Haunt in Gallows Hill Road Gallows Hill Road Cranford, Nj 07016 Cranford, NEW JERSEY Union Haunt


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Gallows Hill Road
Gallows Hill Road
Cranford, Nj 07016

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County: Union
GPS: 40.656136, -74.315849
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Gallows Hill RoadLocated at the corner of Gallows Hill Road and Brookside Place was the huge tree from which spies were hung during the Revolution. The tree was cut down a few years ago, but the rusty iron and concrete post which the rope was tied to still stands. Movement around the area can be seen late at night, but only from a distance. Personal experience was what seemed to be tall bushes swaying in a nonexistent breeze. Closer inspection showed no bushes just a well manicured lawn and a really creepy feeling.

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	Like Dislike Comment# 15327 7/12/2008 11:12:00 PM Edit Reply
AnonymousVisiter K US	OK, first of all, it's called Gallows HILL Road because it runs down from the Gallows HILL, which is on the north side of East Broad Street in Westfield, not at the bottom of the hill in Cranford. And nobody was hanged from a tree -- they built a gallows. (Hence the name.) If you look at Robert Hoffman's "Olde Towne Scrapbook", explains that the gallows stood "on the hill which now overlooks Fairview Cemetery", as follows: "On the crest of the hill two uprights and a cross beam had been erected." The corner of Gallows Hill Road and Brookside Place was in the middle of somebody's farm at the time. The only iron and concrete posts I see there are the ones installed to protect the traffic light pole from being hit by a car.
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	Like Dislike Comment# 71928 6/29/2011 3:02:00 PM Edit Reply
AnonymousVisiter * US	Well this is interesting, I grew up right off of Gallows hill rd. in the 50s and 60s. I had heard that a man was hung up on the hill for murdering the local minister. I wonder what is true??
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	Like Dislike Comment# 71931 6/29/2011 5:42:00 PM Edit Reply
AnonymousVisiter * US	Well I just found out that there is a marker on the corner of Gallows Hill rd.and East Broad st..It explains the murder of Reverand James Caldwell and the hanging of the Tory who killed him....The Reverand was a very interesting man and fought in the Revolution with two pistols at his side. The British troops killed his wife in front of their children for not devolging the where abouts of her husband.
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