Near Speedwell Avenue (U.S. 202), on the right when traveling north.
An inventory of Stephen Vail’s property showed that he owned two carriages, two sleighs, two wagons and two buggies. This simple, one story building was used as extra storage for the Vail family’s vehicles. Its double sliding doors face the main . . . — — Map (db m32874) HM
On Lafayette Avenue at Kary Way, on the right when traveling west on Lafayette Avenue.
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
On Lafayette Avenue at Kary Way, on the right when traveling west on Lafayette Avenue.
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
On Madison Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Built during Morristown’s Gilded Age for General Edward Meany, New Jersey Advocate General, 1893, and a Director of American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Architecture reflects English Medieval Castle influence. — — Map (db m42203) HM
On North Park Place at West Park Place, on the right when traveling south on North Park Place.
Site of Col. Jacob Arnold's Tavern. It was used as Washington's Headquarters January - May, 1777. Troops were in Lowantica Valley. — — Map (db m5949) HM
Near N Park Place, on the left when traveling west.
On January 6, 1777 General George Washington established his winter headquarters at Jacob Arnold’s Tavern, then located at what is now 20 Park Place. He occupied rooms on the second floor. His officers and men were quartered in every house and barn . . . — — Map (db m32723) HM
On Madison Avenue, on the left when traveling east.
Built by the Community Morristown resident Myra Brookfield, determined that her hometown should have its own hospital, bequeathed her house and property on DeHart Street for just that purpose in the late 1800s. A community-wide . . . — — Map (db m117446) HM
On Spring St. at Bishop Nazery Way, on the right when traveling north on Spring St..
This African-American congregation, first in the county, was incoporated in 1843 by the Bethel Mite Society which raised funds to construct the 1849 carpenter gothic church that stood 150 yards south on the west side of spring street. The present . . . — — Map (db m153558) HM
On Olyphant Place, on the right when traveling north.
Home of Jabez Campfield, where Alexander Hamilton courted Betsy Schuyler in 1780. Her uncle, Surgeon General of the Continental Army, Dr. John Cochran, quartered here. — — Map (db m7360) HM
On Chestnut Street, on the left when traveling south.
Large fires, cannon and flags were used to signal alarms during the Revolutionary War. The fires were called beacons and were used to assemble militia, indicate the approach direction of the enemy and to direct the movements of military forces. . . . — — Map (db m7519) HM
On Maple Avenue at Madison Street, on the right when traveling south on Maple Avenue.
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
On Burnham Pkwy at Washington Street, on the right when traveling south on Burnham Pkwy.
Brig. Gen. Henry Knoxin command of the artillery of the Continental Army used the field now covered by these ponds as pasture for the artillery horses. His soldiers lived in log huts erected on the hillside to the west. Nine brigades of the . . . — — Map (db m8490) HM
On Morris Avenue at Washington Avenue, on the right on Morris Avenue.
Life Guard Camp
On this site the Commander in Chief’s Guard was encamped from December 1779 to June 1780. The Guard was reorganized in Morristown during the first encampment in 1777 and again in 1780. Washington made his headquarters in the . . . — — Map (db m5665) HM
In memory of the Continental Soldiers who died of small pox during the Revolutionary War 1775-1781. And of church members in the Old Baptist Cemetery and moved here in 1892.
Dedicated May 19, 1996 — — Map (db m94682) WM
Near W Park Place, on the left when traveling south.
The Continental Store House was located on the southwest side of the Green. It was used to store supplies for the Continental Army during most of the American Revolution. Gunpowder made at the Ford powder mill on the Whippany River was made into . . . — — Map (db m32725) HM
On N Park Place (U.S. 202), on the right when traveling east.
1770 - 1827 Here stood the Court House and Jail at the time of the American Revolution Marked 1904 by the Morristown Chapter D.A.R. — — Map (db m5679) HM
On South Street at Community Place, on the left when traveling north on South Street.
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 Places . . . — — Map (db m42208) HM
On MacCulloch Ave. at Madison St., on the right when traveling west on MacCulloch Ave..
