like General Nathan A. Cooper built relative mansions in nearby Chester.
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Date Added Monday, September 1st, 2014 at 4:28am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18T E 523591 N 4514239
Decimal Degrees40.77880000, -74.72041667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 40° 46.728', W 74° 43.225'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds40° 46' 43.68" N, 74° 43' 13.50" W
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Area Code(s)201, 908, 973
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 23 Chesterfield Dr, Chester NJ 07930, US
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