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Morristown () is a
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and the
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of Morris County, in the
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of
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.New Jersey County Map
New Jersey Department of State. Accessed July 10, 2017. Morristown has been called "the military capital of the
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" because of its strategic role in the war for independence from Great Britain. Today this history is visible in a variety of locations throughout the town that collectively make up
Morristown National Historical Park Morristown National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park, headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, consisting of four sites important during the American Revolutionary War: Jockey Hollow, the Ford Mansion, Fort Nonsense ...
. According to British colonial records, the first permanent settlement at Morristown occurred in 1715, when a settlement was founded as ''New Hanover'' by colonists from New York and Connecticut. Morris County was created on March 15, 1739, from portions of
Hunterdon County Hunterdon County is a county located in the western section of the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the county's population was 128,947, making it the state's 18th-most populous county,Lewis Morris, who championed land ownership rights for colonists. Morristown was incorporated as a town by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 6, 1865, within Morris Township, and it was formally set off from the township in 1895.Snyder, John P
''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968''
Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 195. Accessed July 19, 2012. As of the
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, the town's population was 18,411,DP-1 - Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 for Morristown town, Morris County, New Jersey
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. Accessed July 19, 2012.Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2010 for Morristown town
,
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. Accessed July 19, 2012. reflecting a decline of 133 (−0.7%) from the 18,544 counted in the 2000 census, which had in turn increased by 2,355 (+14.5%) from the 16,189 counted in the 1990 census.


History

The area was inhabited by the
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Native Americans for up to 6,000 years prior to exploration of Europeans. The first European settlements in this portion of New Jersey were established by the Swedes and Dutch in the early 17th century, when a significant trade in furs existed between the natives and the Europeans at temporary posts. It became part of the Dutch colony of ''
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'', but the English seized control of the region in 1664, which was granted to Sir George Carteret and John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, as the ''
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''.


Eighteenth century

Morristown was settled around 1715 by English Presbyterians from
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on Long Island and
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as the village of New Hanover.Staff
"Morristown Timeline"
'' Daily Record'', March 23, 2000. Accessed July 19, 2012. "1715 - The Green is established as the center of the community of Morristown, then known as West Hanover, or New Hanover.... 1740 - Morris County separates from Hunterdon County and about half of the new county becomes the Township of Morris. As the most promising village in the county, West Hanover changes its name to Morristown, in honor of Lewis Morris, the first governor of the colony of New Jersey after it separated from New York." The town's central location and road connections led to its selection as the seat of the new Morris County shortly after its separation from
Hunterdon County Hunterdon County is a county located in the western section of the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the county's population was 128,947, making it the state's 18th-most populous county,Lewis Morris, the first and then sitting royal governor of a united colony of
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. By the middle of the 18th century, Morristown had 250 residents, with two churches, a courthouse, two taverns, two schools, several stores, and numerous mills and farms nearby.
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first came to Morristown in May 1773, two years before the Revolutionary War broke out, and traveled from there to New York City together with
John Parke Custis John Parke Custis (November 27, 1754 – November 5, 1781) was an American planter. He was a son of Martha Washington and stepson of George Washington. Childhood A son of Daniel Parke Custis, a wealthy planter with nearly three hundred enslave ...
(his stepson) and
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. In 1777, General
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and the Continental Army marched from the victories at Trenton and Princeton to encamp near Morristown from January to May. Washington had his headquarters during that first encampment at Jacob Arnold's Tavern, located at the
Morristown Green Morristown Green, most commonly referred to as the Green, is a historical park located in the center of Morristown, New Jersey. It has an area of two and a half acres and has in the past served as a military base, a militia training ground, ...
in the center of the town. Morristown was selected for its extremely strategic location. It was between Philadelphia and New York and near New England while being protected by the Watchung Mountains from the bulk of continental British forces camped in New York City. It also was chosen for the skills and trades of the residents, local industries and natural resources to provide arms, and what was thought to be the ability of the community to provide enough food to support the army. The churches were used for inoculations for
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. That first headquarters, Arnold's Tavern, was eventually moved south of the green onto Mount Kemble Avenue to become All Souls' Hospital in the late 19th century. It suffered a fire in 1918, and the original structure was demolished, but new buildings for the hospital were built directly across the street. From December 1779 to June 1780 the Continental Army's second encampment at Morristown was at
Jockey Hollow Jockey Hollow is the name for an area in southern Morris County, New Jersey farmed in the 18th century by the Wick, Guerin and Kemble families. The origin of the name is still uncertain, but was used as such at the time of the American Revolution ...
. Then, Washington's headquarters in Morristown was located at the
Ford Mansion The Ford Mansion, also known as Washington's Headquarters, is a classic 18th-century American home located at 30 Washington Place in Morristown, New Jersey. It was built by Jacob Ford Jr. in 1774 and is now owned by the National Park Service. I ...
, a large mansion near what was then the edge of town. Ford's widow and children shared the house with
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and officers of the Continental Army. The winter of 1780 was the worst winter of the Revolutionary War. The starvation was complicated by extreme inflation of money and lack of pay for the army. The entire Pennsylvania contingent successfully mutinied and later, 200 New Jersey soldiers attempted to emulate them (unsuccessfully). Many soldiers died, due to weak health. During Washington's second stay, in March 1780, he declared St. Patrick's Day a holiday to honor his many Irish troops. Martha Washington traveled from Virginia and remained with her husband each winter throughout the war. The
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came to Washington in Morristown to inform him that France would be sending ships and trained soldiers to aid the Continental Army. The Ford Mansion, Jockey Hollow, and Fort Nonsense are all preserved as part of
Morristown National Historical Park Morristown National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park, headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, consisting of four sites important during the American Revolutionary War: Jockey Hollow, the Ford Mansion, Fort Nonsense ...
managed by the
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, which has the distinction among
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ists of being the first
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established in the United States. During Washington's stay, Benedict Arnold was court-martialed at Dickerson's Tavern, on Spring Street, for charges related to profiteering from military supplies at Philadelphia. His admonishment was made public, but Washington quietly promised the hero, Arnold, to make it up to him. Alexander Hamilton courted and wed Elizabeth Schuyler at a residence where Washington's personal physician was billeted. Locally known as the Schuyler-Hamilton House, the
Dr. Jabez Campfield House The Dr. Jabez Campfield House, also known as the Schuyler Hamilton House, is a historic, two-story, braced timber-frame colonial Georgian-style house and museum located at 5 Olyphant Place, Morristown, New Jersey. It is listed on the National R ...
is listed on both the New Jersey and National Register of Historic Places. The Morristown Green has a statue commemorating the meeting of George Washington, the young Marquis de LaFayette, and young Alexander Hamilton depicting them discussing forthcoming aid of French tall ships and troops being sent by King
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to aid the Continental Army. Morristown's Burnham Park has a statue of the "Father of the American Revolution",
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, who wrote the pamphlet ''
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'', which urged a complete break from British rule. The bronze statue, by sculptor
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, shows Paine in 1776 (using a drum as a table during the withdrawal of the army across New Jersey) composing ''Crisis 1''. He wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls..." The statue was dedicated on July 4, 1950.


