When Nazareth Met 'The Sopranos'

When actor James Gandolfini died Wednesday, fans flocked to places he'd made famous while playing mob boss Tony Soprano.

The series was set in New Jersey, so naturally, most of those places were in the Garden State.

But back in 2002, a big plot twist in The Sopranos' fourth season brought Gandolfini to Lower Nazareth Township.

In the second half of season four, Tony Soprano kills one of his associates during a fight. Because it's not a sanctioned mob execution, he needs to cover up the murder, and therefore disposes of the body in a quarry.

Playing the quarry: Lower Nazareth's Dutch Springs aqua park.

Gandolfini and fellow cast member Michael Imperioli spent a night at Dutch Springs with an HBO crew to shoot the scene in the spring of 2002. The episode aired that fall.

"It was an all-day, all-night event," Dutch Springs owner Stu Schooley told the Morning Call at the time.