LONG HILL TOWNSHIP HISTORIC SITES SURVEY STREETSCAPE SURVEY < PREVIOUS HISTORIC SITES INVENTORY #1430-77 NEXT > DISTRICT NAME: White Bridge Road DISTRICT TYPE: Streetscape MUNICIPALITY: Long Hill Township CROSS STREETS: Carleton Road to New Vernon Road COUNTY: Morris UTM REFERENCES: Zone/Northing/Easting USGS QUAD: Chatham & Bernardsville DESCRIPTION / SIGNIFICANCE   White Bridge Road was a major east-west rout skirting the southern edge of the Great Swamp in the 19th century. The road was lined with farms and a schoolhouse in 1868. By 1887 there were 8 farms, a school and a Methodist Church. The low-lying near-swampland was probably unproductive farmland, and eventually the farms were abandoned, the school and church destroyed, and not rebuilt. Township documents from around 1900 identify the school and the surrounding area as the Village of Pleasant Plains. Along this narrow country road, today there are only four surviving 19th century residences. All are frame, vernacular dwellings, no outbuildings of significance survive. PHYSICAL CONDITION OF STRUCTURES: . EXCELLENT 50% GOOD 50% FAIR . POOR REGISTER ELIGIBILITY: . YES . POSSIBLE NO . PART OF DISTRICT THREATS TO DISTRICT: . ROADS . DEVELOPMENT . ZONING .X DETERIORATION X NO THREAT .X OTHER . . . .. COMMENTS: Purchase of property for the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge has obliterated much evidence of early occupation along this road. The remaining structures are overgrown and run-down; former fields and farmland have reverted to a wild state. REFERENCES: The White Bridge looking West to Bernards Twp. (2002) White Bridge Road looking East to Pleasant Plains Road and on to Meyersville (2002) 1526 White Bridge Road "Reggies" former resort (2002) DEMOLISHED 2004 1358 White Bridge Road with farm buildings (2002) RECORDED BY: Janet W. Foster DATE: March-July 1986 ORGANIZATION: Acroterion . . UPDATED ENTRY BY: L. Fast DATE: May 2002 ORGANIZATION: Long Hill Township Historic Preservation Advisory Committee . . RETURN TO: INTRODUCTION RETURN TO: STREET & SITES INDEX RETURN TO: FILE NUMBER INDEX RETURN TO: MAP INDEX RETURN TO: BLOCK AND LOT NUMBER INDEX . . . . . < PREVIOUS HISTORIC SITES INVENTORY #1430-77 NEXT >