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Identifier: summerexcursionr00lack (find matches)
Title: Summer excursion routes and rates ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company
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Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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limits, and contains bass and pickerel. It affords goodsport for the angler, and the catches are often large. Speedwell Lake is anotherpretty spot, situated about a mile outside of the city toward Morris plains, and offersinducements to fishermen who wish to try their skill. Mendham is seven miles from Morristown, and stages connect with all trains tocarry passengers there. It has the distinction of being located in the heart of themountains, and there is scarcely a cooler or more bracing spot in all New Jersey. Itis renowned for its health giving qualities, and also for the long extended view overvalley and lower mountain. The place is nothing but an old-fashioned village, filledwith quaint houses, honest people, fertile farms and perpetual happiness. If Mend-ham had first-class railroad facilities it would prove a dangerous rival to all other
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WASHINGTONS HEADQUARTERS, MORRISTOWN, N. J. DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA A WESTERN R. R. =^7 places in the State within the same distance from New York. In the warmer monthsit is filled with summer boarders, and its attractions are almost without limit. MORRIS PLAINS. Altitude, 403 ft. 32.01 miles from New York ; Single ticket, 90 cts. ; Excursion ticket, $1.35-Many people regard Morris Plains as being the most beautiful spot along thisline. It derives its name from the fact that the town is built on a high plateau, sur-rounded on the north and west by mountains. Summer here is delightful, on accountof the breeze having a clear sweep across the plain. The soil is sandy, and within anhour after a heavy shower is very often as dry as though there had been no rainfall.For this reason the entire section is remarkably healthful. The roads are splendidlykept and driving is a luxury. A mile back from the station is the imposing buildingof the State Hospital for the insane. Morris Plains is composed

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