Mountain Lakes station
This property included land owned by Hero Bull, a former slave and landowner living in Rockaway Township.[7] Service from the main line at Denville to the station at Boonton began on September 5, 1867 as part of a freight bypass being built through Morris, Passaic and Bergen counties.The station served as a junction for a switch to the spur from the Boonton Branch to ice houses in Fox Hill Lakes.[10] The Fox Hill station also served as the western terminus of a new alignment of the Boonton Branch built in 1897 to remove a reverse curve in the area.[11] Herbert Hapgood, a local entrepreneur who built the Shoreham section of Brookhaven, New York, opened an inn near the Boonton Branch tracks on Newark Turnpike near modern-day Crane Road.Hapgood decided to build a new community in Boonton Township, creating a company named Mountain Lakes, Incorporated.[14] In order to gain approval for the closure of the Fox Hill station, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities required the state and railroad follow several requests in June 1912.The railroad would have to continue maintenance of the Fox Hill station under construction of Mountain Lakes' new depot would be complete.
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