State park in New Jersey, United States
Allamuchy Mountain State Park
is located in
Allamuchy Township
and
Byram Township
in the
Allamuchy Mountain
region of
New Jersey
. The park is operated and maintained by the
New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry
. There are more than 20 miles (32 km) of unmarked trails in the northern section of Allamuchy, and 14 miles (23 km) of marked multi-use trails.
The park is in the
Northeastern coastal forests
ecoregion
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The 2,440 acres (9.9 km
2
) of mixed oak and hardwood forests and maintained fields of this natural area display various stages of
succession
. It is situated on the
Musconetcong River
.
Waterloo Village
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Waterloo Village
has exhibits from many different time periods from a 400-year-old
Lenape
(Delaware)
Native American
village to a port along the once prosperous
Morris Canal
. The early 19th-century village contains a working mill with gristmills and sawmills, a general store, a blacksmith shop and restored houses.
Sussex Branch Trail
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The
Sussex Branch Trail
, a
rail trail
on the former
Sussex Railroad
, has a trail head on Waterloo Road. It travels 3 miles (4.8 km) to Cranberry Lake.
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Rutherfurd-Stuyvesant Estate
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The Rutherfurd-Stuyvesant Estate dates back to the 1700s and featured a large mansion and many outbuildings. By the mid 20th century, the mansion had burned down and the remaining buildings were in very poor condition. In the 1960s, the estate was purchased by the State to build route 80, which divided sections of the estate with an eight-lane highway. In the 1970s, the Allamuchy Mountain land became part of Allamuchy Mountain State Park. Tranquillity Farms, on the other side of the highway, remains a privately operated commercial farm.
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Locally, the ruins of the Rutherfurd-Stuyvesant Estate have become known as "Profanity House" because many of the buildings and ruins have been vandalized and covered in explicit and graphic graffiti. In recent years, the estate has suffered from arson damage.
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