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The Lackawanna Cutoff NJ33 Print E-mail
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Picture Courtesy of Cheryl Delea

The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad started construction on an eleven million dollar connection between Port Morris and Columbia, NJ in 1910. Completed within less than two years, it was an engineering marvel of its time, given that it was built without earth-moving machinery, and its use of reinforced concrete. During the Cut-Off's construction, the railroad purchased the original Huntsville Schoolhouse and built a new structure, rather than change the alignment of the rail line. As construction progressed, the old schoolhouse was buried under tons of rock, to the sound of cheering school children who watched from a distant hillside.
Sussex County Board of Chosen Freeholders and Sussex County Historic Marker Committee 2003
Sussex County Route 517 in Andover Borough Sussex County New Jersey
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