Quite often, when mentioning "High Point", the connection folks make with that name is to the High Point Country Club [HPCC] and the Golf Club located within it.
Originally opened as "Holiday Lake", it had been planned as a vacation and weekend country resort for those residing near more metropolitan areas.
Its homes were to be alongside man-made lakes, where once a free-flowing brook had flowed across adjacent farms.
In time, it evolved into a year-round residential community and was renamed as Canyon Ridge Country Club, prior to becoming HPCC.
The true owner of the name is New Jersey's highest elevation at 1803 feet, located near Montague's boundary with Wantage - situated high up on the mountain and visible to those in NJ, NY and PA. The High Point monument stands by that spot, within a state park bearing the same name - created in the early 1920's.
High Point Monument was erected through the generosity of Col. and Mrs Anthony R. Kuser, and was dedicated with great fanfare on June 21, 1930.
The monument was dedicated "to the glory and honor and eternal memory of New Jersey heroes by land and sea and air in all wars of our country".
