In the early 1980s, at the start of the state Farmland Preservation Program, New Jersey Conservation Foundation teamed up with the Fisher family to preserve their two adjoining farms and launch the effort to save this historic and scenic valley from housing developments.
On June 23, New Jersey Conservation Foundation purchased the development rights on the Curtis farm along Rosemont-Ringoes Road (Route 604), ensuring that it will remain farmland forever. The Rosemont Valley stretches from New Jersey’s last original covered bridge — Green Sergeant’s Bridge — to the tiny hamlet of Rosemont.
New Jersey Conservation Foundation is a private nonprofit that preserves land and natural resources throughout the state. Since 1960, New Jersey Conservation Foundation has protected 125,000 acres of open space — from the Highlands to the Pine Barrens to the Delaware Bayshore, from farms to forests to urban and suburban parks.