Introduction
Chester House (1)
Chester House (2)
Chester House (3)
Chester House (4)
Chester House (5)
Chester Road Hotel
Chester School
Chester Volunteer Fire Company
Cross Roads Schoolhouse
Crystal Lake
Culvert over Black River
East Main Street
Entrance to Hacklebarney State Park
Federated Church
Grove Street
Leck’s Luncheonette
M.E. Church
Methodist Church
Milltown Bridge
Muskrat Inn
Muskrat Valley
Pleasant Hill Cemetery
Presbyterian Church
Ralston
R.R. Station
Square and Mill Street, German Valley
St. Lawrence the Martyr
The Institute Boarding House
Welcome Home Farm

R.R. Station

R.R. Station, Chester, N.J., postcard, undated.

Best known as Muskrat Depot, the Chester Railroad Station was built to help the Chester Railroad Company transport iron ore from the mines to the furnace, and on to other destinations. The company was a part of the Morris & Essex Railroad, which eventually became the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad (the D.L.&W.) line. Daniel Budd, the state director of the Camden and Amboy Railroad, wanted the railroad to travel through Chester’s Main Street, behind his hotel, but it was built one mile outside of town.

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