Nineteenth century

The idea for constructing the
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is credited to Morristown businessman George P. Macculloch, who in 1822 convened a group to discuss his concept for a canal. The group included
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Isaac Halstead Williamson, which led to approval of the proposal by the New Jersey Legislature later that year. The canal was used for a century. In July 1825 during his 15 month return tour of the United States, the Marquis de Lafayette returned to Morristown, where a ball was held in his honor at the 1807 Sansay House on DeHart Street (the edifice still stands as of 2011). In 1827, St. Peter's Episcopal Church was founded at the behest of Bishop George Washington Doane and many prominent Morristown Families, including George P. Macculloch, of the Morris Canal. When the Church was rebuilt by the then-internationally famous architectural firm,
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, beginning in 1889, the congregation erected one of the United States finest church buildings –a stone, English-gothic church complete with fined stained glass, and a long, decorated interior. Antoine le Blanc, a French immigrant laborer, murdered the Sayre family and their servant (or possibly slave), Phoebe. He was tried and convicted of murder of the Sayres (but not of Phoebe) on August 13, 1833. On September 6, 1833, Le Blanc became the last person hanged on the Morristown Green. Until late 2006, the house where the murders were committed was known as "Jimmy's Haunt," which is purported to be haunted by Phoebe's ghost because her murder never saw justice. Jimmy's Haunt was torn down to make way for a bank in 2007.
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and
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built the first
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at the
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in Morristown on January 6, 1838. The first telegraph message was ''A patient waiter is no loser''. The first public demonstration of the invention occurred five days later as an early step toward the
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. Jacob Arnold's Tavern, the first headquarters for Washington in Morristown and site of Benedict Arnold's 1780 trial, was purchased by Morristown historian Julia Keese Nelson Colles (1840-1913) to save it from demolition in 1886. It was moved by horse-power in the winter of 1887 from "the green" (after being stuck on Bank Street for about six weeks) to a site south on Mount Kemble Avenue at what is now a parking lot for the Atlantic RIMM Rehabilitation Hospital. It became a boarding house for four years until it was converted by the Grey Nuns from
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into All Souls' Hospital, the first general hospital in Morris County. George and Martha Washington's second floor ballroom became a chapel and the first floor tavern became a ward for patients. In 1910, the late Augustus Lefebvre Revere (brother of hospital founder
Paul Revere Paul Revere (; December 21, 1734 O.S. (January 1, 1735 N.S.)May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, Sons of Liberty member, and Patriot and Founding Father. He is best known for his midnight ride to a ...
) willed the Hospital $10,000 to be used for the erection of a new building.Undated newspaper clipping, “Mr. Revere's Bequests.” Fosterfields cabinet, Subject Research Files > Paul & Augustus Revere. This fund was used 8 years later when the original Arnold's Tavern building was lost to a fire. The entire organization, nurses, doctors, and patients of All Souls' Hospital were then moved across Mount Kemble Avenue,
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, to the newly built brick hospital building.Undated newspaper clipping, “Mr. Revere's Bequests.” Fosterfields cabinet, Subject Research Files > Paul & Augustus Revere. All Souls' was set to close because of financial difficulties in the late 1960s. In 1973, it became Community Medical Center. In 1977, the center became bankrupt and was purchased by the then new and larger Morristown Memorial Hospital, which is now the Morristown Medical Center. On December 18, 1843, the Bethel
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was incorporated. This was the first congregation established by blacks in Morris County. It is still active. The first site of the Church was located at 13 Spring Street and served as the only schoolhouse for colored children until 1870. The Church relocated to its present site at 59 Spring Street in 1874. The first Jews moved to Morristown in the 1850s, but much larger numbers of
Ashkenazi Jews Ashkenazi Jews ( ; he, יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, translit=Yehudei Ashkenaz, ; yi, אַשכּנזישע ייִדן, Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or ''Ashkenazim'',, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: , singu ...
migrated to the region from Eastern Europe in the 1890s, which led to the incorporation of the Morristown Jewish Center in 1899. Today there are several Jewish synagogues in Morristown reflecting the diversity of the community. In the 1880s, the town's residents were primarily farmers. The small amount of stores in the Morristown Green town center were only open during the evening to accomodate farmers who did not leave their work during the daytime. There were only a few stores in town, including
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grocers and P. H. Hoffman & Son clothiers, both located in the
Arnold's Tavern Jacob Arnold's Tavern, also known as the Old Arnold Tavern and the Duncan House, was a "famous" historic tavern established by Samuel Arnold circa 1740. Until 1886, it was located in Morristown Green in Morristown, New Jersey. In 1777 it served a ...
on the Morristown Green.Foster, Caroline. "Oral History Caroline Morristown," November 9, 1967. Interview conducted by Clayton Smith. Available from the Morris County Park Commission archives at Historic Sites\FosterFields\Oral Histories.


Gilded Age of Morristown

Starting in the mid-1800s, Morristown became a popular summer retreat for some of New York City's wealthiest residents. From the 1870s onwards, immense estates were built up along once rural thoroughfares; Madison Avenue, which runs along Morristown and
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became known as "the street of the 100 millionaires" due to the sheer extravagance of the houses that were constructed. Between 1880 and 1929, the Gilded Age of Morristown occurred, when dozens of "millionaires with large fortunes built their estates" in Morristown and Morris Township.Overview: Township of Morris
Morris Township. Accessed December 8, 2022. In the
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farm. It was later managed by Caroline Rose Foster, though most of its herd was sold in a 1927 auction. In 1979 it was donated to the
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. The site currently houses a living history museum and Revere's historic house. In 1889, Christian charity organization Market Street Mission was established on 9 Market Street beside the
Morristown Green Morristown Green, most commonly referred to as the Green, is a historical park located in the center of Morristown, New Jersey. It has an area of two and a half acres and has in the past served as a military base, a militia training ground, ...
. As of 2022, the organization continues to operate a homeless shelter, meals, and emergency services, along with men's drug addiction recovery groups, community counseling, a chapel, and a thrift store. The Gilded Age of Morristown ended in 1929, due to the "high cost of maintaining the estates, increasing income taxes, and the stock market crash" that led to the Great Depression. The Morris Township reports, "Many of the mansions were closed or sold, and some burned."


20th century to present

Since 1929, more than 16,000
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s for the blind from The Seeing Eye, Inc., the oldest such school in the U.S., have been trained on the streets of Morristown. On January 5, 2009, five red lights were spotted in the Morristown area night skies, who gained significant press coverage and 9-1-1 calls. On April 1, 2009, the perpetrators revealed their hoax by publicizing footage of its creation, which consisted of helium balloons and flares. The event became nationally known as the Morristown UFO hoax.


Geography

According to the
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, Morristown town had a total area of 3.01 square miles (7.79 km2), including 2.91 square miles (7.53 km2) of land and 0.10 square miles (0.25 km2) of water (3.26%). Morristown is completely surrounded by Morris Township, making it part of 21 pairs of "doughnut towns" in the state, where one municipality entirely surrounds another. The downtown shopping and business district of Morristown is centered around a square park, known as the Morristown Green. It is a former market square from Morristown's colonial days.


Climate

Morristown has a
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(
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Dfa/Dfb) with hot, humid summers and moderately cold winters.


Demographics


2010 Census

The Census Bureau's 2006–2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars)
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was $64,279 (with a margin of error of +/− $5,628) and the median family income was $66,070 (+/− $3,638). Males had a median income of $51,242 (+/− $6,106) versus $44,315 (+/− $5,443) for females. The
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for the borough was $37,573 (+/− $2,286). About 10.2% of families and 9.5% of the population were below the
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, including 16.1% of those under age 18 and 8.8% of those age 65 or over.


