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The Houdaille Quarry is a 120-acre (49 ha) former rock quarry located in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey bordering the northern edge of the Baltusrol Golf Club. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Bisected by Interstate 78 , it is directly east of the Watchung Reservation and touches the Summit border as well as Hidden Valley Park.
Native Americans are known to have used this quarry.[2] A study of the site conducted in the mid-1980s concluded that the quarry was probably worked in an organized manner, to produce containers in a variety of size. Items made from this quarry have been found across southern New England."
The M. C. Mulligan & Sons Quarry is a 8.8-acre (3.6 ha) historic district encompassing a former limestone quarry located at 56 Main Street in the town of Clinton in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 1994, for its significance in agriculture, commerce, and industry.
The Jean and Ric Edelman Fossil Park, located in Mantua Township, New Jersey, consists of a 66-million-year-old 6-inch (150 mm) bone bed set into a 65-acre (26 ha) former marl quarry. [1] It is currently the only facility east of the Mississippi River that has an active open quarry for public Community Dig Days. [ 2 ]
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This included the body of the grandfather of Patrick Andriani, a New Jersey native, who was the impetus for the disinterment and reinternment of bodies to Maple Grove Park Cemetery in Hackensack, NJ. When the graves were discovered, they were tested and found to have come from the facilities. Records of the mental hospital were also discovered.
In 1985, the Kaufmans sold the 2,000-acre (8.1 km 2) quarry to investors who filled in and developed the quarry for residential use, including Marble Cliff Commons [6] [2] [3] apartments and Marble Cliff Crossing, a 100 single-family and 60 double-family subdivision built between 1998 and 2003. [7]
The reservoir itself, which is dammed from the Manasquan River, is operated by the New Jersey Water Supply Authority, which is a part of the much larger Raritan Basin Watershed. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The nature trails circling around the reservoir are what makes this county park as one of the most popular hiking destinations in Central New Jersey , [ 7 ...