| Author | Message | ||
     crossroads Citizen Username: Crossroads Post Number: 4 Registered: 12-2001 |
Does anyone remember the "5 miles to Newark" stone mile post that was located at the Springfield Avenue triangle by Maplecrest Park? | ||
| toad Real Name Username: Toad Post Number: 73 Registered: 6-2001 |
I think it's on the Springfield Ave. side of the Hilton Branch library. | ||
| Nohero Citizen Username: Nohero Post Number: 1178 Registered: 5-2001  |
Yup, it's right in front of the library (at least, it was there this morning). | ||
| crossroads Citizen Username: Crossroads Post Number: 7 Registered: 12-2001  |
So it's still there after all these years! I'll have to check that out on my next Maplewood visit. | ||
| joso Citizen Username: Joso Post Number: 53 Registered: 5-2001 |
Speaking of old stone posts, does anyone know the origin/purpose of the square granite markers at the corners of many streets in South Orange (the older areas around Prospect Street and 5th through 2nd Streets is where I have seen them)? They tend to be adjacent to the sidewalks, projecting just a few inches above the surface. | ||
| wharfrat Citizen Username: Wharfrat Post Number: 681 Registered: 6-2001 |
If they have a cross in the middle of then I think they are used for land survey. | ||
| kmk Citizen Username: Kmk Post Number: 148 Registered: 5-2001 |
They are little steps used to give you a "leg up" as you get into your horse drawn buggy or (I suppose) early model car. You see them all over historic villages like Mystic, CT usually in front of the larger houses. | ||
| kathy Citizen Username: Kathy Post Number: 473 Registered: 5-2001 |
What Joso is describing is, I think, the small (maybe 4-5 inches square) markers that mark property boundaries. The ones in my neighborhood have a round metal piece less than an inch in diameter set into the middle of the top. They tend to be at the corner of the property at the inside edge of the sidewalk. My property only has one on one side because it was subdivided after the markers were put in. The stones used to get up into carriages are larger (more like a foot by a foot and a half) and likely to be found in the middle of a property next to the curb. My next-door neighbor has one. | ||
| jamie Moderator Username: Jamie Post Number: 206 Registered: 6-2001 |
Crossroads - here's a pic:  | ||
| crossroads Citizen Username: Crossroads Post Number: 8 Registered: 12-2001 |
Wow! Thanks Jamie. I remember the original brown sandstone milepost that was hidden in the brush. I'm glad to see it this piece of history remembered this way. | ||
| extuscan Citizen Username: Extuscan Post Number: 151 Registered: 6-2001 |
5 miles to Newark... That is of course not the original. Where did that one end up? -John | ||
| rachael Citizen Username: Rachael Post Number: 16 Registered: 7-2001 |
It might be inside the library in Maplecrest. There is one in a glass case in the entry hallway. | ||
| crossroads Citizen Username: Crossroads Post Number: 12 Registered: 12-2001 |
Well I made a trip to Maplewood last weekend from Maine. I stopped by the Hilton Branch library. What memories! The original old mile post is on display in the rear lobby entrance along with some other items of local history. Glad to see it on display this way. |
