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This site incorporates the mining ruins, hiking trails, and nearby waterfalls, and is located within the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and administered by the National Park Service. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as a contributing property to the Old Mine Road Historic District .
Old Mine Road today is a two-lane paved road from Delaware Water Gap to Port Jervis. There is a campground at Worthington State Forest about six miles north of the gap. The land is farmed with cornfields along the road in certain areas. The rest of the area is forest or fields.
Van Campen's Inn or Isaac Van Campen Inn is a fieldstone residence that was used as a yaugh house during the American colonial era. Located in Walpack Township, Sussex County, New Jersey along the Delaware River, it is a historic site located along the Old Mine Road in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
Part of the $11 million project to upgrade Old Mine Road within the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area includes expanding and improving turnoffs at the entrance to the park.
It would later become the route of the Old Mine Road and stretches of present-date U.S. Route 209. Several amateur historians refer to a "company of Dutch miners" building the Old Mine Road and establishing a copper mine near the Delaware Water Gap circa 1640, citing it as the first
The Old Mine Road is a 104-mile (167 km) long stretch of roads that connect from the Hudson River by Kingston, New York to the Delaware River in Sussex and Warren counties. [6] This district is a linear district along a 26-mile (42 km) section of the Old Mine Road in Sussex and Warren counties.
Highland Copper, the Canadian company behind the mine, has leased the mineral rights to a 3.5 square mile area where it estimates it will extract nearly 65 million pounds of copper over the course ...
Copper mining began in the 1750s at the Pahaquarry Copper Mine, which is 8 miles (13 km) north of the Gap, off Old Mine Road. [2] This mine is located in the Silurian High Falls Formation on the west side of the mountain. This sandstone is very hard and made mining very difficult. The copper was between 2 and 3 percent in the ore which made ...