unincorporated community
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New Jersey
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, United States.
Geography
The area is served as
United States Postal Service
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ZIP code 07946. Other communities in Long Hill Township include
Gillette
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Based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, it was owned by The Gil ...
,
Stirling
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, and the hamlet of Meyersville.
It borders the southern side of the
Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is located in Morris County, New Jersey. Established in 1960, it now is among what has grown to be more than 550 refuges in the United States National Wildlife Refuge System.
The initial portion of the ...
with access to
Lord Stirling Park
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. The
Passaic River
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forms its western and southern border. The Raptor Trust, a famous bird rehabilitation and education center within the Great Swamp is also inside the town limits.
History
Clover Hill Swimming Club The Clover Hill Swimming Club, in the Millington section of Long Hill Township in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, was a swim club operating in the 1960s in the suburban New York City metropolitan region.
Incorporated on October 6 ...
was located there. It lost a 1966 civil rights case. In 2013, the lake is not sanitary for swimming. The only activity that takes place at this lake now, 2013, is fishing.
Demographics
As of the
2010 United States Census
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, the population for
ZIP Code Tabulation Area
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United States Census Bureau
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. Accessed May 19, 2016.
Education
Students in public school attend the
Long Hill Township School System
The Long Hill Township School System is a community state school, public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in Long Hill Township, New Jersey, Long Hill Township in Morris County, New Jersey, Morris Cou ...
for grades K-8 and attend
Watchung Hills Regional High School
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in Somerset County for grades 9-12. Millington School is the only active school still located in the town. It houses grades 2-5 and had an enrollment of 505 students as of the 2005-06 school year.
The Town Hall used to be used as the old school house of the town, originally built in the 19th century.
Infrastructure
Rail
The town has a train stop on the
Gladstone Branch
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of the
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 ...
rail line,
Millington Station
Millington is a NJ Transit station in the Millington, New Jersey, Millington section of Long Hill Township, New Jersey, Long Hill Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, located at the intersection of Oaks Road and Division Avenue. ...
. Millington Station was built in 1901, after the West Line Railroad was extended from
Summit
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The term (mountain top) is generally used ...
to
Bernardsville
Bernardsville () is a borough in Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The borough is nestled in the heart of the Raritan Valley region. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 7,707,
during the years 1870–71. Millington Station was entered into the
National Register of Historic Places
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Garden State Fireworks Garden State Fireworks is a pyrotechnics company based in the Millington section of Long Hill Township, Morris County, New Jersey, United States. It was founded in 1890 and has been owned by the same family for four generations. It is one of the ...
, founded in 1890, is located there.
Millington Savings Bank started as ''Millington Building and Loan'' in 1911 in the town and has grown to other branches in the area.
Notable people
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Millington include:
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Jack H. Jacobs
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(born 1945),
Medal of Honor
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recipient in 1969 for his heroic actions during the
Vietnam War
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.
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Robert Tappan Morris
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Morris was prosecuted for releasing the ...
(born 1965), computer scientist and entrepreneur best known for creating the Morris Worm in 1988, considered the first
computer worm
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on the
Internet
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.
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Bill Murray
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,
defensive tackle
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for the
New England Patriots
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William & Mary Tribe football
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. Accessed May 19, 2021. "Hometown: Millington, N.J.; High School" Delbarton School"
Gallery
File:Millington New Jersey 1908.jpg, Long Hill Road in Millington, New Jersey, 1908.
File:Tractor rusting at farm.jpg, Hillview Farms has new tractors, but when old tractors become obsolete, they are kept as historical pieces.