The Tunnel opened December 24th 1911 and was patroled by watchmen working couple hour shifts. The tunnel would allow for a speeds of 70mph. Ice Tunnel got it's name because no matter the time of year it has a cooler temperature then the surrounding outside temperature. During the winter months this leads to giant ice crystals to hang down from the ceiling!
Lost in Northern NJ
Abandoned lost weird places in northen new jersey
Thursday, August 2, 2012
The Ice Tunnel
The Ice Tunnel also more commonly named Roseville is located right behind C.O. Johnson park, which lays on the boder of Forset Lakes. This tunnel was part of the Lackawanna railroad which streched from Hoboken NJ to Buffalo NY, the tracks were abandoned in 1983. The track area is no longer in use but the tunnel in which the train use to go through still has pieces of the track.

The Tunnel opened December 24th 1911 and was patroled by watchmen working couple hour shifts. The tunnel would allow for a speeds of 70mph. Ice Tunnel got it's name because no matter the time of year it has a cooler temperature then the surrounding outside temperature. During the winter months this leads to giant ice crystals to hang down from the ceiling!
The Tunnel opened December 24th 1911 and was patroled by watchmen working couple hour shifts. The tunnel would allow for a speeds of 70mph. Ice Tunnel got it's name because no matter the time of year it has a cooler temperature then the surrounding outside temperature. During the winter months this leads to giant ice crystals to hang down from the ceiling!
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Hamburg Paper Mill
When we were looking for the Ginger Bread Castle we saw this giant smoke stack sticking out of the woods from a distance. I remember exactly saying "Bobby we should go! that probably has an interesting story." We set out through a new housing development and into the woods on the side. We were only a little into the woods and we had to find a way down the side of this steep cliff with loose rocks. As we got down we came upon the first part of a structure.
After walking along side the cliff we got down to notice down more graffiti.
This building structure was the old remembrances of the Hamburg Paper Mill. The Mill was from the late 19th century and offered many locals full time employment and farmers money during the winter giving them straw to keep the mill running. However the Mill had its problems having multiple fires and flooded from the dam and creek nearby.
To get across the river running through we tight roped walked across a beam that ran above it. About halfway through I stopped to snap that picture of the river running down underneath us, it was kind of scary looking down as it was about a twenty foot drop onto sharp rocks!
As we crossed the river we had to jump over some little gap in the foundation then we came across the smoke stack I original spotted and what we set out to find!
Camp Nordland
Little bridge thing we had to cross to get over a little stream/mud |
abandoned near the abbey
The same day we had traveled to the Edison Mines someone we were with had said something about an old abandoned house near Saint Paul's Abbey. Saint Paul's Abbey was founded in 1924 by missionaries that had just coming over from Germany and East Africa. The main purpose of the setting up of the Abbey was to teach American Monks how to run a proper monastery, note the house you will see pictures of is not actually part of the Abbey but it is close by. To this day the monks who live there continue to take missions to Africa, also the Abbey is now home to Newton High School's Soccer and Lacrosse teams. During the winter seasons you may be use to a ton of cars parked there as the Abbey is a cut down your own Christmas tree farm.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
In search of the GingerBread

This paradise for little children was created back in the early 1900's and even when the man who originally planned for it to be built sold the mill next door he refused to sell this place. When children are young parents read them stories of fairy tales and girl's dream to become princesses. This really made you feel like you were in one of those stories, as soon as you walked up to the gate there was a giant story book, where most people would take their picture. Sitting on the wall right outside the is no other then humpty dumpty who had to be put back together. Now over 70 years later when I went searching for this wonderland humpty dumpty sat there still sitting on his wall.
Visitors to the park could have the option of being led on a tour by Hansel and Gretel. It was truly a place where all the fairy tales came true, kid's could even walk by statues of beloved characters such as Cinderella and snow white.
However when the place started to be to much to keep up they closed down for business. Then the park became a seasonal place used for haunted hay rides till a fire made it close down for good. My old high school cross country coach told me at one of our practices that they also tried making it into a club, I have yet to find that story anywhere else but I guess I will keep searching!
Many of the caves or shafts that we had found had been flooded over, slowly over time collecting water. Most were not accessible to people.
There is a fence around the deep holes for people's protecting, I advise if you want a closer look to make sure you are not on the lip of the drop it is loose gravel. We think this deep hole was used as one of the old elevator shafts, we aren't completely positive however.
This mine that was low to the ground was accesible to crawl in although there are pictures of us inside of it I would not reccomend it. It is very narrow and over 100 years old and could fall at anytime. The cave came to an end about 100 feet into the end.
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