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The Yantecaw (or Third) River, near Bay Avenue.
 
Stone arch bridge, Franklin Avenue, about 1900.
 
Second River, Watsessing. Note that brownstones, undoubtedly locally quarried like those in the Cadmus house and other "Dutch" buildings, were used for this stone arch bridge.
 
A stone arch bridge in Brookdale, about 1900. The bridge probably dated to the days when Brookdale was called Stone House Plains.
 
Lindenmeyer Lake, about 1910, near Broad Street and Bay Avenue. This lake was previously the Morris mill pond.
 
The Morris Canal and tow path, about 19__.
 
Sledding by the Baldwin Street bridge (also known as the Old Canal bridge), about 19__.
 
Oakes Pond with Foley Field in the distance, about 1940.
 
[add pics BR70-73]
 
Oakes Pond about 1900.
 
 
Oakes Pond about 1920 [add pic from archives BR24]
 
Bay Avenue Bridge over Third River, 1908.
 
Aerial view of Bloomfield Center and the Green, about 19__.

Greater Bloomfield

These pictures were taken in Belleville more than half a century after Belleville seceded from Bloomfield, but they are included because they fairly present images that existed when Belleville was the Second River section of Bloomfield.

 

These scenes of the Second River falls [man-made, or natural?], from about 1900, were little changed from that of the early 1800s. 

 

This old factory was probably the ______, situated on the Second River. Note that the river in Second River was wider and deeper than it was in Watsessing, resulting in substantially more industry in Second River than the rest of Bloomfield.

 

Second River, Belleville.