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From: "D. Bowers" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Riegelsville?
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:46:15 -0500
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Hi all,

Riegelsville, NJ is in POHATCONG township. I currently live in the township
and our historic preservation commission was working on saving the company
store of the mill a few years ago. Last time I passed through (within the
last month) the store was still there, though in rough shape. We are in
WARREN county. Holland Township is one of our neighboring township in
HUNTERDON county.

Dana B.


----- Original Message -----
From: "hoffmanmk" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Riegelsville?


> My two cents, based on growing up in the area.
>
> Riegelsville was the site of one of the Riegel Paper Corporation's paper
mills--there were also mills in Milford, Warren Glen, and Hughesville all on
the New Jersey side of the Delaware River.
>
> Once the largest employer in the area south of Phillipsburg, the paper
plants are not what they used to be. In fact, the Riegelsville NJ plant
closed then burned down several years ago. A brother and our father worked
in the Milford plant for a combined total of 75 years but the paper mills
have been repeatedly sold, downsized, etc. Paper mills need water in their
manufacturing processes and to dispose of waste. As these plants and
> other industries have closed, costing lots of jobs, the river quality has
dramatically improved and shad in now quite plentiful in the river.
>
> I am sure that Riegelsville NJ is an unincorporated town and has no
government. Last summer, it looked like there were no more than 30 houses
in the immediate area on the (free) Riegelvsille Bridge and the remnants of
the paper mill.
>
> The Hunterdon-Warren County lines pass through that area and just north of
the plant site (at the bridge) you are in Warren County and Lopatcong
Township. South of that point you are in Hunterdon County and Holland
Township.
>
> On the Pennsylvania side of the river, Rieglesville PA, is a prosperous
borough. There is a post office, bank, "hotel", eating establishments and,
I think two churches, as well as probably 150 or more homes. There is a
fire station and a rescue squad. PA 611, taking all the southbound truck
traffic (off old US 22 and now I-78) to various river towns, passes through
Riegelsville PA. On the New Jersey side of the river there is no good
> road south of Riegelsville NJ and in fact there is an area called the
narrows where two cars can pass but very slowly. There is a weight limit on
the bridge and bridge police to enforce it.
>
> A nearly abandoned link of the old Belvidere-Delaware rail line runs on
the New Jersey side of the river carrying local freight almost as far south
as Frenchtown. There were plans to start a rail museum in Phillipsburg and
have excursion passenger service run south from Phillipsburg through
Riegelsville. I do not know if this is still in the works.
>
> My brother owned property just north of Riegelsville NJ. Lopatcong
Township and/or the State of New Jersey a year or so ago bought it for
recreation purposes. There are sheer cliffs for rock climbing, nesting
areas for eagles, and a deep swimming hole in the Delaware that people whom
he described as "hippies" swung out from a tree to drop into. The area is
rich in Indian arrow heads and artifacts that have been carbon dated as
being
> thousands of years old. Ducks and geese on the Delaware at Riegelsville
is pretty site.
>
> So much for my walk down memory lane. Back to work I either have too much
free time or too much work to do.
>
> Marvin Hoffman
> Boone, NC
>
> William Hartman wrote:
>
> > Marilyn,
> >
> > There is a Riegelsville in PA and in NJ:
> >
> > From: Hunterdon County Place Names, Phyllis B. D'Autrechy, Published by
Hunterdon County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Flemington, New Jersey.
Copyright 199
> >
> > "RIEGELSVILLE, Holland Township. A ferry operated between the two towns
of Riegelsville on opposite sides of the Delaware River. The name "Shenk's
Ferry" was sometimes used before 1806 for the owner of the Pennsylvania side
ferry. Benjamin Riegel bought out Shenk and the Jersey side of the river
became permanently Riegelsville. The ferry was replaced by the first bridge
built here in 1837. (Easton Express, 24 Sept. 1984; Docket 2713)"
> >
> > and
> >
> > "SHANKS FERRY, Holland Township. The ferry here dated to colonial times
but was superseded by the Riegelsville-Delaware Bridge. (Snell: 428)"
> >
> > Riegelsville is approximately 9 miles North of Frenchtown along the
Delaware River and lies just north of the Musconetcong River which I assumed
put it in Warren County. Troubled by this, I called (today: 1/21/02) the
Hunterdon County Clerk's Office and the Holland Township Clerk's Office and
both said that Riegelsville was in Warren County!
> >
> > "The definitive answer [but is anything really definitive?] !!!!!"
> >
> > Regards, Bill
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "msouders" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 8:33 AM
> > Subject: [NJHUNTER] Riegelsville?
> >
> > > This is a question that's bothered me for a while:
> > >
> > > In what township and county are:
> > > Riegelsville, NJ
> > > Riegelsville, PA
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Marilyn
> > >
> > >
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