Between 1840 and 1950, This neighborhood was a center of Irish immigrant life. Residents worked as laborers, domestic help, merchants and civil servants. Later generations were elected to public office and served in the armer forces in large . . . — — Map (db m155591) HM
On South Street, on the right when traveling north.
This bench is dedicated to the countless patriotic American women who have kept alive the Fires of Freedom from Revolutionary times to the present day. Proudly they served. Proudly we remember. — — Map (db m42220) HM
Near Speedwell Avenue (U.S. 202), on the right when traveling north.
The Ford Cottage was built in the early 18th century by Gabriel Ford Jr., the grandson of Col. Jacob Ford Sr., Ironmaster, tavern owner and one of Morristown’s wealthiest citizens. Jacob Ford, Jr., was the builder of the mansion used by . . . — — Map (db m32887) HM
Near East Park Place (New Jersey Route 510) near South Street (New Jersey Route 24), on the right when traveling north.
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
On Morris Avenue, on the left when traveling east.
The Army is quartered within three Miles of this place, in the usual way of hutting. Head Quarters is in this Town, at the Widow Fords, at the great white House at the North end of the place.Major General Nathaniel Greene, December 25, . . . — — Map (db m114771) HM
Near Chestnut Street, on the left when traveling west.
To protect his army and supplies from a British attack, General George Washington ordered the construction of a small fortification on the hill overlooking Morristown during the Spring of 1777. This became known as the “upper redoubt” . . . — — Map (db m7469) HM
On Kahdena Road at Knox Hill Road, on the left when traveling north on Kahdena Road.
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
Near Kahdena Road, on the left when traveling north.
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
Near Lafayette Avenue at Kary Way, on the right when traveling west.
During the American Revolution, a gunpowder mill on this site provided this critical commodity to General Washington’s troops. It was one of only three sources of gunpowder available to them during this time. — — Map (db m42211) HM
Near Speedwell Avenue (U.S. 202), on the right when traveling north.
When not managing the Ironworks, Stephen Vail was often traveling in search of business. The Homestead Carriage House was his center for transportation. The main floor was used to store carriages for the summer and sleighs for the winter. Horses . . . — — Map (db m32876) HM
On Sussex Avenue (NJ 617) at Sunderland Drive on Sussex Avenue (NJ 617).
In 1787-1788 copper for horse head pennies mined here and minted nearby by Walter Mould at John Cleves Symmes’ home. “Solitude” house later became tavern, Wheatsheaf Inn. — — Map (db m91685) HM
Near Chestnut Street, on the left when traveling south.
At Morristown, Washington was close to the northern New Jersey iron furnaces of Hibernia, Pompton, Mount Hope and Ringwood. Cannon balls and shells from these furnaces were on frequent order for the Continental Army during much of the Revolution. . . . — — Map (db m7513) HM
On Speedwell Avenue (U.S. 202) at Sussex Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Speedwell Avenue.
First Jewish place of worship in Morristown incorporated 1899. Present center, housing synagogue, chapel, Hebrew school and related organizations built by descendants of original congregation. — — Map (db m32673) HM
Near Speedwell Avenue (U.S. 202), on the right when traveling north.
The L’Hommedieu House is an excellent example of late 18th/early 19th century domestic architecture. This stylish town house originally stood on Spring Street in Morristown on a lot first owned by Nathaniel L’Hommedieu and later sold to John . . . — — Map (db m32911) HM
George MacCulloch, “Father of the Morris Canal,” and wife Louisa built this 1810-1819 Georgian Mansion. They established Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church. Louisa was first directress of family services of Morris County. The first recorded . . . — — Map (db m91150) HM
On S Park Place (County Route 124) at E Park Place, on the left when traveling south on S Park Place.
(Front):Erected by the people of Morris County, to perpetuate the memory of her soldiers and sailors, who fell during the great Civil War. (Back of Monument):In honor of our heroic dead, who fell martyrs for Union and Liberty. . . . — — Map (db m32687) HM
On Washington Street (County Route 510), on the right when traveling south.
