The Terhune Benjamin House was a historic farm and a former mill site located in Lincoln Park, New Jersey.
History
Located at 117 Main Street in Lincoln Park, the Terhune Benjamin House was a Federal Period house with a Dutch gambrel roof which predated the American Revolutionary War.The Morris County Heritage Commission (2008). Historic Highlights of Lincoln Park Records from the Preakness Reformed Church show that the home passed in ownership from owner Albert Terhune to the Morris Canal Company sometime after 1820.Labaw, George Warne (1902). Preakness and the Preakness Reformed Church, Passaic County, New Jersey: a history, 1695-1902, with genealogical notes, the records of the church and tombstone inscriptions
In 1829, the Morris Canal Company constructed inclined planes at Bloomfield, Pompton, Montville, and Booneton.Whitford, Noble. History of the Canal System of the State of New York: Together With Brief Histories of the Canals of the United States and Canada: Volume 1 By 1845, the Morris Canal Company had sold the home and adjacent lands to David Benjamin. Benjamin operated a sawmill at the site, using the 56-foot fall of water at the adjacent Morris Canal incline plane 10 East. Prior to 1901, Thomas Sindle and George Francisco purchased the home.
In 2018, the house was demolished to make way for a new housing development at the site.
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