District represents architectural period 1830-1895, and includes dwellings built on lots developed by Boonton Iron Works. Boundries are Church Street at Main Street to Birch Street and Cornelia Street. — — Map (db m192213) HM
Original Dutch west wing built by Johannes Miller around 1740. Bought in 1798 by Isaac Kingsland who added the large Federal style addition in 1808. — — Map (db m91572) HM
This working farm, operated continuously since first settled, is one of the most completed examples of a 19th century agricultural complex in Morris County. — — Map (db m91625) HM
Pre-Revolutionary Petersburg Forge. Later the site of Alfred T. Ringling Estate. Circus acts auditioned in mansion. Animals and circus equipment often housed in outbuildings. — — Map (db m91521) HM
A Dutch stone farmhouse built circa 1730 by Fredericks family. One of the first families to settle in this region. Their descendants lived and farmed here through early twentieth century. — — Map (db m91546) HM
Crossroad flagstop built by William S. Cary who utilized Central Railroad to transport Kaolin and fire sand mined on his farm. Estate house occupied by Cary family continuously from 1769-1950. — — Map (db m91418) HM
Pre-Revolutionary salt box dwelling least altered on the Suckasunny Plains. Built by Captain Silas Riggs, who operated three boats on nearby Morris Canal. Moved to present site 1962 — — Map (db m91420) HM
Site of Morris County's two earliest court houses. The Green, purchased in 1816 from the Presbyterian Church, owned and continuously administered by the trustees of the Morristown Green. — — Map (db m5948) HM
Summer cottage designed by architect Frank Furness for renowned 19th century actress. Located in Breslin Park, Lake Hopatcong’s fashionable section during its great resort years. — — Map (db m91515) HM
Oldest standing church in Morris County. Architecture is pegged construction. Religious Society of Friends worshiped here until 1865. Quakers, early foes of slavery, were persecuted for pacifist beliefs during Revolution. — — Map (db m91453) HM
Built on site of several pre-Revolutionary mills. Joseph Slater purchased present mill in 1861 for factory which processed beaver fur felt for Stetson Hats. — — Map (db m91550) HM
Noted architect Jeremiah O’Rourke designed this 1873 Gothic church. Built of local rough-cut stone, it features an open timber roof and jewel-toned stained glass. Early parishioners included immigrants who labored in nearby iron mines. — — Map (db m91508) HM
Built by Samuel Tuttle, grandson of Joseph Tuttle, Colonel in Morris Militia, and County Freeholder. House occupied by Tuttle descendants until 1913. Dwelling borders Old Whippany Cemetery. — — Map (db m91152) HM
In honor of the Patriots and Soldiers of the American Revolution at rest in this cemetery. Ceasar TMS 1806 • Noah Clark 1801 • James Coles 1812 • John Darby, Sr. 1820 • John Darby, Jr. 1829 • James Dorcey 1805 • Nathaniel Drake 1801 • . . . — — Map (db m63458) HM
The DL&W Railroad built this prairie style station in 1904. Passenger trains served the growing commuter population. Freight trains delivered coal to heat homes and power local mills, then departed with products headed to market. Morris . . . — — Map (db m33493) HM
During the Revolution, former soldier Shepard Kollock printed the New Jersey Journal on this site “to maintain the cause of freedom” and serve the army in Morristown. The Journal, north Jersey’s only wartime newspaper, founded in 1779, . . . — — Map (db m8878) HM
A Revolutionary tavern, owned by Colonel Ellis Cook, member of the Morris County Militia. The tavern derived its name from Sussex County farmers who stopped here enroute to Newark markets. Morris County Heritage Commission New Jersey Register . . . — — Map (db m32272) HM
Built on site of 1830 wooden school. Present structure predates Florham Park borough by 33 years. Classes held here continuously until 1914. Morris County Heritage Commission New Jersey Register of Historic Places National Register of . . . — — Map (db m36415) HM
Victorian Italianate house purchased by Augustus Crane 1857. Home until 1971 of Crane- Hone family who contributed greatly to Morristown civic, cultural and business life. National Register of Historic Places New Jersey Register of Historic . . . — — Map (db m36406) HM
