LONG VALLEY — The railroad depot in German Valley, Washington Township, part of the Central Railroad of New Jersey line, is pictured in this undated postcard. The depot was part of the High ...

In July 1918, the name was changed to Long Valley due to the anti-German sentiment during World War I. A plaque dedication is scheduled before the end of the year in honor of New Jersey’s 350th ...

according to "New Jersey: A Guide to its Present and Past," and was known as German Valley for more than 200 years. The book, produced in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration for the ...

Many of the early settlers of the Valley were German-speaking people who came south from central Pennsylvania in the 18th and early 19th centuries on the great wagon trails that became our highways ...