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
Near Chestnut Street, on the left when traveling west.
Morristown was a village of about 70 buildings in 1777.
General George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, brought his tired troops to Morristown for rest and reorganization in January 1777. They had just completed . . . — — Map (db m7471) HM
On Washington Street (County Route 510), on the left when traveling west.
For God and Country Lest we forget Marines * Army Navy * Air Force This monument is dedicated to the men and women of the greater Morristown area who have honorably served and fought for our country from the American Revolution to . . . — — Map (db m42275) HM
On Washington Place, 0.1 miles north of Morris Avenue, on the right when traveling south. Reported missing.
The situation of the army with respect to supplies is beyond description alarming. General George Washington To the Governors of Five States Headquarters, Morristown, December 16, 1779 Welcome to Morristown National Historical Park. . . . — — Map (db m33289) HM
On Morris Street at Dumont Place, on the right when traveling east on Morris Street.
Postal service was inaugurated in Morristown in 1782 and has continued uninterrupted to this date. The Morris Street building dates from 1916. National Register of Historic Places State Register of Historic Places Morris County Historical Society . . . — — Map (db m66748) HM
On South Street at Miller Road, on the right when traveling north on South Street.
In books are sealed what history has penned: What statesmen planned, what captains turned the tide, the humblest heart to Liberty, a friend here shares the faith for which her soldiers died. - Edgar . . . — — Map (db m32793) HM
Near Speedwell Avenue (U.S. 202), on the right when traveling north.
Captain Moses Estey, a veteran of the American Revolution, moved to Morristown in 1783. A successful merchant and manufacturer, he purchased a home on a knoll overlooking the Whippany River at the corner of Water and Spring Streets. When the house . . . — — Map (db m32906) HM
On Mt Kemble Avenue (U.S. 202) at Macculloch Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Mt Kemble Avenue.
Non-sectarian home for deserving elderly women founded by women members of Morristown Presbyterian Church. In continuous service since 1883. Known as “Old Ladies Home” until present name adopted 1950. Morris County Heritage . . . — — Map (db m33834) HM
Near Lafayette Avenue at Kary Way, on the right when traveling west.
New Jersey’s Revolutionary War powder mill, built near this site by Jacob Ford, Jr. in 1776, supplied critically needed gun powder to the Continental Troops. — — Map (db m42210) HM
Near Lake Road south of Bromleigh Way, on the right when traveling east.
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
Near Jockey Hollow Road, on the left when traveling south.
Americans began to commemorate their past by erecting monuments at the end of the 19th century. Monuments started to appear on the old campgrounds of Washington’s army, long before the 1933 establishment of Morristown National Historical Park. . . . — — Map (db m98740) HM
On Tingley Rd. north of Mendham Road (County Route 510), on the right when traveling south.
Also known as the Rock-A-Bye Baby Railroad, the Rockaway Valley Railroad crossed Tingley Road on its way from Whitehouse Station to Watnong.
Beginning in 1892, the train stopped in the Mendhams at Ralston, Mountain Road, Pitney Farm, Brookdale . . . — — Map (db m156156) HM
On South Street (County Route 124) at Miller Road, on the right when traveling south on South Street.
The churches of Medieval England inspired the design of this gothic revival edifice by architects McKim, Mead, and White. Built 1887 – 1911, it replaced an 1828 structure. Features include English stained glass, a 49-bell carillon, a rood . . . — — Map (db m32676) HM
On DeHart Street, on the right when traveling south.
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
Near Jockey Hollow Road, on the right when traveling south.
“We arrived here the 14 Decr. Since which we have been imployed in Hutting . . [and] the weather is aceedingly cold and the snow two feet deep on a level . . . ” Captain William Allen, Angell’s Rhode Island Regiment, January 4, . . . — — Map (db m98736) HM
Near N Park Place, on the left when traveling west.
Court St. is now Park Place Bridge Street is now Speedwell Ave. Basking Ridge Road is now Bank St. Jockey Hollow Road is now Washington St. — — Map (db m32735) HM
Near Chestnut Street, on the left when traveling south.
