Waterloo Village is a restored 19th century canal town in Byram Township, Sussex County (west of Stanhope) in northwestern New Jersey and was approximately the half-way point in the roughly 102-mile (165 km) trip along the Morris Canal, which ran from Jersey City (across the Hudson River from Manhattan, New York) to Phillipsburg, New Jersey, US (across the Delaware River from Easton, Pennsylvania). Waterloo possessed all the accommodations necessary to service the needs of a canal operation, including an inn, a general store, a church, a blacksmith shop (to service the mules on the canal), and a watermill. For canal workers, Waterloo's geographic location would have been conducive to being an overnight stopover point on the two-day trip between Phillipsburg and Jersey City, New Jersey.
It is currently an open air museum in Allamuchy Mountain State Park, Stanhope, New Jersey. Due to budget and management issues, it is only open on a limited basis.
Read more about Waterloo Village: Canal and Railroad Eras, Unheralded Saviors, Rebirth, Controversy, Downfall, and Closure, 2012 Season, Movie Set
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