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Re: (erielack) Montville Station
Hi Fred,
The Montville station was built between 1901 and 1909, at least it does not
appear on any Sanborn maps prior to 1909. The earliest photo I've seen is a
1907 postcard. There is a 1928 photo in Taber's book (volume 2) that shows
a small shed type waiting room on the other side of the tracks from the
station. The shed and station are painted a light color, clearly not the
Lackawanna green even in the B&W photo. (Anybody know what the standard
structure colors were in that era?) The overpass is clearly evident in this
photo-probably added when the tracks 3 and 4 were added in 1925. Sanborn
still shows a grade crossing in the 1924 map.
By June 1971 the station was derelict, and was gone by mid 1973. My June
1971 photo of the station was published in the Diamond (Volume 15 #2).
The S B Penick plant was originally John Capstick & Sons dba as Columbia
Print Works and Globe Print Works. They were "bleachers, dyers, printers
and finishers for cotton, linen, jute and wool." Most of the mill was
destroyed by fire in 1914. The remaining buildings became the home
Montville Finish Company by 1924 and S B Pennick by 1937-again according to
the Sanborn maps. (the 1916 maps it is it as Consolidated Realty) It looks
like there were 3 long sidings serving the complex; mill pond etc. The
facilities probably extended on the other side of Taylortown Road as well.
The pre 1914 mill complex appears to be very extensive-perhaps rivaling the
Boonton Iron Works when it was in full swing.
Pete S
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