2000 Census

As of the
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there were 18,544 people, 7,252 households, and 3,698 families residing in the town. The
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was 6,303.9 people per square mile (2,435.3/km2). There were 7,615 housing units at an average density of 2,588.7 per square mile (1,000.1/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 67.63%
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, 16.95%
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or
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, 0.22% Native American, 3.77% Asian, 0.06%
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, 8.48% from
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, and 3.36% from two or more races.
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or
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people of any race were 27.15% of the population.Census 2000 Profiles of Demographic / Social / Economic / Housing Characteristics for Morristown town
,
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. Accessed December 27, 2011.DP-1: Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000 - Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF 1) 100-Percent Data for Morristown town, Morris County, New Jersey
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. Accessed July 19, 2012. 9.8% of Morristown residents identified themselves as being of
Colombian American Colombian Americans ( es, Colomboestadounidenses), are Americans who trace their ancestry to Colombia. The word may refer to someone born in the United States of full or partial Colombian descent or to someone who has immigrated to the United Sta ...
ancestry in the 2000 Census, the eighth- highest percentage of the population of any municipality in the United States. 4.5% of Morristown residents identified themselves as being of
Honduran American Honduran Americans ( es, link=no, honduro-americano, or ) are Americans who trace their roots to Honduras, Honduran Americans belong to one or more of the follow ethnic groups such as mestizo, white, Lenca, Ladino people, Miskito people, Gar ...
ancestry in the 2000 Census, the sixth-highest percentage of the population of any municipality in the United States. There were 7,252 households, out of which 22.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 34.4% were married couples living together, 12.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 49.0% were non-families. 38.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.43 and the average family size was 3.19. In the town, the population was spread out, with 18.4% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 40.4% from 25 to 44, 20.0% from 45 to 64, and 12.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.7 males. The median income for a household in the town was $57,563, and the median income for a family was $66,419. Males had a median income of $42,363 versus $37,045 for females. The
per capita income Per capita income (PCI) or total income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year. It is calculated by dividing the area's total income by its total population. Per capita i ...
for the town was $30,086. About 7.1% of families and 11.5% of the population were below the
poverty line The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country. The poverty line is usually calculated by estimating the total cost of one year's worth of necessities for t ...
, including 11.5% of those under age 18 and 14.3% of those age 65 or over.


Economy

Companies based in Morristown include Capsugel,
Covanta Energy Covanta Holding Corporation is a private energy-from-waste and industrial waste management services company headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey. Most of its revenue comes from operating power plants that burn trash as fuel. Covanta charges a ...
,
Louis Berger Group Louis Berger (formerly known as Berger Group Holdings) is a full-service engineering, architecture, planning, environmental, program and construction management and economic development firm based in Morristown, New Jersey. Founded in 1953 in ...
,
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and the
Morristown & Erie Railway Morristown & Erie Railway is a short-line railroad based in Morristown, New Jersey, chartered in 1895 as the Whippany River Railroad. It operates freight rail service in Morris County, New Jersey and surrounding areas on the original Whippany ...
, a local short-line freight railway and
Honeywell Honeywell International Inc. is an American publicly traded, multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It primarily operates in four areas of business: aerospace, building technologies, performance ma ...
. Morristown Medical Center, with 5,500 employees, is Morristown's largest employer. In a ruling issued in June 2015, Tax Court Judge Vito Bianco ruled that the hospital would be required to pay property taxes on nearly all of its campus in the town.


Arts and culture


Main sites

*
Morristown National Historical Park Morristown National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park, headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, consisting of four sites important during the American Revolutionary War: Jockey Hollow, the Ford Mansion, Fort Nonsense ...
– Four historic sites around Morristown associated with the American Revolutionary War, including
Jockey Hollow Jockey Hollow is the name for an area in southern Morris County, New Jersey farmed in the 18th century by the Wick, Guerin and Kemble families. The origin of the name is still uncertain, but was used as such at the time of the American Revolution ...
, a park that includes a visitor center, the Revolution-era Wick farm, encampment site of
George Washington George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of ...
's Continental Army, and around 25 miles of hiking trails, and the Washington's Headquarters & Ford Mansion, a Revolution-era Georgian-style mansion used by George Washington as his headquarters during the Jockey Hollow encampment. *
Morristown Green Morristown Green, most commonly referred to as the Green, is a historical park located in the center of Morristown, New Jersey. It has an area of two and a half acres and has in the past served as a military base, a militia training ground, ...
– Park at the center of town which was the old town "common" or "green." It is the site of several Revolutionary War and Civil war monuments (including one with George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Marquis De Lafayette discussing the arrival of French aid to the colonies), and is surrounded by historic churches, the colonial county-courthouse, and a shopping and restaurant district. * St. Peter's Episcopal Church – Large McKim Mead and White church with bell tower, fine stained glass and medieval furnishings. *
Acorn Hall Acorn Hall is an 1853 Victorian architecture, Victorian Italianate mansion located at 68 Morris Avenue in Morristown, New Jersey, Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 3, 1973, f ...
– 1853
Victorian Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...
mansion and home to the Morris County Historical Society. Donated to the historical society in 1971 by Mary Crane Hone, the mansion retained much of its original furnishings and accouterments as it remained in the same family for over a century. It is currently operated as a museum and is the headquarters of the Morris County Historical Society. *
Morris Museum Actively running since 1913, the Morris Museum is the second largest museum in New Jersey at . The museum is fully accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. Museum history 1913–1957: early years The Morris Children's Museum was founde ...
– formally incorporated in 1943. The museum's permanent displays include rocks, minerals, fossils, animal mounts, a model railroad, and Native American crafts, pottery, carving, basketry and textiles. *
Mayo Performing Arts Center The Mayo Performing Arts Center (MayoPAC) is a nonprofit multi-use performing arts center located in Morristown, New Jersey, United States. History The Community Theatre was built in 1937 and was once the crown jewel of Walter Reade's chain o ...
– a former Walter Reade movie theater originally constructed in 1937 that has been converted into a 1,302-seat performing arts center. *
The Seeing Eye The Seeing Eye, Inc. is a guide dog school located in Morristown, New Jersey, in the United States. Founded in 1929, the Seeing Eye is the oldest guide dog school in the U.S., and one of the largest. The Seeing Eye campus includes administra ...
– the first school in North America for training and connecting
guide dog Guide dogs (colloquially known in the US as seeing-eye dogs) are assistance dogs trained to lead blind or visually impaired people around obstacles. Although dogs can be trained to navigate various obstacles, they are red–green colour blin ...
s with blind and visually impaired students. *
Speedwell Ironworks Speedwell Ironworks was an ironworks in Speedwell Village, on Speedwell Avenue (part of U.S. Route 202), just north of downtown Morristown, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. At this site Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse first demonstrate ...
– a
National Historic Landmark A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance. Only some 2,500 (~3%) of over 90,000 places listed ...
and museum at the site where the
electric telegraph Electrical telegraphs were point-to-point text messaging systems, primarily used from the 1840s until the late 20th century. It was the first electrical telecommunications system and the most widely used of a number of early messaging systems ...
was first presented to the public, on January 11, 1838.


Sports

The New Jersey Stampede (formerly the Minutemen) are a professional
inline hockey Roller inline hockey, or inline hockey is a variant of hockey played on a hard, smooth surface, with players using inline skates to move and ice hockey sticks to shoot a hard, plastic puck into their opponent's goal to score points. The spo ...
team that competes in the
Professional Inline Hockey Association The Professional Inline Hockey Association (PIHA) is an "incorporated for-profit association" which operates an inline hockey league, with two conferences, of 11 franchised member clubs, all of which are currently located in the United States. H ...
. The
United States Equestrian Team The United States Equestrian Team (USET) refers to the American national teams in Olympic and non-Olympic disciplines of horse sport. US Equestrian, the governing body of horse sport in the United States, selects, trains and funds the teams. The O ...
, the international equestrian team for the United States, was founded in 1950 at the Coates estate on van Beuren Road in Morristown. Morristown has a cricketing club, the first in North America. The Morristown 1776 Association Football Club is a soccer club that competes in the North Jersey Soccer League and MCSSA.


