1953 Map of Hackettstown

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The Musconetcong River valley defines this mid-century landscape, anchoring the bustling borough of Hackettstown. As a regional hub for education and industry, the town is home to Centenary College and a prominent Town Hall, with the Delaware Lackawanna and Western RR providing critical transportation links. Outside the borough, the landscape shifts toward large-scale conservation and recreation, marked by the extensive State Fish Hatchery and the State Game Farm. To the south, the terrain rises into Schooleys Mountain, where rural life is captured through scattered settlements like Drakestown and Pleasant Grove. The South Br Raritan River winds through the southern valleys, passing through Middle Valley and Long Valley, where the Central Railroad of New Jersey follows the water's edge. This 1953 culture revision reveals a period when aviation was taking root in rural Warren and Morris Counties, evidenced by both the Budd Lake Airfield and the Hackettstown Airfield.