Painting in a clear, crisp style, Hugh Bolton Jones captured the earliest touches of green in the trees near the Rahway River in Maplewood, New Jersey, where he was working in 1894. Maplewood was formerly a part of the territories of the Lenape (also known as Lenni Lenape or Delaware) people, who inhabited areas of what are now Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. When Jones completed this painting, Maplewood was already being transformed from farmland and orchards into a commuter suburb of Newark, New Jersey, and New York, New York.