Historic sites

Morristown is home to the following locations on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
: *
Acorn Hall Acorn Hall is an 1853 Victorian architecture, Victorian Italianate mansion located at 68 Morris Avenue in Morristown, New Jersey, Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 3, 1973, f ...
– 68 Morris Avenue (added 1973) * Boisaubin Manor – Southeast of Morristown on Treadwell Avenue (added 1976) *
Dr. Jabez Campfield House The Dr. Jabez Campfield House, also known as the Schuyler Hamilton House, is a historic, two-story, braced timber-frame colonial Georgian-style house and museum located at 5 Olyphant Place, Morristown, New Jersey. It is listed on the National R ...
– 5 Olyphant Place (added 2008) * Dr. Lewis Condict House – 51 South Street (added 1973) * Cutler Homestead – 21 Cutler Street (added 1975) * Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Station – 132 Morris Street (added 1980) *
Fordville Fordville is a city in Walsh County, North Dakota, Walsh County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 207 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Fordville was founded in 1905. Geography Fordville is located at (48.216936, − ...
– East of Morristown at 30 Ford Hill Road (added 1978) * Glanville Blacksmith Shop – 47 Bank Street (added 1987) * Jenkins-Mead House – 14 Revere Road (added 1997) * Lindenwold – 247 South Street (added 1986) * Timothy Mills House – 27 Mills Street (added 1975) * Morris County Courthouse – Washington St. between Court Street and Western Avenue (added 1977) * Morristown District – Roughly bounded by the cemetery, King Place, Madison and Colles Avenues., DeHart Street, and North Park Place (added 1973), Boundary Increase Irregularly bounded by Lackawanna, Franklin Place, James Street, Ogden Place, Doughty, Mt. Kemble, Western, and Speedwell Avenues (added 1986) *
Morristown National Historical Park Morristown National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park, headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, consisting of four sites important during the American Revolutionary War: Jockey Hollow, the Ford Mansion, Fort Nonsense ...
– At junction of U.S. 202 and NJ 24 (added 1966) * Morristown School – Junction of Whippany Road and Hanover Avenue, Morris Township (added 1996) * Mount Kemble Home – 1 Mt. Kemble Avenue (added 1986) * Thomas Nast Home – MacCulloch Avenue and Miller Road (added 1966) * Normandy Park Historic District – Normandy Parkway, between Columbia Turnpike and Madison Avenue, Morris Township (added 1996) * Oak Dell – Franklin Street and Madison Avenue (added 1986) *
Joseph W. Revere House Fosterfields, also known as Fosterfields Living Historical Farm, is a farm and open-air museum at the junction of Mendham and Kahdena Roads in Morris Township, New Jersey. The oldest structure on the farm, the Ogden House, was built in 1774. List ...
– Northwest of Morristown on Mendham Avenue (added 1973), Fosterfields Boundary Increase at junction of Mendham and Kahdena Roads, Morris Township (added 1991) *
Speedwell Village-The Factory Speedwell Ironworks was an ironworks in Speedwell Village, on Speedwell Avenue (part of U.S. Route 202), just north of downtown Morristown, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. At this site Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse first demonstrate ...
– 333 Speedwell Avenue (added 1974) * Spring Brook House – 167 James Street (added 1986) * Thorne and Eddy Estates – East of Morristown on Columbia Road (added 1978) * Whippany Farm – 53 East Hanover Avenue (added 1977) * Willow Hall – 330 Speedwell Avenue (added 2011)


Government


Local government

Morristown is governed within the Faulkner Act, formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter Law, under a Plan F Mayor-Council system of New Jersey municipal government, which went into effect on January 1, 1974.''2012 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book'',
Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy of Rutgers University (The Bloustein School) serves as a center for the theory and practice of urban planning, public policy and public health/health administration scholarship. The sc ...
, March 2013, p. 116. The town is one of 71 municipalities (of the 564) statewide that use this form of government. The Morristown Town Council is comprised of seven members, of which three members are elected at-large representing the entire town and one representative is chosen from each of the town's four wards. Members are elected on a partisan basis to four-year terms of office on a staggered basis in odd-numbered years as part of the November general election, with the four ward seats up for vote together and the at-large and mayoral seats up for vote together two years later. As the legislative arm of the government, the council is responsible for making and setting policy for the town. , the
Mayor In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilities of a mayor as well ...
of Morristown is
Democrat Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to: Politics *A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people. *A member of a Democratic Party: **Democratic Party (United States) (D) **Democratic ...
Timothy Dougherty, whose term of office ends December 31, 2025.Mayor Timothy Dougherty
Town of Morristown. Accessed April 16, 2022. Members of the Morristown Town Council are Council President Stefan Armington (D, Ward III, 2023), Council Vice President Toshiba Foster (D; At Large, 2025), Tawanna Cotten (D, Ward II, 2023), Robert Iannaccone ( I, Ward I, 2023), Sandi Mayer (D; Ward IV, 2023), David Silva (D; At Large, 2025) and Nathan Umbriac (D; At Large, 2025).''Morris County Manual 2022''
Morris County, New Jersey Clerk. Accessed April 12, 2022.''Morris County Municipal Elected Officials For The Year 2020''
Morris County, New Jersey Clerk, updated March 3, 2022. Accessed April 12, 2022.General Election Winners For November 2, 2021
Morris County, New Jersey Clerk. Accessed January 1, 2022.General Election November 5, 2019, Official Results
Morris County, New Jersey, updated November 15, 2019. Accessed January 31, 2020. In 2019, Mary Dougherty, wife of Mayor Tim Dougherty was criminally charged with accepting bribe money from Attorney Matt O'Donnell. Mary had been running for a seat on the Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders in 2018 when O'Donnell offered her $10,000, presumably to help him get awarded more contracts from the county for legal work."AG Grewal Announces Criminal Charges Against Five Public Officials and Political Candidates in Major Corruption Investigation"
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, December 19, 2019. Accessed July 12, 2022. "Mary Dougherty, a real estate agent from Morristown, allegedly accepted a bribe of $10,000 from the cooperating witness – initially delivered as cash but later converted to checks from 'straw donors' – for her unsuccessful campaign for Morris County Freeholder in 2018. In return, she allegedly promised to support the reappointment of the cooperating witness as counsel for Morris County."Mary Dougherty Criminal Complaint
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, December 19, 2019. Accessed July 12, 2022. In a plea agreement, Mary pled guilty in February 2021 to a reduced charge of falsifying a campaign finance report in exchange for dropping the bribery charge; she would face probation and a fine of $10,000.


