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Title: Trolley exploring : an electric railroad guide to historic & picturesque places about New York, New Jersey, and New England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Childe, Cromwell
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Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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miles from the Market street corner,a trip of an hour and ten minutes, at a cost of 15 cents. It is nota region of history, but a modern land of the best of residentialtowns. The upland commences almost before Newark is fairly leftbehind, and the heavy cars pass through the well known centresof Watsessing, Bloomfield, Glen Ridge, Montclair (witha branch line to Mont-clair Heights 3 milesfurther north, 8 centsfrom Newark), Ver-ona, Hillcrest andCaldwell. By the time the up-per levels are reachedthe full rural beautyof the route is appar-ent, and it is realizedthat the State has fewfiner trolley rides. Verona boasts ofone of New Jerseysfinest sheets of water— Verona Lake.Caldwell has thehonor of having beenthe birthplace of ex-President Cieveland. BRANCH BROOK PARK Of the seven parks the Essex County Park Commission haslaid out in and about Newark these past four years at a cost of$4,000,000—Branch Brook, East Side, West Side, Orange,Wequahic, South Mountain and Eagle Rock Reserva-
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V - ■ * THOMAS A. EDISONS RESIDENCE, LLEWELLYNPARK, ORANGE, N. J. 22 Trolley Exploring, tions—Branch Brook is one worth a special visit, just as SouthMountain Reservation and Eagle Rock Reservations are.Since it lies in Newarks very heart, however, it is not men-tioned in any of the routes here that lead out of the town. Three lines reach it, all starting from the corner of Broad andMarket streets. The Orange street car may be taken to its south-ern entrance, the Bloomfleld avenue car to its centre, the ForestHill car to Mt. Prospect avenue and Ballantine Parkway, fromwhich point there is a walk of two blocks under maple trees toits northern division. Though but 280 acres in extent Branch Brook Park is a finestretch of ornamental and practical gardening. Its southerndivision contains a lake, a wading pool for children, a playfield of15 to 16 acres, and an English formal garden. Throughout itsnorthern division the ground is laid out in a plantation that willbe grown into the form o

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