The alarm beacon was a huge pyramid-shaped structure of logs and brush usually placed on a prominent hilltop. In case of enemy invasion or other emergency situations, it was to be set on fire to notify militiamen to go to preselected meeting places . . . — — Map (db m7517) HM
Near S Park Place, on the left when traveling east.
The Alexander Carmichael House located on the corner of South Street and the Green at what is now 42 Park Place, was occupied by General Nathaniel Greene. Colonel Alexander Hamilton met there with a suspected spy. He had prepared an exaggerated . . . — — Map (db m32726) HM
Near N Park Place at E Park Place, on the left when traveling west.
The Baptist Church on the Green was dedicated in 1771. Its first pastor, the Rev. Reune Runyon was said to have been “an ardent patriot, brave and true”. Like the Presbyterian Church, this building was used as an army hospital in . . . — — Map (db m32777) HM
On Cutler Street, on the right when traveling west.
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
Near Speedwell Avenue (U.S. 202) north of Cory Road, on the right when traveling north.
Early on a cold day in January 1838, a crowd gathered at Speedwell. Just days before, Alfred Vail and Professor Samuel F.B. Morse moved the equipment for their invention, the electromagnetic telegraph, from a workshop across the street at the . . . — — Map (db m32886) HM
On South Park Place, on the left when traveling north.
General George Washington and Colonel Alexander Hamilton are advised at Morristown by the Marquis de Lafayette that the French are coming to support the American cause.
May 10, 1780 — — Map (db m7361) HM
Near Speedwell Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
In 1830, when Stephen Vail purchased the Homestead Farm, the Granary was among the buildings already on the property. It was used to store corn and cereal grains grown on the farm to feed the livestock. The building was built high off the ground . . . — — Map (db m32870) HM
On W Park Place (County Highway 124) at Market Street, on the left when traveling south on W Park Place.
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
Near Speedwell Avenue (U.S. 202), on the right when traveling north.
Speedwell was an agricultural unit as well as an industrial one. Although Stephen Vail was a noted ironmaker, his world was firmly based on a centuries old agrarian lifestyle. The Homestead Farm had to be run with the same care and skill as the . . . — — Map (db m32855) HM
Near Chestnut Street, on the left when traveling west.
The Watchung Mountains belong to a chain of ridges running from New Brunswick to West Point. They shielded the army from the British in New York City and helped protect the roads from Philadelphia to New England by way of West Point.
Located in . . . — — Map (db m7497) HM
On Morris Avenue, on the left when traveling east.
On August 28, 1781, 5500 French troops under the command of General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau marched on the road before you on their way to Yorktown, Virginia. They had spent the previous night in Whippany, New Jersey. . . . — — Map (db m114768) HM
Near E Park Place, on the left when traveling north.
The original wooden church was built in 1738 - 40 on land donated by Benjamin Hathaway and John Lindsley. With two enlargements it appeared as shown (at left) at the time of the American Revolution. It became a hospital for troops in 1777 . . . — — Map (db m32778) HM
On Washington Valley Road, 0.1 miles west of Mendham Road, on the right when traveling west.
World famous center for training dogs to lead blind persons. Founded in 1929 by Dorothy Harrison Eustis as first dog guide school an United States. Present headquarters built 1965. — — Map (db m36858) HM
Near Chestnut Street, on the left when traveling west.
No records exist from historical times to tell us exactly what the fortifications here looked like. Archaeological evidence reveals the location of walls and ditches. The stones you see mark the inside of the walls and form an outline of the . . . — — Map (db m7472) HM
On S Park Place (County Route 510), on the left when traveling north.
This Morristown Green was given by the trustees of the Presbyterian Church in Morristown to the trustees of the Morristown Green in 1816 to be held in trust.
“For the use and enjoyment of the public and to remain as a common . . . — — Map (db m7369) HM
On Washington Street (County Route 510), on the left when traveling west.
