Snufftown - Stockholm

Settled c.1750, Snufftown may have been named for early inhabitants' fondness for snuff tobacco or because "snuff" was a euphemism for liquor. Windham, Stockholm, and other important forges produced iron goods. The Paterson & Hamburg Turnpike, organized here in 1806, brought trade and hotels. The New Jersey Midland Railroad in 1873 took "Stockholm," originally a hamlet one mile eastward, for its station name, and that gradually replaced "Snufftown." Much of the village was razed following establishment of Newark's Pequannock Watershed c.1900. Stockholm Methodist Church, built in 1826, is listed on the State and National Register of Historic Places, and the Stockholm School, later Municipal Building, built in 1882, is another landmark.

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