Buck Hill is near Route 46. The town was once an Indian Village. The chief of the tribe was called Musconegon. After the arrival of the white men the tribe got smaller. The chief of the tribe was about to die. It was the custom to bury a horse with the chief in his grave. The tribe could not find a noble steed so they decided to search for a deer. They found a buck and buried it. That is the Legend of Buck Hill.
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Dear Diary, My mom has just told me that I am the fifth generation. She has been keeping all these other secrets, too. Like the town was named after us, { I thought that was just a coincidence.} Also I'm part Austrian. April 25, 1893
April 29, 1893
These are just a couple of made up diary entries based on true information.
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Legend of Jenny Jump
On May 9, 2002, I found out a few legends, but I will only tell you two. Once there was a girl named Jenny who lived in a house next to a cliff. Jenny was picking berries and an Indian was watching her. The Indian chased Jenny to the cliff and Jenny yelled to her dad. Her dad yelled,” Jump, Jenny, jump! “And Jenny jumped to her death.
Shades Of Death
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| Do you know the legend of Jenny Jump? The
legend is an Indian wanted to marry Jenny. She said no. She
was going to marry a different man. On the day of the wedding the Indian
asked her and kept following her. Then she jumped off a cliff. She
was found and recovered, but she still remembers that day.
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| I am about to tell you the legend of Shades Of Death
Road. The legend goes when ever someone drives down that road the
Red men have been told to kill them.
No one knows the truth of Shades Of Death Road, but there are many stories.
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| This is the legend of Jenny Jump. Long ago there
was a small log cottage near the tip of a mountain. There was a young attractive
girl named Jenny Lee who lived with her aging father there. Jenny
was in love with Dr. Frank Ladis, who had returned to the village.
Arthur Moreland, who also loved Jenny said that he'd give her half
his fortune if she married him. She did not want his attention and
told him not to come and see her ever again. A half a mile from her
cottage a mountain rose hundreds of feet. A stream tumbled down the
steep slope beside lots of jagged rocks. Between the huge rocks
was a very mossy area. In that mossy area was a sapling. Someone
scared Jenny, and she fell onto the sapling and she got very bruised.
Dr. Frank found her, helped her, and healed her.
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BUCK HILL
There is a hill north from Hackettstown called Buck Hill. It was an Indian Village. It was pretty big. There was a chief in the Village called Musconetcong. When the white men arrived, the village started to shrink. The chief, Musconetcong chose to go to Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. It was the only choice he had to make. They argued excitedly, they had decided to go back to Musconetcong Valley. It just happened years before that the chief ‘s wife was buried next to a buck.
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Mrs.Cummins’ presentation
Mrs.Cummins talked about many different things. She told us about her family settling in Vienna N.J. Vienna was called Cummins town. There is a house that's been there for many generation. Lenape Indians lived on the farm by the Pequest River. Ms. Cummins told us legends about Jenny Jump, Shades of Death and Buck Hill. The Cummins family still owns the house and farm. The Cummins family will own the house and farm for many more generations. |
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| These journal entries are based on Ms. Cummins’ presentation
to us.
April 28,1968
April 30,1968
May 1,1968
May 2, 1968
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| Ms.Cummins found arrow
heads and ax tops on her farm.
Ms.Cummins' arrow heads and ax tops are very special to her. They are special because she found them and it's rare to find the things she found. The last person that might have touched Ms.Cummins' arrow heads and ax tops might have been the Indians. |
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In the 1740’s the Cummins family came and settled
in this area. Before their house was built there was only a log cabin.
But then in 1794 they built the stone part of the Cummins house.
In the basement, there is a dirt floor and in the concrete someone wrote
1794. In later times the farmers made the farm by cutting down the
trees and moving the stones. Also, then in the 1800’s they built the barns
for the animals. In 1810 Jacob Cummins founded and built the Vienna Methodist
Church.
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Here is a legend. There is a Buck Hill in Hackettstown. .It was an Indian village long ago. There was a chief in that village. It was called Musconetcong. When the white people arrived at the village it started to shrink. The chief, Musconetcong chose to go to Wyoming Valley in P.A. it was the only choice that they had. They argued excitedly, and they decided to go back to Musconetcong Valley. It just happened a couple years ago that the chief's wife was buried next to a buck. |
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Shades Of Death Road
People say that people got hit by cars and saw ghosts. They also say that when it's a full moon, ghosts rise from a lake because there was a graveyard that got flooded . If you go to Shades of Death Road something scary might happen. My sisters went there and they ran out of gas, but they had more and that's all I know about Shades Of Death Road. |
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Jenny Jump
This is the story of “Jenny Jump”. . It is one of legends of Independence Township. One day there was Jenny, and Jenny was picking berries and an Indian tried to catch her. Jenny tried to get help from her dad., He saw that the Indian was coming to torture her. So he said “ Jenny Jump! Jenny Jump!”. She was on a big hill and she didn't want to get tortured by the Indian so she jumped and she died. |
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Legend of Jenny Jump
There once was a girl
named Jenny Lee. She was a young
attractive girl who lived with her aging
father. She loved a doctor named
Frank Land. But another man loved Jenny. His name was Arthur
Moreland. Dr. Franlk Land. asked Jenny to marry him. She said, yes. Well,
the night of the wedding to Frank,
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| My favorite part was when we were reading Jump Jenny Jump! You mentioned the hill that has the star on top of it. I used to think the star was real, but it's not. It is only lights on top of a house. After school my family was eating dinner and the door opened all by itself. I think a spirit came in, because I felt all shivery. It made me think about the house that might be haunted. | |||
| GHOST
LAKE
Get scared when you cross! .
