October 17, 2012 THE VILLADOM TIMES IV • Page 21 Ramsey This trip rocks! Olivia and Sienna, first graders at Ramsey’s Tisdale School, are pictured on their class field trip to the Franklin Mineral Museum in Franklin, where they collected and learned about many different types of minerals that occur in New Jersey. Franklin is well known as a great location to find fluorescent rocks. Property auction (continued from page 3) structure on the site will be removed before the sale of the property. In July 2008, the council paid $72,000 to demolish the concrete reservoir, which was almost a century old. All the underground pipes that supported the water tank will be removed from the site, according to Michael Kelly, the township’s professional engineer. Kelly told the planning board that, in order to keep impervious coverage and housing development at a minimum, the township proposed only two nonconforming lots rather than three. Campion emphasized that the current value of the property lies in the two buildable lots. He added that the buyers of the lots will have to apply to the planning board for site plan and soil moving approvals. The tank field on this site has a long history in the township, having been built sometime after 1912 when artesian wells were drilled in the area of Mahwah Road. The artesian wells and this reservoir and tank served the township for many years starting in the early 1900s when the Cragmere Water Company was founded and the Cragmere section of the township was being developed, according to “From Pioneer Settlement to Suburb: A History of Mahwah New Jersey, 1700-1976,” the recognized historical record of the township. The water company was sold to Albert Winter in 1925. He transferred the deed to the Mahwah Water Company in 1931, and the system was integrated into the township’s water system in 1950. The tank field was put out of service in the 1970s when a tank was installed on nearby East Slope Road.