Boonton

In 1830, Isaac S. Lyon wrote, Boonton was one of the wildest, rockiest, briariest and most romantic places that the mind of man could imagine. More than a century later, a visitor told his wife, May, you should see that town of Boonton. The whole Main Street is on a hill. I never saw a town with a Main Street on a hill. These were the first impressions of a town built upon the foundation of its ironworks and iron town, populated by hardy, self-reliant men and women. Among the earliest immig...