found a cool picture

[RICKJJ59W]

ORIGINAL: JOETHECROW

ORIGINAL: nargo

While reading online about the Morris Canal that ran all over this area,I saw this picture.. if you notice in the background it's the Bowden Bottling Works in Boonton NJ.. I never saw a picture of the place and I have two Blobs from there.

Cool old picture for sure....

yep cool pic I saved it. I have a section on my site for old pix. Reminds me of the canal in my town.

 

[zecritr]

cool pics all
had to save the first one also.

 

[cowseatmaize]

Growing up in the 60's and 70's and being both a bottle collector and an environmentalist I often wondered about reservoirs. I know the either moved whole or dismantled most of the buildings and relocated as many graves as were known but what about the dumps. They were probably just left, so what happened to them? Were bottles bobbing around for years? Did they collect what the could or as I suspect, just wait for them to gather at the dams edge and sink? What a place for divers!!! How about the the toxins like heavy metals etc.? How many years was the water, by today's standards, unfit for consumption?
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Probably a lot safer than they got in the 60's and 70's.[][][][][][]

 

[zecritr]

or there ae pockets of toxins in the reservoirs just a waiting to pop someday,scary

 

[ironmountain]

nice pics and backstory..thanks for sharing.

 

[myersdiggers1998]

Thanks for the link E , I just never knew they did that with barges onto rails thingy.

 

[nargo]

Epackage,That last pic is that the mill that is the condos now?...Southern Mane diver...Not sure about the Boonton reservoir,but I'm sure it's true...I know that there is an old mining town under the Canastear reservoir in Vernon

 

[nargo]

Thus is the site I found the picture http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njmorris/morriscanal/index.htm

 

[epackage]

The condos that occupy the old Beatties Mills factories would be to the right of the pic, you can't see them in that pic. The buildings you see are for the Passaic Valley Water Works, most if not all are still there...[]

 

[epackage]

Here are the buildings you see from the Morris Canal bridge in 1906...