Waterloo Village, New Jersey

Waterloo Village is a restored 19th-century canal town in Byram Township, Sussex County (west of Stanhope) in northwestern New Jersey, United States. The community was approximately the half-way point in the roughly 102 miles (164 km) trip along the Morris Canal, which ran from Jersey City (across the Hudson River from Manhattan, New York) to Phillipsburg, New Jersey, (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.

Waterloo Village
Canal Museum, Canal Society of New Jersey, 2018
Waterloo Village
Waterloo Village
Waterloo Village
LocationByram Township, New Jersey
Coordinates40°54′56″N 74°45′22″W
Area70 acres (28 ha)
Built1820
Architectural styleLate Victorian
NRHP reference No.77000909 (original)
15000176 (increase)
NJRHP No.2593
Significant dates
Added to NRHPSeptember 13, 1977
Boundary increaseApril 28, 2015
Designated NJRHPFebruary 3, 1977

It is currently an open-air museum in Allamuchy Mountain State Park. As part of the State Park, it is open to the public from sunrise to sunset. The village was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 13, 1977.

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