Snufftown-Stockholm
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briansnat
N 41° 05.360 W 074° 30.730
18T E 540972 N 4548788
The sign marks what once was known as the village of Snufftown in Sussex County.
Waymark Code: WMB1EJ
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 03/23/2011
Views: 4
Marker Name: Snufftown-Stockhilm
Marker Type: Local? Unofficial
Marker text:
Settled c.1750. Named from early inhabitants fondness of snuff tobacco or perhaps because "snuff" was a euphemism for liquor. Windham, Stockholm and other important forges produced iron goods. Paterson & Hamburg Turnpike (organized here 1806) brought trade and hotels. New Jersey Midland Railroad (1873) took "Stockholm" (originally a hamlet one mile eastward) for its station name, which gradually replaced "Snufftown". Much of village razed following establishment of Newark's Pequannock Watershed c 1900. Stockholm Methodist Church is listed on the state and national registers of historic places. Stockholm school, later municipal building (1882) is another landmark
Dedication Date: 01/01/2010
City: Stockholm
County: Sussex
Group responsible for placement: Sussex County Historic Marker Committee
Web Link: [Web Link]
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