Walpack Is A Tiny Slice Of Historic NJ
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2017
- Deep in the woods and mountains of northwest New Jersey, up a long dirt road from the scenic Buttermilk Falls, sits the state's third-smallest municipality.
Walpack Township NJ boasts a population of 15, a small town permanently shrunk to a tiny size 50 years ago after the Army Corps of Engineers displaced residents for a dam that was never built.
"We don't have a police department, a fire department, a road department. We don't have anything like that," said Jim Heigis, the owner of the Walpack Inn who is also one of three members of the township committee. "But that's OK. We really don't need it."
Heigis' inn could see over 1,000 patrons come in and out on a busy weekend, enjoying food, drinks and the comfort of seating areas featuring hand-carved coffee tables.
But the abandoned buildings in Walpack Center, which serves as the township's downtown, have earned Walpack the nickname "the town that time forgot."
I used to work there!! Jim was one of the best bosses I’ve ever worked for. It’s a very demanding place but for good reason it’s great. I was a dishwasher and would help in the line.
Miss that town. Once walked home from there to Flatbrookville and not one car passed by in the 1960's. Dad was eventually bought out for the dam.
I wish I could live in one of those neighbor-free and secluded places. Wallpack all the same is quite close to many stores and bigger municipalities in NJ, PA and even the great NYC. So, you feel kind of cabin fever, you may go for a ride in a bigger place.
But with my work, that requires only high-speed internet, mobile phone and just 2-3 appearances at the office per week in Morristown, that would be a nice place. No neighbors, no noise and light pollution. Virgin starlit sky and moon during nighttime, taking dinner outside, watching movies even at night with any volume I want without disturbing neighbors. I would move with pleasure in one of those places.
I worked at Walpack Inn. 🙂
They made the best homemade bread.
How was the commute 😂
You have the National Park and Volunteers and a lot of visitors that abuse the place...My sister lived in Wallpack at Silver Spray for about 10 years then wallpack had population 7...including some Law Enforcement Rangers until silly things happened to the Park service not in its best interest...
All of Wallpack would have been under 75K acres of recreational water.
That's our government at its best! Sad.