Gothic revival building is oldest standing church in Morristown. Replaced 1848 wooden church which ministered to Irish immigrant families in surrounding Dublin area. Morris County Heritage Commission New Jersey Register of Historic Places . . . — — Map (db m32678) HM
Neo-gothic house built by General Joseph Revere, grandson of Paul Revere. Purchased 1881 by Charles Foster, whose daughter, Caroline, donated the property as living farm to Morris County Park Commission in 1973. Morris County Heritage . . . — — Map (db m42209) HM
One of the finest examples of public buildings in the Federal style in New Jersey. Original Court House on the Green built in 1755. Morris County Heritage Commission — — Map (db m9689) HM
Monsieur Louis Sansay, French dancing school here. House was site of ball honoring Lafayette in 1825. Later home of General Joseph Revere. National Register of Historic Places New Jersey Register of Historic Places Morris County Heritage . . . — — Map (db m32669) HM
Home of Silas Condict, colonial patriot, and subsequently home of General Joseph Cutler and his son, Augustus, congressman and father of the Free School System. Morris County Heritage Commission New Jersey Register of Historic Places . . . — — Map (db m42204) HM
Oldest house in Morristown on its original site. Home of a patriot, artisan, government official and Presbyterian Elder. Morris County Heritage Commission New Jersey Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic . . . — — Map (db m42205) HM
Stephen Vail, owner of Speedwell Iron Works, built machinery for S.S. Savannah, first trans-Atlantic steamship, in 1819. His son, Alfred Vail, and Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrated electromagnetic telegraph in 1838.National Register of . . . — — Map (db m32694) HM
Georgian mansion built as summer home by George Frelinghuysen during Morristown’s “Golden Era.” His daughter, Matilda, donated property as arboretum to Morris County Park Commission, 1969. Morris County Heritage Commission New . . . — — Map (db m33180) HM
Revolutionary War refuge Home of William Livngston and his family. Livingston was the first elected Governor of New Jersey. Morris County Heritage Commission National Register of Historic Places New Jersey Register of Historic . . . — — Map (db m229214) HM
Manor house built by Jacob Ford, Jr. subsequently home of John Jacob Faesch who directed the iron mining operations which provided the Continental Army with ammunition and ordnance. Morris County Heritage Commission New Jersey Register of . . . — — Map (db m192223) HM
Since Pompton was on the main route North, the Continental army camped here often. Washington quartered at the Schuyler House, July 12, 1777, and visited Colonel Van Cortlandt here, March 28, 1782. — — Map (db m166032) HM
Original farmhouse owned by Abraham Kitchel, Revolutionary patriot.
New Jersey legislator and Morris County Judge. Dwelling enlarged and outbuildings built during 19th century. Kitchel family occupied property until 1927. — — Map (db m94691) HM
Constructed between 1899-1912. This mound was to carry the tracks of the Speedwell Lake Extension of the Rockaway Valley Railroad. This extension, to link the former Watnong Station with the main rail lines in Morristown, was never . . . — — Map (db m156508) HM
Farmed for centuries, these fields have remained a cherished Harding vista while much open cropland disappeared. In 1999, Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen conveyed to the Harding Land Trust nearly 100 acres of open fields on both sides of James Street . . . — — Map (db m18221) HM
This 15 acre property was purchased by Harding Township and the Harding Land Trust in 2003 in partnership with the Morris County Open Space Preservation Trust and the State of New Jersey Green Acres program. It is a key link in the Silver Brook . . . — — Map (db m18223) HM
Victorian gravel wall house, located on part of property originally purchased about 1715 by John Ford, early Whippany settler. His direct descendant, Edwin Ford, built present dwelling.
Morris County Heritage Commission, New Jersey Register of . . . — — Map (db m91151) HM
Carpenter Gothic structure was mission parish of Madison and Morristown until 1883. Oldest standing Roman Catholic chapel in Morris County. Home parish of Father Cornelius Clifford.
