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Green Township Sussex County NJ from
HISTORICAL DIRECTORY OF
SUSSEX COUNTY, NJ
COMPILED BY: EDWARD A. WEBB 1872
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GREENSVILLE. This village was first settled in 1770 by the Greens and Shiners. The town was
named after Epliraim Green who erected several buildings, one of which was a tan-yard, which was opposite the present
hotel, where a barn now stands, This business was carried on suuccssfully until 1832. Mr. Amos Shiner, one of the
first settlers, erected a still-house and carried on his business, for many years, on the present site of the wheelwright
shop. GREENSVILLE UNION CHAPEL. This building was commenced in 1866, and was dedicated on the 14th of November,
of the following year. Services had been previously held in the school-house, but the accommodations both for school
and religious purposes being insufficient a united effort was made by the school board, and by the Methodists and
Presbyterians, to build a Union Chapel, which should accommodate all. This effort resulted in the erection of the
building, without delay, at a cost of about $3,500. In 1869 a bell was procured, at a cost of about $100. HUNTSVILLE. Huntsville is the name given to a small hamlet, containing not more than forty
or fifty people, on the Pequest, two miles west of Andover. It has a store, a blacksmith's and a wheelwright's
shop, a saw-mill, and a grist-mill. Recently a large substantial brick building has been erected here for a school. CANADATOWN OR TRANQUILITY. This village was named from Amos H. Canada, who settled in the locality when it
contained but two or three farm houses. It is called, by many, Tranquility, from the large Methodist Church near
by. Mr. Canada built the grist-mill, the store, and several of the dwelling houses still standing. It is on the
Pequest, about three miles south-west of Huntsville. A blacksmith's shop here does the work for Greensville as
well as for this place. HUNT'S MILLS. This is a post village, sometimes called Washington, situated in the north-western
corner, of the township. Just here the surface is very hilly, and farming operations are carried on with unusual
difficulty. The water-power, which is excellent, is used to drive two good sized mills, one for grist and the others
for lumber.
Green township has Hampton and Andover on the northeast; Byram is south-east; its south-west boundary line separates
it from Warren County; its north-west from Stillwater. The surface is uneven, but not so ragged and mountainous
as many of the surrounding townships. The Pequest River. and numerous small streams water it throughout, making
it exceedingly fertile and well suited for agricultural purposes. A low range of hills partly separate it from
Stillwater. The villages within its limits are Greensville, Huntsville, Tranquility, and Hunt's Mills.
About two years since the name of the post-office was changed to Lincoln. Originally there was an Indian settlement
near the site of the village of which nothing definite is known. The little stone building, just below the village,
on the road to Canadatown, now occupied as a dwelling-house was used until recently for the village school, 'and
had been for many generations. When the church was built a room was prepared over it for school purposes. The ruins
of Shiner's old blacksmith shop still remain. The place now contains an hotel, a wheelwright shop, a store and
shoe shop.
Tranquility Meeting-House is a large well-built edifice belonging to the Methodista. It is about two miles south
of Huntsville, and half a mile from Canadatown. It was finished in the year 1868, at a cost of about $10,000. it
is now under the pastoral care of Rev. William H. McCormick, residing at Alainuchi.
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