Federal, state, and county representation

Morristown is located in the 11th Congressional DistrictPlan Components Report
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, December 23, 2011. Accessed February 1, 2020. and is part of New Jersey's 25th state legislative district.Municipalities Sorted by 2011-2020 Legislative District
New Jersey Department of State. Accessed February 1, 2020.''2019 New Jersey Citizen's Guide to Government''
New Jersey League of Women Voters. Accessed October 30, 2019. Morris County is governed by a Board of County Commissioners comprised of seven members who are elected at-large in partisan elections to three-year terms on a staggered basis, with either one or three seats up for election each year as part of the November general election. Actual day-to-day operation of departments is supervised by County Administrator, John Bonanni.''Morris County Manual 2022''
Morris County Clerk. Accessed June 1, 2022. , Morris County's Commissioners are Commissioner Director Tayfun Selen ( R, Chatham Township, term as commissioner ends December 31, 2023; term as director ends 2022), Commissioner Deputy Director John Krickus (R, Washington Township, term as commissioner ends 2024; term as deputy director ends 2022), Douglas Cabana (R, Boonton Township, 2022), Kathryn A. DeFillippo (R, Roxbury, 2022), Thomas J. Mastrangelo (R, Montville, 2022), Stephen H. Shaw (R,
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, 2024) and Deborah Smith (R, Denville, 2024). The county's constitutional officers are the County Clerk and County Surrogate (both elected for five-year terms of office) and the
County Sheriff A sheriff is a government official, with varying duties, existing in some countries with historical ties to England where the office originated. There is an analogous, although independently developed, office in Iceland that is commonly transla ...
(elected for a three-year term). , they are County Clerk Ann F. Grossi (R, Parsippany–Troy Hills, 2023), Sheriff James M. Gannon (R, Boonton Township, 2022) and Surrogate Heather Darling (R, Roxbury, 2024).


Politics

As of June 4, 2019, a total of 11,330 voters were registered in Morristown, of which 5,087 (44.9%) were Democrats, 2,208 (19.5%) Republicans, and 4,035 (35.6%) were registered as Unaffiliated.


Presidential elections

In the
2016 presidential election This national electoral calendar for 2016 lists the national/ federal elections held in 2016 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included. January *7 January: Kiri ...
, Democrat
Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State for President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a United States sen ...
received 67.4% of the vote (4,984 votes), ahead of Republican
Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of P ...
with 27.5% (2,033 votes), and other candidates with 5.1% (294 votes), among the 7,470 ballots cast by the town's 11,060 voters, for a turnout of 67.5%. In the
2012 presidential election This national electoral calendar for 2012 lists the national/ federal elections held in 2012 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included. January *3–4 January ...
, Democrat
Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the ...
received 67.1% of the vote (4,485 cast), ahead of Republican Mitt Romney with 31.7% (2,117 votes), and other candidates with 1.2% (79 votes), among the 6,727 ballots cast by the town's 10,212 registered voters (46 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 65.9%. In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 68.1% of the vote (4,738 cast), ahead of Republican John McCain with 30.0% (2,084 votes) and other candidates with 1.0% (67 votes), among the 6,953 ballots cast by the town's 9,741 registered voters, for a turnout of 71.4%. In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat
John Kerry John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician and diplomat who currently serves as the first United States special presidential envoy for climate. A member of the Forbes family and the Democratic Party, he ...
received 62.8% of the vote (4,138 ballots cast), outpolling Republican
George W. Bush George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he ...
with 35.9% (2,370 votes) and other candidates with 0.5% (53 votes), among the 6,593 ballots cast by the town's 9,890 registered voters, for a turnout percentage of 66.7.


Gubernatorial elections

In the 2017 gubernatorial election, Democrat
Phil Murphy Philip Dunton Murphy (born August 16, 1957) is an American financier, diplomat, and politician serving as the 56th governor of New Jersey since January 2018. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the United States ambassador to Germa ...
received 68.44% of the vote (2,758 votes), ahead of Republican
Kim Guadagno Kimberly Ann Guadagno (; ''née'' McFadden; born April 13, 1959) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the first lieutenant governor and 33rd secretary of state of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018. Guadagno was the Republican nominee ...
with 29.6% (1,194 votes), and other candidates with 1.9% (78 votes), among the 4,164 ballots cast by the town's 10,901 voters, for a turnout of 38.2%. In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Republican
Chris Christie Christopher James Christie (born September 6, 1962) is an American politician, lawyer, political commentator, lobbyist, and former federal prosecutor who served as the 55th governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018. Christie, who was born in N ...
received 52.7% of the vote (1,871 cast), ahead of Democrat
Barbara Buono Barbara A. Buono (born July 28, 1953) is an American politician who served in the New Jersey Senate from 2002 to 2014, where she represented the 18th Legislative District. She served from 2010 to 2012 as the Majority Leader in the Senate, succ ...
with 45.2% (1,602 votes), and other candidates with 2.1% (75 votes), among the 3,780 ballots cast by the town's 10,124 registered voters (232 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 37.3%. In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Democrat
Jon Corzine Jon Stevens Corzine ( ; born January 1, 1947) is an American financial executive and retired politician who served as a United States Senator from New Jersey from 2001 to 2006 and the 54th governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010. Corzine ran fo ...
received 52.1% of the vote (2,263 ballots cast), ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 37.4% (1,623 votes), Independent
Chris Daggett Christopher Jarvis Daggett (born March 7, 1950) is an American businessman who is the president and CEO of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, one of the largest foundations in New Jersey. A former regional administrator of the United States En ...
with 8.1% (350 votes) and other candidates with 0.4% (16 votes), among the 4,340 ballots cast by the town's 9,393 registered voters, yielding a 46.2% turnout.


Education

The
Morris School District The Morris School District is a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from three municipalities in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. The communities in the distric ...
is a regional public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through
twelfth grade Twelfth grade, 12th grade, senior year, or grade 12 is the final year of secondary school in most of North America. In other regions, it may also be referred to as class 12 or Year 13. In most countries, students are usually between the ages of 17 ...
from the communities of Morristown and Morris Township, and high school students (grades 9–12) from Morris Plains who attend the high school as part of a
sending/receiving relationship A sending/receiving relationship is one in which a public school district sends some or all of its students to attend the schools of another district. This is often done to achieve costs savings in smaller districts or continues after districts hav ...
with the Morris Plains Schools. As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprised of 10 schools, had an enrollment of 5,216 students and 441.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.8:1.District information for Morris School District
National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed April 1, 2020. Schools in the district (with 2018–19 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Lafayette Learning Center (102 students; in grade Pre-K), Alexander Hamilton School (293; 3–5), Hillcrest School (288; K–2), Thomas Jefferson School (314; 3–5), Normandy Park School (302; K–5), Sussex Avenue School (301; 3–5), Alfred Vail School (297; K–2), Woodland School (289; K–2), Frelinghuysen Middle School (1,081; 6–8) and
Morristown High School Morristown High School (MHS) is a four-year public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from three communities in Morris County, United States, operating as part of the Morris School District. The school serves students ...
(1,860; 9–12). The nine elected seats on the board of education are allocated based on the population of the constituent municipalities, with four seats assigned to Morristown. In addition to a public school system, Morristown has several private schools. Primary and elementary schools include The Red Oaks School, an independent private school founded in 1965 and serving pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, that offers both Montessori and
International Baccalaureate The International Baccalaureate (IB), formerly known as the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and founded in 1968. It offers four educational programmes: the IB D ...
programs. Assumption Roman Catholic is a grade school (K–8) that operates under the auspices of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson The Diocese of Paterson is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States that encompasses Passaic, Morris, and Sussex counties in northern New Jersey. Most of this territory lies to the west of th ...
and was one of 11 schools in the state recognized in 2014 by the
United States Department of Education The United States Department of Education is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government. It began operating on May 4, 1980, having been created after the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was split into the Departmen ...
's National Blue Ribbon Schools Program. The Peck School, a private
day school A day school — as opposed to a boarding school — is an educational institution where children and adolescents are given instructions during the day, after which the students return to their homes. A day school has full-day programs when compa ...
which serves approximately 300 students in kindergarten through grade eight, dates back to 1893 when it was originally established as Miss Sutphen's School. The
Delbarton School Delbarton School is a private all-male Catholic Church, Catholic college-preparatory school in Morristown, New Jersey for young men in seventh grade, seventh through twelfth grades. It is an independent school directed by the Benedictine monks ...
is an all-boys
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school with approximately 540 students in grades seven through twelve, that began serving resident students in 1939 after having previously served as a seminary. The Morristown-Beard School, a private co-ed school formed from the merger of two previously existing institutions, Morristown Preparatory School and Miss Beard's School, serves grades 6 through 12. In addition, Villa Walsh Academy, a private
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college preparatory school A college-preparatory school (usually shortened to preparatory school or prep school) is a type of secondary school. The term refers to public, private independent or parochial schools primarily designed to prepare students for higher educatio ...
conducted by the Religious Teachers Filippini, is located in Morristown. The
Academy of Saint Elizabeth The Academy of Saint Elizabeth is a private college preparatory secondary school for young women located in Convent Station, New Jersey, United States. Established in 1860, the academy is the oldest secondary school for women in New Jersey. T ...
was founded at Morristown in 1860 by the
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, however when municipal boundaries were redrawn in 1895, the Academy found itself in the Convent Station section of the adjacent Morris Township. The
Rabbinical College of America The Rabbinical College of America is a Chabad Lubavitch Chasidic yeshiva in Morristown, New Jersey. The Yeshiva is under the direction of Rabbi Moshe Herson. The growth of the Yeshiva college has had a significant cultural effect on the commu ...
, one of the largest
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Chasidic
yeshiva A yeshiva (; he, ישיבה, , sitting; pl. , or ) is a traditional Jewish educational institution focused on the study of Rabbinic literature, primarily the Talmud and halacha (Jewish law), while Torah and Jewish philosophy are st ...
s in the world is located in Morristown. The Rabbinical College of America has a
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yeshiva for students of diverse Jewish backgrounds, named Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim. The New Jersey Regional Headquarters for the worldwide Chabad Lubavitch movement is located on the campus.


