This will be my final post on this blog. It has been a great learning experience and rewarding to know that the public has been looking at the work I have produced this semester.
Unfortunately, 579 is a road with not too many developments occuring, so it has become a bit difficult to give readers new material.
As a result, I am retiring from NJ 579, but I hope that through this publication, I have motivated those in the area to check out this road that I enjoy so much.
In life, and especially as journalists, we are taught not to take everything at face value and a lot of times the term “what you see is what you get” is not always true.
As I have traveled up and down county road 579, it has become apparent to me and hopefully to the readers that what looks like a simple house, structure or piece of land can hold a story and a history that does not show itself right away to passing strangers.
What is now 579 was once called Kings Highway with as much as 28 historic properties, according to the book Rural Recollections published in 1988.
Through this map, I have selected a few places that I have encountered and shared with viewers of my blog. After all, it is a road, and a map of where these unfamiliar places have grown their roots on 579 seems to be the best way to explain.
For next week’s feature post, I am going to try and re-master my google map that I posted some time ago. Since this whole blog beat is about a road, townships and landmarks, a map of the final product seems to be appropriate so that readers can visualize where I have been babbling about this whole semester. On top of the map, I will be sharing my interview with a local historian who answered some of my questions about 579.
I hope you all will click on over to the site and check out the last project!