English by birth French citizen by decree American by adoption Author of The American Crisis Rights of Man The Age of Reason Your presence may remind Congress (and the people) of your past services to this country. —George Washington Left . . . — — Map (db m8551) HM
On Mills Street, on the right when traveling north.
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
On Speedwell Avenue (U.S. 202) 0.2 miles north of Cory Road, on the right when traveling north.
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
Near Speedwell Avenue (U.S. 202), on the right when traveling north.
The original structure that became the Vail House was probably built in the 1790’s by Thomas Kinney. Stephen Vail, the proprietor of the nearby Speedwell Ironworks, acquired the property in the 1830’s. In 1844 Stephen extensively renovated what was . . . — — Map (db m32896) HM
On Washington Place at Morris Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Washington Place. Reported missing.
Washington made his winter headquarters at the Arnold Tavern, January 6, 1777, now a part of All Souls Hospital. December, 1779, he established quarters at the Ford Mansion, now maintained as a museum. — — Map (db m5946) HM
On Morris Avenue near Washington Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Washington made his winter headquarters at the Arnold Tavern, January 6, 1777, now a part of All Souls Hospital. December, 1779, he established quarters at the Ford Mansion, now maintained as a museum. — — Map (db m33177) HM
Near Washington Place, on the right when traveling south.
Completed in 1937, the Washington’s Headquarters Museum was one of the first museums planned and constructed by the National Park Service. Noted architect John Russell Pope designed the museum to memorialize General George Washington and to . . . — — Map (db m114775) HM
Near Speedwell Avenue (U.S. 202), on the right when traveling north.
Originally water for the Factory waterwheel was supplied from the Upper Pond, or reservoir, which was located beyond the housing development behind you. When the wheel was installed, the water from the pond was piped under ground to the standpipe. . . . — — Map (db m32894) HM
On Washington St. at Schuyler Place, on the right when traveling south on Washington St..
★ The site of two Revolutionary War winter encampments for the Continental Army.
★ One of the nation's major iron-producing centers of the 18th and 19th centuries.
★ Know for construction of the Morris Canal, . . . — — Map (db m176851) HM
Near Speedwell Avenue (U.S. 202), on the right when traveling north.
Today, electric power makes it possible to locate factories in convenient places close to transportation. In the early 1800’s, Stephen Vail built his ironworks not in the center of town but in a narrow ravine where the Whippany River could be . . . — — Map (db m32869) HM
On Whippany Road at Woodruff Road, on the left when traveling north on Whippany Road.
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
Near Speedwell Avenue (U.S. 202), on the right when traveling north.
Stephen Vail employed a large workforce to operate his Ironworks and to maintain his estate. Some of these workers lived on the property. Early views show that a number of worker houses once stood along the road forming a little village. They . . . — — Map (db m135090) HM
On Mt. Kemble Avenue (U.S. 202), on the right when traveling south.
1847 Gothic Revival villa, “Mount Kemble,” built for Henry and Frances Duer Hoyt on the site of the house of colonial official Peter Kemble, reluctant host to Continental Army. Renamed “Glen Alpin” by David H. McAlpin in 1885. — — Map (db m8594) HM
On Woodland Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Dedicated to the Members of the Armed Services,
The Sung and the Unsung,
The Known and the Unknown,
The Returned and the Remaining,
Beloved Heroes All
Who
In Latitudes and Longitudes
Near and Remote, In Times
Recent and Distant, Did . . . — — Map (db m18225) WM
Near Knox Hill Road, 0.1 miles west of Kahdena Road, on the left when traveling west.
Built 1891 for
Major and Mrs. Charles Curtis MacConnell
Designed by
Ernest G.W. Dietrich, Architect, New York City
Built by
Lindsey Brothers, Middletown, New York
Is part of the
Washington Valley
Historic District
and has been . . . — — Map (db m150857) HM
On Spring Valley Road at Van Beuren Road, on the right when traveling east on Spring Valley Road.
By this route, Washington, with his army, retired to Morristown after his victory at Princeton, January 1777.
Erected by the D.A.R. — — Map (db m221656) HM
