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From: Rita Chesterton <>
Subject: [NJHUNTER] Hannah's Rock
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:54:25 -0400

Unlikely that anyone has the answer to this one, but I'll throw it out
there anyway
;o)

On the left hand side of the highway as you go UP Jugtown Moutain out of
West Portal
(that would be heading East, I suppose), there's a large boulder that
someone in the
1880's dubbed "Hannah's Rock" According to the wonderful book "One Time
Around,"
it was a place where the Irish railroad workers would assemble with
their jugs (whiskey?)
after the day's work. I am curious as to who "Hannah" may have been?
Perhaps
someone has more information regarding this rather obscure bit of West
Portal
history.

I'm especially interested because my great-grandfather Dennis Malley was
a section
foreman on the railroad at that time, probably living in the Section
Foreman's house
near the old West Portal railway station (now torn down). He married
Sarah Jane
Vliet who lived on Tunnel Avenue, just above the tunnel entrace.

Rita in Lambertville

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