Hope, White Meadow, Beaver Brook, Hibernia, Mt. Three significant roads led to newly opened mines and forges at Mt. General merchandise stores were clustered along Newark Street (now Main Street), with the Presbyterian Meeting House nearby a grist mill, saw mill, and a forge had been built on the Rockaway River. By 1760, Rockaway Village had already become the center for trade, manufacture, and religion. When Rockaway Village incorporated as a Borough in 1894, it was already one hundred sixty years old. The current MapQuest map of Rockaway may help in following the story. The following introduction by Mary Electa Robinson is excerpted from Remembering Rockaway, edited by Dorothy E. On the occasion of the Borough's centennial in 1994, a book was published that illustrates how the town grew with the use of before and after photographs and three old maps. Early in the 1900's, there were two major railroads, a trolley line, an iron foundry, an inclined plane and two basins of the Morris Canal, a bicycle factory, a three story department store selling everything from bonnets to bedsteads, and three hotels, including one that was a favorite of Annie Oakley. Driving through Rockaway, New Jersey today, you can feel a strong sense of history, but there are now only hints of the place that Rockaway once was.
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