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In Search of Deep Shade

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

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During these dog days of April, the only thing more delicious than ice cream is shade -- deep, dense, cooling shade. If you're up for a walk, but are afraid of wilting, I highly recommend the elaborate networks of walking paths, bridges and streams that wind through Grover Cleveland Park, which sits on the border of Essex Fells and Caldwell. The temperature feels at least 10 degrees lower, and there's even a water-cooled breeze. Park at the end of Buttonwood Road for stroller access.

Posted by Debbie Galant on April 28, 2009 12:11 PM
 

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What a nice relaxing photo!

Author Profile Page Nellie | April 28, 2009 2:01 PM | Reply
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This is a beautiful little Olmsted brothers park which has been upgraded over the last six or seven years by both Essex County and an active volunteer group in the area. In our Caldwell days we used to visit almost daily with our late border collie, Cayenne. Make no mistake: in standard border collie operating procedure (SBCOP) this was her park, and with that ownership came the right to benevolently allow other creatures to share it. We spent the afternoon of 9/11 there, and only a few weeks later we spent the afternoon of Cayenne's passing there as well. It is a most peaceful place.

Author Profile Page Conan | April 28, 2009 2:52 PM | Reply
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Would love the park more, if certain unknown dog owners would pick up after their pooches, I am tired of cleaning sneakers and shoes after walking there...

And yes, it is very pretty...

Author Profile Page MsSumida | April 28, 2009 8:25 PM | Reply
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What an exquisite little oasis. General Crane of Montclair willed this land to his nieces and nephews (the Goulds and some Cranes) in his 1831 will. That’s how the Crain’s Mill retirement village, a mile down the stream at the Passaic River in West Caldwell got its name.
Before the Olmstead Brothers did their artistry, this park was the site of a wind mill, a saw mill and a paper mill. (Robert Olmstead at the time lived in that cottage on the train bridge at Franklin Avenue in Bloomfield off the once Morris Canal) If you know the Papermill Playhouse in Milburn, this is what the area could have looked like about one hundred and fifty years ago. Foundations of the paper mill are still visible further down stream at the Trotters Woods in Essex Fells. The Caldwell neighborhood across the street from the park is called the “Cedars” and it was built as a resort on a previous estate called “Knollwood”. The Knollwood manner house is still there, absorbed by surrounding subdivisions. The houses at Cedars are smaller, country like and many of them have screened in sleeping porches to enjoy the cool air of this wooded glen. There are still about four or five Olmsted designed resort cottages along this glen. People who lived in nearby cities would transfer here in the summer to enjoy the cool air and go hunting in the woods and fishing in the Passaic River.

Author Profile Page frankgg | April 28, 2009 10:27 PM | Reply
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