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The Lehigh & Hudson River Railroad was the smallest of the anthracite coal railroads that proliferated across the Northeast. In 1886, it built a passenger station at this site, and a freight house was added in 1906 to serve busy farmers and later became a National and State Historic Landmark. A creamery here also contributed to the line's extensive dairy trade into New York. The passenger station was sold in 1934, but the freight depot continued in service through the 1960s. In September 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's private train parked here while he visited his friend widow Lucy Mercer Rutherford at her home, Rutherford Hall, along the shore of Allamuchy Pond. The railroad right-of-way from Andover to Phillipsburg, NJ, has been preserved for a future Rails-to-Trail through Warren County.
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