Dover and Rockaway Railroad - Dover and Diversity

Dover and Diversity

This project perhaps contributed to Dover's "Melting Pot" as about fifty Swedish immigrants were employed at the eastern end of the "cut" and Irish immigrants were hired to work the western end. In the meantime, a group of Italian immigrants worked laying track in the East Dover "meadows". The Swedish labor force was housed in the apartments and hotel buildings on North Sussex Street for the duration of the project.

After this link was completed the "old farm house" building on North Sussex Street was converted into a train station to become the first Dover terminal, which operated there for over fifty years. Once the line was completed to High Bridge, the building was widely used as a departure and arrival station by the people of such towns as Long Valley, Flanders, Bartley, and Califon as well as nearby communities such as Rockaway, Wharton, and Hibernia.