The Hillside Reservoir cache is part of The Rutherfurd - Stuyvesant Geocache series which give an in depth history of this important and distinguished american family and the gilded age in New Jersey.
These two nearby locations, The Stuyvesant Mansion and Rutherfurd Mansion were located within Tranquility Farms massive estate was divided by the construction on interstate 80. Those individual titled cache pages will give a complete history.
In the eighteenth century landowners introduced innovative ways of providing water supplies to their houses and estates. By using water from springs, lakes, or small reservoir on the hillside above the house water was collected and pumped into his house, where it was used for sanitation, hydraulic power and fire hydrants.
The Hillside Reservoir
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