2010 Senior Volunteers of the Year

Ruth Owen - Past President of Montague's Sr. Citizen Club

&

Joe Lashendock - active volunteer on the County level

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An extra special exhibit by J.W. Carpenter was featured on  about antique bicycles - one example shown.

 

As you drive from the Nelden-Roberts Stonehouse on Rote 206 to the Foster-Armstrong House .. you can pull over to read the historic marker placed alongside CR 521 North ; located just across from a traffic triangle where Route 206 and River Rd. intersect.

If you turn around to look towards the bridge approach, you can view this marker noting the actual location of the "Brick House".

There is an exhibit dedicated to the Brick House, its village, and the many structures lost - first to the bridge project and then to Tocks Island acquisitions, at the Foster-Armstrong site.

Montague Grange's display took 1st place!

Stanley B. Roberts, one of the original founding members, was recalled in a display about the history of the Sussex County Farm and Horse Show.

His large Montague farm was acquired as part of the Tocks Island project.

The Fair!

Back in 1869, Montague hosted its own horse fair!

Excerpt from Evening Gazette

about Railroads & Montague....

Most folks are aware that the Erie Railroad ran through nearby Port Jervis, and that it succeeded the D&H Canal for the movement of goods and produce.

But....

did you know that in July of 1873, the Eastern Division of the Erie RR proposed a railroad route following Clove Brook through Montague?

Can you only imagine how different the township would appear today.. and how the peaceful and tranquil scene between Zitone's Field and the Westfall Farm would have looked instead,

had railroad tracks crossed this valley?

Though spared the invasion of the rails, Montague did depend on its nearby connections - to the Erie RR, and also the Sussex Railroad - which came up to Branchville, NJ.