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If you haven't lived in NJ long enough, you probably wouldn't know this. I noticed that NJ has a lot of "hidden gems" that aren't well documented or at least not shown on the internet. Some of these secrets can be either historical, stuff that doesn't have history behind it, and some cannot be physical.
1. An abandoned lean-to in the middle of the woods in Lurker Park, East Hanover (probably the Patriot's Path Trail touches that area). I can't even find one piece of information on this on the internet. How weird and it makes me wonder why it's really there. I assume it's some abandoned camp that military people stayed in.
2. Nike Missile Base in East Hanover. You can at least find some information on this online, but not too much.
3. My brother said that his high school teacher said Hitler had knowledge about East Hanover although it is not a well known town. You can't find that piece of information on the internet at all!!
4. Riker Hill Art Park in Livingston is a park that is known and it's not a secret, however, there are some weird things about the place that you can't find explanations to online unless you actually were alive and involved with the park in its historical days.
5. Weather apps have mistakened my phone that my location is "Beaufort, NJ" and Beaufort does not even exist in NJ. There are unincorporated towns (unreal towns) in NJ, but are usually well known such as Vauxhaull (part of three different towns) and Shongum (part of Randolph). Beaufort is not even known at all. Apparently, it was some abandoned railroad station in Roseland, but I don't know why it's sometimes recognized by our phones as a town. There is not a lot of information on the internet about this.
6. A weird super mini mini-golf course in the middle of the woods of Mountain Way Park in Morris Plains. It's so weird that it's even there though.
7. There is some weird golf tool in the middle of the woods of Mountain Way Park in Morris Plains. It's a medal pole with chains attached all around it. I have no clue what it is.
2. Nike Missile Base in East Hanover. You can at least find some information on this online, but not too much.
I thought the base was gone, they built condos on it. The radar site on Riker Hill is pretty well known; the radars are gone but the now-rusty tracks they rode on are still there.
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3. My brother said that his high school teacher said Hitler had knowledge about East Hanover although it is not a well known town. You can't find that piece of information on the internet at all!!
4. Riker Hill Art Park in Livingston is a park that is known and it's not a secret, however, there are some weird things about the place that you can't find explanations to online unless you actually were alive and involved with the park in its historical days.
Yeah, that was the radar and control site for the Nike silos. The artist's buildings are the military originals.
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5. Weather apps have mistakened my phone that my location is "Beaufort, NJ" and Beaufort does not even exist in NJ. There are unincorporated towns (unreal towns) in NJ
Unincorporated towns are not "unreal"; the census recognizes them as "census designated places". Beaufort wasn't that, though. The Beaufort station and parking lot still exist, and the line is still in use for freight. If you check old maps, you can see that Beaufort Avenue was the road which extended from Livingston Circle to Eagle Rock Road. Both ends now are cut off by Eisenhower Parkway,
One of the slight oddities in that general vicinity that I've always wondered about is exit 4 on Rt. 280. It's a full cloverleaf, but Eisenhower Parkway dies out about a half mile north of 280. Doesn't seem to even peter out into local roads, just dies in an office park. I'm guessing Eisenhower Parkway was originally supposed to continue further but funding or local resistance halted its development. Just odd that the corporate park gets its own exit.
The state and feds mislabel rivers to the consternation of the DEP who limits fishing on certain rivers during stocking schedule. a real gem of an example of known problems that go unaddressed.
7. There is some weird golf tool in the middle of the woods of Mountain Way Park in Morris Plains. It's a medal pole with chains attached all around it. I have no clue what it is.
It's a disc golf course, one of many courses in the area. Just played at Harry Dunham park yesterday. Lots of people were on the course. It's a nice free activity (once you buy the discs, or pick them up for free from the municipal building).
I agree with you on the hidden gems though. If I were to hazard a guess, I think it's because NJ is very localized. You know and care about the parks and amenities in your specific town that you pay taxes in and maybe you'll check out some neighboring towns but not too far unless you're specifically looking for something.
3. My brother said that his high school teacher said Hitler had knowledge about East Hanover although it is not a well known town. You can't find that piece of information on the internet at all!!
The Nazis did have LBI mapped out, after the war some of them even knew all the streets. I'm assuming it was a targeted area for landing their troops for a US invasion.
Wow, this is the first I have heard about this course, and in the almost 20 years that I have been away from that area, I am totally shocked. I have since taken this pastime up, it's a lot of fun!
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