New Jersey Register of Historic Places — — Map (db m52522) HM
(side facing north) On February 24, 1806, Businessman Israel Crane obtained a charter from the State of New Jersey to build a private toll road running from Broadway in Newark to Paterson-Hamburg Turnpike at Pompton in Morris County. He saw that . . . — — Map (db m104858) HM
William Robinson, Papillion's First Mayor William Robinson was born on May 16, 1820, in Morris County, New Jersey. He made his way to Bellevue, Nebraska in 1857 and opened a real estate and loan business. Robinson moved to Papillion . . . — — Map (db m287996) HM
Columbia Trail – A 7-mile Hunterdon County Greenway, from the Borough of High Bridge, north to the Morris County line.
Opened in July of 1876, the High Bridge Branch was a busy railroad owned by the Central Railroad Company of New . . . — — Map (db m36999) HM
Acorn Hall was built in 1853 and remodeled in the Italianate Villa style in 1860; the Crane/Hone family lived here from 1857 to 1971. The house and its interiors were preserved through the efforts of the Crane/Hone women. Mary Bolles Crane, . . . — — Map (db m36428) HM
Dr. Condict, outstanding public servant, was first president of the Morris County Medical Society, Congressman, and first president of the Morris and Essex Railroad.
Morris County Heritage Commission New Jersey Register of Historic . . . — — Map (db m287976) HM
Founded in 1752. It is one of the oldest churches in the state. Its first pastor was John Gano. Later personal chaplain to George Washington. Built in the Romanesque Revival style. This is the church's fourth edifice, dating from 1892. In 2000, a . . . — — Map (db m252481) HM
Fosterfields Living Historical Farm, a working farm run by the Morris County Park Commission, is open to the public for self-guided tours April through October. The former owner of the farm, Caroline Foster, gave the property to the Park Commission . . . — — Map (db m42218) HM
Constructed of native stone by the Lackawanna Railroad, the station was a key link for resort visitors and residents from 1911 into the 1950s. Lackawanna Trains, The Morris Canal, Lake Steamboats, and Morris County Traction Company Trolleys . . . — — Map (db m149142) HM
The Hibernia Mine Railroad Bridge, constructed in 1879, is the oldest surviving metal truss bridge in Somerset County, the second oldest Phoenix column bridge in New Jersey and the only one built as a railroad bridge.
This was built by Clark, . . . — — Map (db m60366) HM
Rockaway Valley
United Methodist Church
1842
Structure typifies 19th century rural church architecture. Originally site of early indian burial ground and community schoolhouse. Stained glass windows, recognizing Boonton Township settlers and . . . — — Map (db m89024) HM
Industrial transportation route
extending from Phillipsburg to
Jersey City. The canal, an engineering feat of locks and inclined
planes, revitalized the iron
industry in Morris County.
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
National . . . — — Map (db m41900) HM
Martha Brookes Hutcheson (1871-1959) was one of America's first women landscape architects. After studying for three years in the Landscape Architecture program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she began her practice in 1902. Mrs. . . . — — Map (db m33173) HM
The town's original name came from Jacob Neighbor, an early resident who prospered in the hills of California during the gold rush of 1849. Upon his return, he built two of the first businesses in town, a large sawmill along the banks of the South . . . — — Map (db m21807) HM
Opened in July 1876, the High Bridge Branch was once a busy railroad owned by the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey. It was built to bring iron ore from the mines in Chester, Hacklebarney, Mine Hill, Port Oram (Wharton), and Hibernia to the . . . — — Map (db m21809) HM
Our Commitment
Bethel is more than a church; since its inception, Bethel has been a cultural, historical, political and intellectual institution, as well as a sanctuary for weary travelers.
Many of the pastors who served Bethel were active . . . — — Map (db m307721) HM
Colonel Jacob Ford, Sr.
Prominent land-holder and iron manufacturer
Member of New Jersey House of Assembly
Judge of Morris County Court
Ardent promoter of American cause in Revolutionary War
Born April 13, 1704 Died January 19, 1777 . . . — — Map (db m7553) HM
Benjamin Woodruff was born on November 26, 1744, in Hanover Township, Morris County, New Jersey. He enlisted at
age 32 and first served in 1776 as a drummer.
He later served as a Sergeant in the Morris
County, New Jersey Militia where he . . . — — Map (db m264571) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