Transportation


Roads and highways

, the town had a total of of roadways, of which were maintained by the municipality, by Morris County and by the
New Jersey Department of Transportation The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) is the agency responsible for transportation issues and policy in New Jersey, including maintaining and operating the state's highway and public road system, planning and developing transporta ...
.
Interstate 287 Interstate 287 (I-287) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway in the US states of New Jersey and New York. It is a partial beltway around New York City, serving the northern half of New Jersey and the counties of Rockland and Westchester in ...
is the main highway providing access to Morristown. Two interchanges, Exit 35 and Exit 36, are located within the town. Other significant roads serving Morristown include
U.S. Route 202 U.S. Route 202 (US 202) is a spur route of US 2. It follows a northeasterly and southwesterly direction stretching from Delaware to Maine, also traveling through the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massa ...
,
New Jersey Route 124 Route 124 is a state highway in the northern part of New Jersey in the United States that is long. It is the eastern section of what used to be Route 24 before that road was realigned to its current freeway alignment. The western end is at an i ...
and County Route 510.


Public transportation

Morristown has attempted to implement
transit-oriented development In urban planning, transit-oriented development (TOD) is a type of urban development that maximizes the amount of residential, business and leisure space within walking distance of public transport. It promotes a symbiotic relationship between ...
. Morristown was designated in 1999 as of one of New Jersey's first five "
transit village A transit village is a pedestrian-friendly mixed-use district or neighborhood oriented around the station of a high-quality transit system, such as rail or B.R.T. Often a civic square of public space abuts the train station, functioning as the hu ...
s". In 1999, Morristown changed its zoning code to designate the area around the train station as a "Transit Village Core" for mixed-use. The designation was at least partly responsible for development plans for several mixed-use condominium developments.
NJ Transit New Jersey Transit Corporation, branded as NJ Transit, and often shortened to NJT, is a state-owned public transportation system that serves the U.S. state of New Jersey, along with portions of New York State and Pennsylvania. It operates bu ...
offers rail service at the Morristown station which offers service on the
Morristown Line The Morristown Line is an NJ Transit commuter rail line connecting Morris and Essex counties to New York City, via either New York Penn Station or Hoboken Terminal. Out of 60 inbound and 58 outbound daily weekday trains, 28 inbound and 26 outbou ...
to Newark Broad Street,
Secaucus Junction Secaucus Junction (known as Secaucus Transfer during planning stages and signed simply as Secaucus) is a NJ Transit Rail Operations commuter rail hub in Secaucus, New Jersey. The $450 million, station opened on December 15, 2003, and was ded ...
,
New York Penn Station Pennsylvania Station, also known as New York Penn Station or simply Penn Station, is the main intercity railroad station in New York City and the busiest transportation facility in the Western Hemisphere, serving more than 600,000 passengers ...
and
Hoboken Terminal Hoboken Terminal is a commuter-oriented intermodal passenger station in Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey. One of the New York metropolitan area's major transportation hubs, it is served by nine NJ Transit (NJT) commuter rail lines, one Metr ...
. The town benefited from shortened commuting times to New York City due to the "
Midtown Direct The Kearny Connection is a railroad junction in Kearny, New Jersey that allows passenger trains from New Jersey Transit's Morris and Essex Lines to enter Amtrak's Northeast Corridor (NEC) and travel to and from New York Penn Station. The junc ...
" service New Jersey Transit instituted in the 1990s. NJ Transit local bus service is offered from the Morristown rail station, Morristown Medical Center and Headquarters Plaza on the
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,
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,
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,
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and
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bus routes, replacing service that had been offered on the MCM1,
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,
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and
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routes until 2010, when subsidies to the local provider were eliminated as part of budget cuts. Community Coach provides daily service between New York City and Morristown on bus route 77. The town's Department of Public Works operates "Colonial Coach", which provides free transportation within Morristown. The Whippany Line of the Morristown and Erie Railway, a small freight line, traverses the township. Established in 1895, the line runs from Morristown and runs through East Hanover Township and Hanover Township to Roseland.


Aviation

Morristown Municipal Airport Morristown Airport is in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, three miles east of downtown Morristown and 27 miles west of Manhattan, New York City. Operated by DM AIRPORTS, LTD, it is in the Whippany section of Hanover. The National Plan ...
is the closest public airport. While owned by the town, the airport is physically located in nearby Hanover Township, 3 miles east of Morristown proper. Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark /
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is the closest airport with scheduled passenger service. It is approximately 20 minutes away via Route 24 and
Interstate 78 Interstate 78 (I-78) is an east–west Interstate Highway in the Northeastern United States, running from I-81 northeast of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, through Allentown to western and northern New Jersey and terminating at the Holland T ...
.


Media

Due to its proximity to New York City and Newark, daily newspapers serving the community are ''
The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
'', ''
The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...
'', and ''
The Star-Ledger ''The Star-Ledger'' is the largest circulated newspaper in the U.S. state of New Jersey and is based in Newark. It is a sister paper to '' The Jersey Journal'' of Jersey City, ''The Times'' of Trenton and the '' Staten Island Advance'', all of ...
''. The Morristown ''Daily Record'' is published locally, as is '' New Jersey Monthly'' magazine. WMTR is an AM radio station at 1250 kHz is licensed to Morristown. The station features an
oldies Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock) from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as ...
format. WJSV radio (90.5 FM) is the nonprofit radio station of Morristown High School, which also has a television show, ''Colonial Corner''. '' Hometown Tales'', a
public-access television Public-access television is traditionally a form of non-commercial mass media where the general public can create content television programming which is narrowcast through cable television specialty channels. Public-access television was creat ...
show and podcast chronicling stories and urban legends from around the world, is loosely based in Morristown.


