This old cross buck on Fort Dix St. in Pemberton, NJ, most likely would have been taken down when the tracks were removed but for the survival of the North Pemberton railroad station (out of the picture to the right) as a museum. |
"28 miles from New York" proclaims this milestone on Broadway in Sleepy Hollow (formerly North Tarrytown), NY. The stone is apparently sinking as the mileage is only half visible. |
These old embossed signs are located about 8 miles apart on US 46 East (there is a similar Main Ave. sign on the westbound side) in northern New Jersey. When a bypass around Clifton was constructed on US 46, several roads, including Main Ave., were elevated over the highway with access via local streets. I don't know why the names are off center on this sign. There used to be a similar set of signs at the Lakeview Ave. overpass which were properly aligned. There was a direct exit to Teaneck Rd., which has been altered with the construction first of the New Jersey Turnpike, which originally ended at the interchange in the distance, then of I-95, so that sign may have marked a bus stop; there are stairs ascending to the highway from Teaneck Rd. |
This old directional in Warwick, MA, has been well preserved. I don't know how old it is. |
Tradition has it that the town of Mineral Point, WI, was originally called Shake Rag because at meal time the wives of the Cornish lead miners would shake white cloths to let their husbands working the mine windlass know that it was time to come home to eat. |