Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 386
Land area (2000): 4.859895 sq. miles (12.587071 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.055287 sq. miles (0.143192 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.915182 sq. miles (12.730263 sq. km)
FIPS code: 22890
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 40.686872 N, 74.633400 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 07931
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Far Hills
Wikipedia
Far Hills is a New Jersey Transit station in the borough of Far Hills, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States located at the intersection of Route 202 and CR 512, ½ mile east of U.S. Route 206.
The Spanish Revival-style station was built in 1914 and also includes an old freight station to the west in a similar design. The head house has been on the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984, listed as part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.
The Far Hills station has a restaurant called Butler's Pantry and is part of the NJ Transit Gladstone Branch, offering service to Hoboken Terminal, and to Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan via the Kearny Connection. The Far Hills station is also known as the Far Hills-Bedminster train station because of its proximity to the town. During an earlier era, most riders would get off at the Far Hills station for the horse races at the Far Hills Steeplechase Farm.
Far Hills station is a major exchange center for track configuration. This means that near the station, the track splits into 2 for east and westbound trains to get past each other.
Usage examples of "far hills".
Sometimes on a night of midsummer you can hea r them crying like young birds, or like flocks on the far hills.
Till the dawn, hour after hour, as the moonlight paled on the high peaks, and that which had been belted blackness on the sides of the far hills showed as tender green forest, the lama stared fixedly at the wall.
It was nice to sit on the steps and watch the pines on the far hills swaying against the sky.
Thus all three men had intimate knowledge of those haunting and haunted ruins, and as they stared at the far hills that marked the site, they were silent with their memories.
A leaf brushed his face, and off across the far hills there were low clouds.
He stood in the garden and stared over the river and saw the goats that lived on the far hills filing down to the low ground.