Leaves fall in the lake.
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Ghost Lake
When the sun sets on Shades of Death
Road,
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| A Visit from a Special Person
Michelle's mom came to Central School. Speaking of the Cummins' family history. Coming in with artifacts. Unusual stories and legends, Many facts of Great Meadows, and. Mysterious ghost stories were told. In elementary school she earned awards for running a 50 and a 600 mile run. Do you dare to travel on Shades of Death Road during the night? So come to see how different our school was. Ms .Cummins’ visit was wonderful! |
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The Mixture of Legends and History
Back in 1740, a 9 year old, Jenny Lee Jump, lived on
George Jump, Jenny's father, who had divorced earlier, forced a woman to jump off of a cliff. After 2 years, George Jump married Joan Cummins.
Then one night, they heard a thump upstairs They went up and they couldn't find anything so they have always thought their house was haunted. Then one sunny day, Jenny was gathering berries when an Indian popped out of the bushes and aimed his bow at her. Jenny didn't know what to do when she heard her father scream, "Jump, Jenny, Jump”. With nothing else to do, she obeyed her father and jumped off of the cliff into the water. Then her mother ran to a smaller cliff below the one Jenny jumped off. “No Jenny!” At that moment, Joan sprinted off of the cliff. She grabbed Jenny as they both hit the water. Now George W. Jump lives alone on Shades of Death
Road, near Ghost lake.
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This is my story about Shades of Death Road.. Read on if you dare!
One misty dusk, a man and his horse were on their
way home. He turned his horse from the main road onto the back road
to his farm. As he turned onto the road, it was darker and the mist
started rising. The man and his horse kept going. All of a
sudden, out of nowhere, jumped a full grown mountain lion.
The horse reared and the man screamed until the mountain lion slaughtered
him and his horse. There has been more than just one kill on this
road by mountain lions. The road is now called Shades of Death Road.
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| One creepy night, Jenny known for her jump, was
just walking in the woods. Then out of no where a black bear came charging..
It chased Jenny all through the woods. The bear stopped chasing her and
slowly crawled toward her. Jenny was at the end of a cliff. The bear came
too close and Jenny jumped. No one knew what happen to her body.
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| A THANK YOU POEM FOR MS. CUMMINS
Thanks for coming to our school
You kindly and gladly came to speak
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JENNY JUMP MOUNTAIN
A long time ago, on the side of what is now known as Jenny
Jump Mountain, a girl named Jenny was trying to get information on a reptile,
the garter snake. When she thought she had found one, ( which really was
a stick with moss) for some strange reason, she became very excited.
Jenny jumped for the stick. However she slipped on a rock and nobody
ever saw her again.
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| Long, long ago when Indians roamed the earth there was an Indian tribe called the Laechee. The Laechee believed that horses were their gods. Because of their beliefs, the tribe had many horses. Each one was very strong, but the chief had the biggest and the strongest horse out of all the tribe. One day a man that was very strange traded some magic seeds to a lady from the Laechee tribe. She put the seeds in a bowl of clay, and set them in her barn. The next day the lady went to feed her horse and by accident knocked the bowl of magic seeds into the horses food. When the horse went to eat his food he was so hungry that he didn't notice there was seeds in his food. Later that day the lady went to feed her horse dinner and her horse had a mane. The lady dropped the food and went running to the chief. The chief didn't believe her. Soon after that all the Indians found out about the seeds and all the horses had manes. The chief rode his horse to the ladies house and asked for some seeds the lady gave him some seeds. As soon as the chief got home he fed his horse the seeds. The next morning the chief awoke early to admire his horse's new mane which he thought was shiny. He saw his horse and gasped. His horse had no mane. He rushed to the ladies house and told her, my horse is not beautiful like all the others. It is not beautiful because the meaner you are the less of a beautiful mane your horse will have, said the lady. Ten years passed and the chief got nicer, and his horse started to grow a mane. | |||
| People say that if you walk by Ghost Lake at dusk you will hear one of the little boys screaming ,"Help me, Joseph!" And that is how Ghost Lake got its name. | |||
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The Ghost of Ghost Lake
There was a man who was fishing at Ghost Lake. It was getting dark and he had not caught a fish yet. The man was determined to stay until he caught a fish. Suddenly, he saw something white emerging from the lake. He thought it was a ghost and dropped his pole. He screamed then ran into his car, and drove off. |
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Ms.Cummins Came
Ms.Cummins came in and told us about how Central School was when she was in school. Back then they did not have buses. Your parents had to drive you to school. That took you a very long time. You would be bored. She told us a lot of wonderful facts about Central School. Ms. Cummins' name is still on the board of records for being a faster runner than all of the others.
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