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Waterloo Village | |
 Canal Museum, Canal Society of New Jersey, 2018 | |
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| Location | Byram Township, New Jersey |
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| Coordinates | 40°54′56″N 74°45′22″W / 40.91556°N 74.75611°W |
| Area | 70 acres (28 ha) |
| Built | 1820 |
| Architectural style | Late Victorian |
| NRHP reference No. | 77000909[1] (original) 15000176 (increase) |
| NJRHP No. | 2593[2] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | September 13, 1977 |
| Boundary increase | April 28, 2015 |
| Designated NJRHP | February 3, 1977 |
Waterloo Village is a restored 19th-century canal town in Byram Township, Sussex County (west of Stanhope) in northwestern New Jersey, United States. The community was approximately the half-way point in the roughly 102 miles (164 km) trip along the Morris Canal, which ran from Jersey City (across the Hudson River from Manhattan, New York) to Phillipsburg, New Jersey, (across the Delaware River from Easton, Pennsylvania). Waterloo possessed all the accommodations necessary to service the needs of a canal operation, including an inn, a general store, a church, a blacksmith shop (to service the mules on the canal), and a watermill. For canal workers, Waterloo's geographic location would have been conducive to being an overnight stopover point on the two-day trip between Phillipsburg and Jersey City.
It is currently an open-air museum in Allamuchy Mountain State Park. As part of the State Park, it is open to the public from sunrise to sunset. The village was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 13, 1977.[3]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Sussex County" (PDF). NJ DEP - Historic Preservation Office. June 14, 2018. p. 1. Retrieved October 15, 2010.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Waterloo". National Park Service. Retrieved September 5, 2018. With accompanying pictures