Stripping Redwoods If you've driven around West Sonoma County you may have noticed redwoods that have all of their branches shaved off of one side, all the way to the top. This has been done to protect a utility under one side of the redwood trees. Again, the law of unintended consequences is at play.
It continued to draw steady revenues from coal and passenger service. Most of the Reading's 20th century activity in the Garden State was in South Jersey. The Reading had controlled the Atlantic City railroad and the Pennsylvania was in competition in the Philadelphia to Atlantic City run.
In 2002, from September 29 to October 13, there was a reenactment of the Underground Railroad throughout New Jersey. The participants of the Harriet Tubman-William Still Underground Railroad Walk across New Jersey began the 180-mile journey from Greenville (Cumberland County) to Jersey City.