Pahaquarry Township, New Jersey

[6] Millbrook Village, located along the historic Old Mine Road in Pahaquarry, was home to the Van Campen family farmsteads built during the late-18th and 19th-centuries.

Other buildings have been moved from other sites or are newly built to help depict village life in the valley during the late-19th and early-20th century.

Teachers, who were paid poorly, boarded with local families and seldom stayed more than a year or two.

Most of its land was purchased by the federal government during the late 1960s in order to build the proposed Tocks Island Dam along the river, and its population was reduced to only a handful of people.

Grassroot environmental organizations and mass local opposition put a halt to these plans and the dam was never completed.

[4] Mayor Jean Zipser and Harold Van Campen, the only 2 township residents eligible to be members of the Township Committee, met inside the Calno School and voted 2-0 to permit the dissolution to proceed in March 1997; an April 1997 New York Times article covering the vote brought national attention to Pahaquarry and its population of six residents.

A view at Pahaquarric, Sussex County, New Jersey , engraved by John Scoles c. 1794
Adit No. 1 at Pahaquarry Copper Mine, established c. 1750
Millbrook School, as seen August 1970
Millbrook Methodist Episcopal Church, as seen August 1970
Map of New Jersey highlighting Warren County