Showing posts with label Morris Canal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Morris Canal. Show all posts

Saturday, September 10, 2016

A new one is under construction.


The old Berkeley Avenue Bridge. Stairway was removed later.


A new bridge is under construction to replace this one.
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More info? See The New Town Crier of May 2011 right here!

Friday, June 12, 2015

Come to the Bloomfield Museum


And see the framed original engraving - Frank M. Gregory - 1886


Morris Canal

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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Take a Hike!

Literally! 

But hurry and register. 

The Morris Canal semiannual hike through Bloomfield is a little over two weeks away and has just a few openings (which is rare) remaining.

It's step off is on April 25th 2015 from 10:00 Am - 2:00 Pm beginning at the Wrights Field parking lot (Montgomery Street to Berkeley Avenue then follow signs to parking lot).

I attended in the fall with our Mayor, a councilman and about 15 other interested explorers of all ages and highly endorse the program.

Benefits:

1. Historically accurate, informative presentation by NJ Canal Society member and Bloomfield resident Rich Rockwell. His 20 page handout is something you'll take home, refer to and keep for the future.
2. Cost. It's the best $5.00 you'll spend this season (goes to bus expense and book production)
3. Relaxing. Out in the open air, walking, thinking, listening, questioning, imagining and viewing the course of the Morris Canal through Bloomfield. And you will even relive history via your imagination by standing on and in places Morris Canal traversed.
4. Get to see Bloomfield's 1754 Collins House (normally off limits during proposed restoration) and the efforts to restore it as a Morris Canal Greenway project.
5. Take a load off as the Recreation Department bus takes you to the farthest township reaches of the Canal and back.
6. Two bathroom breaks at Bloomfield Township-owned facilities.

To Register: E-mail: MorrisCanal@gmail.com. It's easy.

But hurry, spaces are limited. 




The Collins House (and proposal)



Friday, April 3, 2015

Coalmen Correction February 13, 2018


Canal boats laden with coal unloading at a dock in the vicinity of Bloomfield

We are advised this is NOT Bloomfield, but a Canal stop in the vicinity of Boonton, NJ (See below)






Saturday, October 19, 2013

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Two New Morris Canal Pictures in living color

Bridge near Belleville Avenue - Still there but modernized. Erected so employees could get to their jobs at the Oakes Mill Factory.

Saturday, April 21, 2012



Morris Canal - Berkeley Avenue Bridge. Bloomfield, NJ


Oakes Woolen Mill 1927 Bloomfield, NJ


Here's Joe Bloomfield

Maj. Joseph Bloomfield - October 18, 1753-October 3, 1823. Fourth Governor of New Jersey

                                                     Painting by Charles Willson Peale
Joseph Bloomfield (1753–1823), who was born in Woodbridge, N.J., studied law under Attorney General Cortlandt Skinner and was admitted to the bar in 1774. The following year he was commissioned a lieutenant in the New Jersey Light Infantry. Bloomfield became a captain in the 3d New Jersey Regiment in February 1776, and he was promoted to major in November 1776. He served as deputy judge advocate general of the Continental army from 1776 until his resignation in October 1778. Bloomfield fought at the battles of Brandywine and Monmouth, and he was wounded at Brandywine. He was elected state attorney general of New Jersey in 1783 and reelected in 1788. After changing his politics to Jeffersonian republicanism, Bloomfield served as governor of New Jersey 1801–12 and as a member of Congress 1817–21.

Oakes Mills Founder David Oakes, Jan. 13 1809 - July 26, 1878



Bloomfield Schools at War


Letter to George Oakes 1911. George Augustus Oakes Born Bloomfield, July 9, 1872. Attended Bloomfield Public Schools. Graduate Rutgers College.



Bloomfield Trolley #29