WEST MILFORD, N.J. (AP) – Mystery solved in Passaic County.

A historian believes he has found the source of inspiration for an 1846 painting titled Janetta Falls, Passaic County. The site is likely Clinton Falls in West Milford.

Artist Jasper Cropsey was known for paintings which depicted the natural beauty of Passaic County and the Highlands. But he also got the names of places wrong.

Historian Geoff Welch says an 1860 article in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine about artists in the Highlands mentioned a waterfall that had to be Janetta Falls. Clinton Falls resembles the scene depicted in the painting.

Clinton Falls is eight miles from Cropsey’s studio in West Milford.

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Information from: The Record of Bergen County,
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