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This undated photo shows a rare view of Changewater from the Warren County side looking towards Hunterdon.
Vintage postcard from the museum's collection
"Frank Snyder had a canoe he put on the river above the dam. He'd take his girlfriend for rides on Sundays." Anna Jane Geiger
On May 3rd, 1843, a grim discovery was made: Changewater residents John Castner, his wife Maria, young daughter Maria Matilda and brother-in-law John B. Parke had been found murdered. Their tombstones are inscribed with vengeful pleas.
A farmhand was critically injured and it is believed their other young sons were only spared because they had been sleeping in a different room than usual.
After two years and two trials, Joseph Carter, Jr. and Peter W. Parks were convicted of the crime. They were hanged at the Warren County Court House in 1845 and buried at what became known as the Murderers' Crossroads. The two men both proclaimed their innocence and some modern historians believe that they may have been innocent.
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