Statues

* One of only two heroic statues of
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in the United States is located in Morristown; the other is found in Bordentown, NJ. * One of the few statues depicting an unblindfolded
Lady Justice Lady Justice ( la, Iustitia) is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems. Her attributes are scales, a sword and sometimes a blindfold. She often appears as a pair with Prudentia. Lady Justice originates from the ...
adorns the façade of the Courthouse. *A statue of
Morris Frank Morris Frank (March 23, 1908 – November 22, 1980) was a co-founder of The Seeing Eye, the first guide-dog school in the United States. He traveled the United States and Canada to promote the use of guide dogs for people who are blind or visu ...
, the co-founder of
The Seeing Eye The Seeing Eye, Inc. is a guide dog school located in Morristown, New Jersey, in the United States. Founded in 1929, the Seeing Eye is the oldest guide dog school in the U.S., and one of the largest. The Seeing Eye campus includes administra ...
guide dog school for the blind, and his dog Buddy stands in a corner of the green. *The Alliance (2007) by Brooklyn's Studio EIS, featuring bronze figures of
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, Alexander Hamilton and the
Marquis de Lafayette Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette (, ), was a French aristocrat, freemason and military officer who fought in the American Revolutio ...
. The statue is in the Morristown Green.Buckeye 1776. "Morristown Green." Wikimapia - Let's Describe the Whole World! 6 June 2010. Web. 6 December 2010. .Buckeye 1776. "Morristown Green." Wikimapia - Let's Describe the Whole World! 6 June 2010. Web. 6 December 2010. .


