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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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