The Newark-Pompton Turnpike (now known in portions of its former route as Pompton Avenue , Route 23 , and Bloomfield Avenue ), is a roadway in northern New Jersey that was originally a tolled turnpike . The roadway was first laid out in the mid-18th century and given its name in 1806. As originally designed, it connected Newark with the area north and west of the Pompton River in what is now Riverdale . Its south end is Broadway in Newark; its north end is the Paterson-Hamburg Turnpike . As such, it was part of an alternate route between Newark and Paterson .
15-588: In 1917, the road was designated as part of New Jersey State Highway 8 . After the 1927 New Jersey State Highway renumbering , part of the road became Route 23, while another section became part of Route 9 (now County Route 506 or CR 506). Charlie Barnet recorded the song Pompton Turnpike, which was written by Will Osborne and Dick Rogers , about the Meadowbrook, a swing era performance venue on Pompton Avenue in Cedar Grove, NJ . It
30-513: A few tenths of a mile down Bloomfield Avenue from Cleveland's original home. The road passes through the following New Jersey communities: To follow the road in Wayne, it is necessary to turn right onto Hobson Ave immediately after crossing the Passaic River from Little Falls, cross under a railroad trestle, and turn left onto Old Turnpike Road. Route 23 bypasses this short stretch of
45-639: A half-mile into the highway. Route 284 leaves the borough of Sussex and enters Wantage Township , intersecting with Layton Road, Janice Drive, and Possum River Road. Route 284 passes to the south of a lake, crosses over a branch of the Wallkill River and intersects with CR 642 (Bassets Bridge Road). Just after the intersection with Route 642, the rural highway crosses over Quarryville Brook. At 5.41 miles (8.71 km), Route 284 intersects with an old routing of its original designation, Route 84. The original alignment merges in with Route 284 less than
60-535: A mile later. After crossing the Wallkill River branch again and the Appalachian Trail , Route 284 leaves New Jersey for New York and becomes NY 284. Route 8 , one of the routes assigned before the 1927 renumbering, ran largely along the present Route 23 corridor, but at Sussex it turned north rather than continuing northwest through High Point State Park . The section from Sussex north to
75-478: Is a connector to Unionville, and intersects with an old alignment of its original designation, Route 84 . Route 284 was first a part of Route 8 in the 1920s, becoming Route 8N in 1927 and Route 84 in 1942 before being assigned its current number in 1966. Route 284 begins at a signaled intersection in Sussex with Route 23. The route proceeds northward, intersecting with County Route 643 (CR 643) at less than
90-583: Is now a Macedonian Orthodox Church . The song was covered as a jazz/blues vocal version by Louis Jordan , the "King of the Jukebox" in the 1940s. President Grover Cleveland was born in a small house in Caldwell on the turnpike, now Bloomfield Avenue, west of the Pompton Avenue intersection. The house exists today in its original condition as a tourist attraction. Cleveland's father's church stands
105-628: Is now the exit (Overpass) by the present NJ Transit Route 23 Park/Ride Lot. A new alignment of Route 23 then continued north, removing the state highway from the rest of the Newark-Pompton Turnpike (except for a short ½ mile stretch in Pompton Plains and Riverdale). The Highway continued on a new alignment north through Riverdale, Butler & Kinnelon, connecting to the Paterson-Hamburg Turnpike in what
120-580: Is part of the following routes: New Jersey Route 23 New Jersey Route 284 Newark-Pompton Turnpike List of roads or other routes with the same name [REDACTED] This article includes a list of roads, streets, highways, or other routes that are associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Jersey_Route_8_(pre-1927)&oldid=1130934665 " Categories : Lists of roads sharing
135-520: The 1930 renumbering it became New York State Route 84 , in order to free up the number 8 for a longer route. New Jersey renumbered its Route 8N to Route 84 in March 1942 to match, in part to provide a single number for military caravans during World War II . The final renumbering was made in 1966, when Interstate 84 (I-84) opened in New York. As the new I-84 was close to the older Route 84, Route 84
150-530: The executors of Mr. Crane's estate sold the Turnpike to the Essex County Road Board. They widened, graded and macadamized the now public highway, and gave it the name of Bloomfield Avenue. Between 1933 & 1935, the Newark-Pompton Turnpike was built into a four-lane undivided arterial to connect with U.S. Route 46 (US 46). This was the section north of US 46 in Wayne up to what
165-402: The old road, and it is impossible to return to Route 23 at the north end of this short stretch. In 1806, Israel Crane , a prominent businessman closely associated with the development of Montclair and Bloomfield , obtained a charter on February 24, 1806 from the state to build the private road, in the name of the "Newark and Bloomfield Turnpike Company". Israel Crane eventually became
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#1732786894605180-784: The same title Former state highways in New Jersey Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata All set index articles New Jersey Route 284 Route 284 is a 7.03-mile (11.31 km) state highway in New Jersey , United States , running from Route 23 in Sussex north to the New York state line in Wantage Township . From there, New York State Route 284 (NY 284) continues north to U.S. Route 6 (US 6) at Slate Hill . The route
195-584: The sole owner of the stock, and the sole operator of this toll road known as the Newark-Pompton Turnpike, which opened with four toll gates at Newark, Montclair, Pine Brook, and Singac. Because of his exclusive control of the turnpike, he was given the title "King Crane." The "Newark and Bloomfield Turnpike" made the markets of Newark and New York accessible to the farms in the northern and western portions of New Jersey. With this improved transportation Bloomfield and Montclair became commercial centers, with taverns, wheelwrights, blacksmiths and wagon makers. In 1870,
210-631: The state line was taken over by the state in 1919. In the 1927 renumbering , the majority of Route 8 became Route 23. The part north of Sussex was proposed to become part of Route 31 , but that was instead moved to the present Route 94 corridor in the final version of the bill. As Route 8 north of Sussex was not assigned a number, the State Highway Commission appended a suffix of N (to distinguish it from new Route 8 ), forming Route 8N. The connecting route in New York had been numbered New York State Route 8 to match New Jersey, but in
225-478: Was once known as Smith's Mills in West Milford. During the 1980s, Route 23 was upgraded from an outmoded arterial to a modern freeway with service roads. New Jersey Route 8 (pre-1927) Pre-1927 Route 8 was a route in New Jersey that ran from Montclair north to the New York border near Unionville, New York , existing between 1916 and 1927. Today, it
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