Notable people

People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Morristown include: * Frank D. Abell (1878–1964), politician who served in the
New Jersey General Assembly The New Jersey General Assembly is the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature. Since the election of 1967 (1968 Session), the Assembly has consisted of 80 members. Two members are elected from each of New Jersey's 40 legislative districts f ...
in 1925 and 1926 and the New Jersey Senate from 1926 to 1931 * Kenny Agostino (born 1992), professional ice hockey player for the New Jersey Devils of the
National Hockey League The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranked professional ...
* Joseph Bushnell Ames (1878–1928), novelist *
Kristina Apgar Kristina Mevs-Apgar (formerly Kristina Apgar) was an American actress best known for her portrayal of Lily Smith on the CW's drama '' Privileged''. Career In her teen years, Kristina was a model with the Wilhelmina Models Agency. Clients incl ...
(born 1985), actress best known for her portrayal of Lily Smith on the CW's drama '' Privileged'' *
Michael Ashkin Michael Ashkin is an American artist who makes sculptures, videos, photographs and installations depicting marginalized, desolate landscapes. He is a professor at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. Ashkin was a 2009 G ...
(born 1955), artist known for sculptures, videos, photographs and installations depicting marginalized, desolate landscapes * William O. Baker (1915–2005), scientist who headed
Bell Labs Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984), then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996) and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007), is an American industrial Research and development, research and scientific developm ...
* Bonnie Lee Bakley (1956–2001), murdered wife of
Robert Blake Robert Blake may refer to: Sportspeople * Bob Blake (American football) (1885–1962), American football player * Robbie Blake (born 1976), English footballer * Bob Blake (ice hockey) (1914–2008), American ice hockey player * Rob Blake (born 196 ...
; born in Morristown *
James Berardinelli James Berardinelli (born September 25, 1967) is an American film critic and former engineer. His reviews are mainly published on his blog ''ReelViews.'' Approved as a critic by the aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, he has published two collections of r ...
(born 1967), film critic * Vincenzo Bernardo (born 1990), professional soccer player *
Faire Binney Frederica "Faire" Binney (August 24, 1900 – August 28, 1957) her name pronounced like the country ''Zaire'', was an American stage and film actress.Soister, Nicolella & Joyce p.732 Biography Born Frederica Binney in Morristown, New Jersey, sh ...
(1900–1957),
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and
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who starred in films during the silent era after making her debut in the 1918 film '' Sporting Life'' alongside her sister Constance Binney * Anna Campbell Bliss (1925–2015), visual artist and architect * Scott Blumstein (born 1992), poker player who won the
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Main Event for $8,150,000 * Warren Bobrow (born ), mixologist, chef, and writer known as the "Cocktail Whisperer" * Rinker Buck (born 1950), author best known for his 1997 memoir ''Flight of Passage'' * Tez Cadey (born 1993), French-American DJ, record producer and songwriter * Jabez Campfield (1737–1821), doctor who served as a surgeon in the Continental Army during the
American Revolutionary War The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of t ...
*
Lincoln Child Lincoln Child (13 October 1957) is an American author of techno-thriller and horror novels. Though he is most well known for his collaborations with Douglas Preston (including the Agent Pendergast series and the Gideon Crew series, among other ...
(born 1957), author of
techno-thriller A techno-thriller or technothriller is a hybrid genre drawing from science fiction, thrillers, spy fiction, action, and war novels. They include a disproportionate amount (relative to other genres) of technical details on their subject matter ( ...
and
horror novel Horror is a genre of fiction which is intended to frighten, scare, or disgust. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror, which is in the realm of speculative fiction. Literary historian J. ...
s * George T. Cobb (1813–1870), represented
New Jersey's 4th congressional district New Jersey's 4th congressional district is a congressional district that stretches along the New Jersey Shore. It has been represented by Republican Chris Smith since 1981, the second-longest currently serving member of the US House of Represe ...
from 1861 to 1863, and Mayor of Morristown from 1865 to 1869 * Lewis Condict (1772–1862), physician and member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey * Silas Condict (1738–1801), farmer, surveyor and landowner, who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress from New Jersey * Donald Cresitello, Mayor of Morristown from 2006 to 2010 * Augustus W. Cutler (1827–1897), member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey * Jean Dalrymple (1902–1998), theater producer, manager, publicist and playwright, who was instrumental in the founding of New York City Center * Joe Dante (born 1946), film director * Edith Kunhardt Davis (1937–2020), author of more than 70 children's books. * Alex DeCroce (1936–2012), politician who served in the
New Jersey General Assembly The New Jersey General Assembly is the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature. Since the election of 1967 (1968 Session), the Assembly has consisted of 80 members. Two members are elected from each of New Jersey's 40 legislative districts f ...
, where he represented the New Jersey's 26th legislative district, 26th Legislative District from 1989 until his death * Dorothy Harrison Eustis (1886–1946), dog breeder, philanthropist, founder of
The Seeing Eye The Seeing Eye, Inc. is a guide dog school located in Morristown, New Jersey, in the United States. Founded in 1929, the Seeing Eye is the oldest guide dog school in the U.S., and one of the largest. The Seeing Eye campus includes administra ...
guide dog school * Caroline C. Fillmore (1813–1881), wife of President of the United States, President Millard Fillmore; born in Morristown * Nic Fink (born 1993), Olympic Games, Olympic swimming (sport), swimmer who specializes in breaststroke events * Chris Fletcher (born 1948), former safety, played in the NFL for the San Diego Chargers, 1970–1976 * Steve Forbes (born 1947), editor-in-chief of ''Forbes'' and two-time Republican candidate for President of the United States * Caroline Rose Foster (1877–1979), farmer and founder of Fosterfields, a working historical farm * Adam Gardner (born 1973), singer, songwriter, and guitarist of the band Guster; grew up in Morristown * Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr. (1910–2011), former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York * Justin Gimelstob (born 1977), professional tennis player * Anna Harrison (1775–1864), First Lady of the United States, wife of President William Henry Harrison and grandmother of President Benjamin Harrison * Tobin Heath (born 1988), United States national soccer team player and member of the female professional team Portland Thorns FC * Markus Howard (born 1999), player for the Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball team * Linda Hunt (born 1945), Academy Award-winning actress * Julia Hurlbut (1882–1962), suffragist who served as the vice chairman of the New Jersey branch of the National Woman's Party * I. Stanford Jolley (1900–1978), film and television actor who starred in the 1946 Serial film, serial film ''The Crimson Ghost'' * Otto Hermann Kahn (1867–1934), German-born banker, investor, philanthropist and Rutgers University trustee maintained a home in Morristown * Roger Wolfe Kahn (1907–1962), bandleader, composer, nightclub owner, aviator; Otto Kahn's son; born in Morristown * Nolan Kasper (born 1989), FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer who competes in the technical events and specializes in the Slalom skiing, slalom * Ann Klein (1923–1986), politician who served in the
New Jersey General Assembly The New Jersey General Assembly is the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature. Since the election of 1967 (1968 Session), the Assembly has consisted of 80 members. Two members are elected from each of New Jersey's 40 legislative districts f ...
and was the first woman to run for
Governor of New Jersey The governor of New Jersey is the head of government of New Jersey. The office of governor is an elected position with a four-year term. There is a two consecutive term term limit, with no limitation on non-consecutive terms. The official r ...
* Anthony W. Knapp (born 1941), mathematician at the Stony Brook University working on representation theory who classified the tempered representations of a semisimple Lie group * Ted Koffman (born 1944), politician who served in the Maine House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 * Luther Kountze (1841–1918), banker who built an estate in Morristown in the late 1880s * Diane Kress (born 1959), author * Dorothy Kunhardt (1901–1979), children's-book author, best known for the baby book ''Pat the Bunny.'' * Connor Lade (born 1989), soccer player for New York Red Bulls * Antoine le Blanc (–1833), murderer * Fran Lebowitz (born 1950), author, columnist and actor * David Hunter McAlpin (1816–1901), prominent industrialist and real estate owner in New York City * Dave Moore (American football player), Dave Moore (born 1969), former NFL tight end * Troy Murphy (born 1980), professional basketball player * Walter Naegle (born 1949), artist, photography and civil rights activist born in Morristown. Partner of Bayard Rustin. * Thomas Nast (1840–1902), caricaturist and editorial cartoonist; lived in Morristown for more than 20 years * Craig Newmark (born 1952), founder of Craigslist; born in Morristown and attended Morristown High School * Neil O'Donnell (born 1966), former NFL quarterback, most notably for the Pittsburgh Steelers * John Panelli (1926–2012), American football, football player who played in the NFL for the Detroit Lions and the Chicago Cardinals * Sister Parish (1910–1994), interior decorator and socialite, most notably as the first interior designer brought in to decorate the John F. Kennedy, Kennedy White House * Doug Payne (born 1981, class of 2000), American equestrian who was selected to compete for the United States in the delayed 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo * Mahlon Pitney (1858–1924), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court * Johanna Poethig (born 1956), Bay Area visual, public and performance artistHerbert, Susan. "Muralist Johanna Poethig," ''San Francisco Independent'', January 19, 1989, p. 13. * Debra Ponzek, chef, owner of Aux Délices restaurants in Connecticut * Rick Porcello (born 1988), starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox * Andrew Prendeville (born 1981), professional automobile racer * Sarah Price (author), Sarah Price (born 1969), author * Dan Quinn (American football), Dan Quinn (born 1970), American football, football defensive coordinator for the Super Bowl XLVIII champion Seattle Seahawks, former head coach of the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI and current defensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys * Robert Randolph (guitarist), Robert Randolph, guitarist, of Robert Randolph & the Family Band * Rocky Rees (born 1949), head football coach at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, 1990–2010 * Garrett Reisman (born 1968), NASA astronaut, first American to be on board the International Space Station * Rick Rescorla (1939–2001), head of Morgan Stanley World Trade Center (1973-2001), World Trade Center security during the September 11 terrorist attacks * Jordan Riak (1935–2016), activist against corporal punishment * William P. Richardson (law school dean), William P. Richardson (1864–1945), co-founder and first Dean of Brooklyn Law School * Suzanne Scott (born 1965/66), CEO of Fox News * Tony Scott (musician), Tony Scott (1921–2007), bebop clarinetist, arranger, New World music innovator * Gene Shalit (born 1932), film critic on NBC's ''Today (NBC program), The Today Show'' * Alexander Slobodyanik (1941–2008), classical pianist * Leila Clement Spaulding (1878–1973), classicist and archaeologist * Lexington Steele (born 1969), pornographic actor, director and owner of Mercenary Motion Pictures and Black Viking Pictures * John Cleves Symmes (1742–1814), delegate to the Continental Congress; pioneer responsible for the Symmes Purchase; father-in-law of President of the United States, President William Henry Harrison * Kathryn Tappen (born 1981), sportscaster who works on NBC Sports Group's coverage of hockey and football * Jahmar Thorpe (born 1984), professional basketball player for the Iwate Big Bulls in Japan * Jyles Tucker (born 1983), linebacker for the San Diego Chargers * Bayard Tuckerman Jr. (1889–1974), jockey, businessman and politician *
Alfred Vail Alfred Lewis Vail (September 25, 1807 – January 18, 1859) was an American machinist and inventor. Along with Samuel Morse, Vail was central in developing and commercializing American telegraphy between 1837 and 1844. Vail and Morse were the f ...
(1807–1859), inventor of Morse code * Frederick T. van Beuren Jr. (1876–1943), physician and surgeon who was president of Morristown Medical Center, Morristown Memorial Hospital from 1933 until his death. * Tom Verlaine (born 1949), songwriter, guitarist, and lead singer for the New York rock band Television (band), Television * Daniel Spader Voorhees (1852–1935), New Jersey Department of the Treasury, New Jersey State Treasurer, 1907–1913 * John Beam Vreeland (1852–1923), attorney and politician who served in the New Jersey Senate and as the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, United States Attorney for the district of New Jersey. * Silas A. Wade (1797–1869), politician who served in the Michigan House of Representatives * Joshua Weinstein (director), Joshua Weinstein (born 1983), independent filmmaker who directed the A24 film ''Menashe (film), Menashe'' (2017), and the feature documentaries ''Drivers Wanted (2012 film), Driver's Wanted'' (2012) and ''Flying on One Engine'' (2008) * George Theodore Werts (1846–1910), List of Governors of New Jersey, 28th
Governor of New Jersey The governor of New Jersey is the head of government of New Jersey. The office of governor is an elected position with a four-year term. There is a two consecutive term term limit, with no limitation on non-consecutive terms. The official r ...
, 1893–1896; Mayor of Morristown 1886–1892 * Nancy Zeltsman (born 1958), jazz vibraphonistBiography
, Nancy Zeltsman. Accessed November 23, 2008. * Dimitri Minakakis (born 1977), former singer for mathcore band The Dillinger Escape Plan


References


External links


Official website

"Where the People Live"

The Morristown & Morris Township Public Library
* {{Authority control Morristown, New Jersey, 1865 establishments in New Jersey County seats in New Jersey Faulkner Act (mayor–council) Populated places established in 1865 Towns in Morris County, New Jersey