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The Folly

The Natirar estate included historically important areas that long predated the early 20th century country estate era.  Lying deep under the Peapack-Far Hills Road — where New Jersey Transit’s Gladstone Branch line also passes under the road — are the now-closed-off entrances to a tunnel long known as the “Folly.”   The tunnel was excavated

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Hartfeld House

During the 1930s and 40s, Burnt Mills in Bedminster boasted a summer hotel, the Hartfeld House, run by Solomon Hartfeld / Hartfield (1866-1947) and his son Isadore (1890-1976), Jewish immigrants from Austria.  The hotel was built on the old Paulison farm along the North Branch of the Raritan River, above the current Burnt Mills Road

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