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Psychomom
Citizen
Username: Psychomom
Post Number: 317
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 12, 2006 - 9:16 am: | 
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Does anyone know the history behind the stone mile marker by the Hilton branch of the Library on Springfield Ave.? It says 5 miles to Newark on it. Looks old but I was wondering why there are no others...did they get removed through the years? Inquiring minds want to know LOL |
Larry Seltzer
Citizen
Username: Elvis
Post Number: 76
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 12, 2006 - 10:42 am: |
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Springfield Ave's a very old road. Almost all of it from there to Newark is totally paved, so I'm sure the old markers would have been taken out. |
Nohero
Supporter
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 5602
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 12, 2006 - 10:50 am: |
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There's a thread further down the "Local History" list, from about three years ago, discussing this.
/discus/messages/3517/13383.html?1051963919
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Psychomom
Citizen
Username: Psychomom
Post Number: 322
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 12, 2006 - 11:50 am: |
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thanks nohero,
that was most interesting!! Sorry I didn't see the thread before I posted. |
bettyspaghetti
Citizen
Username: Bettyspaghetti
Post Number: 28
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 12, 2006 - 9:59 pm: |
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I have lived here for 36 years, my entire life, and never saw that marker until today when I walked by with my kids. Very funny that after looking on Maplewood On Line today this was a thread! |
Hank Zona
Supporter
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 5873
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 12, 2006 - 10:03 pm: |
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I read in a history book from the 1930s or 40s in the Maplewood Library that a hundred years ago, a stagecoach ran up Tuscan Road twice a week to connect with the main coach road, Springfield Ave. I wonder if it met at the marker (and if you needed a transfer ticket and if the curb was painted yellow). |
crossroads
Citizen
Username: Crossroads
Post Number: 150
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 7:02 am: |
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When I was a kid that old brownstone milepost (now on display at Hilton Branch Library) was located in the triangle on SA covered by brush near a telephone booth. My brother, friends and I spent a few summer days cleaning up the area. You could read the inscription "5 miles to Newark" clearly. I reckon those mileposts were the road signs of their day . |
