Morris County is a

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located in the

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, about west of

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. According to the 2020 census, the county was the state's tenth-most populous county,Table1. New Jersey Counties and Most Populous Cities and Townships: 2020 and 2010 Censuses

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. Accessed December 1, 2022. with a population of 509,285, its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 17,009 (+3.5%) from the 2010 census count of 492,276, which in turn reflected an increase of 22,064 (+11.6%) from the 470,212 counted in the 2000 census, Morris County is part of the

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and is divided into 39 municipalities, with many

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s but no large cities. Its

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is Morristown, in the southeast.New Jersey County Map

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. Accessed December 29, 2022. The most populous place was Parsippany-Troy Hills Township, with 56,162 residents at the time of the 2020 census, while Rockaway Township covered , the largest total area of any municipality.''New Jersey: 2010 – Population and Housing Unit Counts; 2010 Census of Population and Housing''
p. 6, CPH-2-32.

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, August 2012. Accessed August 29, 2016. The county is part of the

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region of the state. In 2015, the county had a per capita personal income of $86,582, the highest in New Jersey and ranked 24th of 3,113 counties in the United States. Morris County, as of the 2000 Census, was the sixth-wealthiest county in the United States by

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at $77,340 (second in New Jersey behind Hunterdon County at $79,888), sixth in median family income at $89,773 (third in New Jersey behind Hunterdon County at $91,050 and Somerset County at $90,605) and ranked tenth by per capita income at $36,964 (second in New Jersey behind Somerset County at $37,970). The

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ranked the county as having the 16th-highest

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of all 3,113 counties in the United States (and the second highest in New Jersey) as of 2009. The county ranked third in the New York metropolitan area in terms of median income. In 2017, Morris County was ranked second among the state's 21 counties in healthiness, according to an annual report by County Health Rankings and Roadmaps.

History

Etymology

Morris County was named after Colonel

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, governor of New Jersey in 1738–39, the year the county was named.

Paleo-Indians and Native Americans

The Wisconsin Glacier covered the northern section of Morris County from about 23,000 BC to 13,000 BC. After the Wisconsin Glacier melted around 13,000 BC,

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settled the area from the south in search of big and small game as well as plants. The area was first tundra with grasses growing. Rabbits and fox moved into the area from the south. Around the year 1000, the area of Morris County was inhabited by the

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Native Americans prior to the arrival of European settlers. They came from the Mississippi River area. They lived along the rivers, hunted game, and fished in addition to collecting plants and nuts.

Dutch and English colonization

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explored the

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area in 1609, and later the Dutch did surveys of the area. From 1611 to 1614, the Dutch established the colony of

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, which claimed territory between the 40th and

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, a zone which included northern New Jersey. Dutch forts were established along the Hudson River beginning in 1613. As the years went by, more forts were established to trade with Native Americans. The Native Americans traded furs and food with the Dutch for various goods. In return the Dutch gave the Native Americans metal pots, knives, guns, axes, and blankets. Trading with the Native Americans occurred until 1643 when a series of wars broke out between the Dutch and Native Americans. There were hostile relations between the Dutch and Native Americans between 1643 and 1660. This prevented colonization by the Dutch of the Morris County region which was technically included in their claimed "New Netherland". On August 27, 1664, three English ships approached Fort Amsterdam and the fort was surrendered to the English. The English now controlled New Netherland and Morris County was now under control of the colony of New York. Relations with the Native Americans improved for a while. There was a war with the Dutch ten years later. The Dutch re-took control of New Amsterdam but after a year returned it to the English. Relations with the Native Americans and English improved for a while. European settlements began in the early 18th century while the area was known as Hunterdon County. Native Americans were still in the area at that time. Land was purchased from the Native Americans for various things such as blankets, shirts, rum, guns, knives, pots and gunpowder. European colonization began along the Atlantic coast moving inland. The first European settlement in the area today known as Morris County occurred in Pompton Plains by the Dutch in 1695.Morris County profile
Choose: New Jersey. Accessed October 6, 2013. From 1710 to 1730, various iron mines and forges were established. The first was in Whippany in 1710 and then in Succasunna in 1713. By 1750, nearly all Native Americans had left New Jersey. This was due to land purchases from the Native Americans, diseases that the Native Americans contracted from Europeans, and due to starvation from the

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, during which Native American corn crops failed and rivers froze, preventing fishing. Snow storms sent game into semi-hibernation or made them difficult to find. Nut crops such as oak, hickory, beech, walnut, chestnut and butternut failed some years due to late frosts in spring. Many of the Morris County Native Americans went to eastern Canada and others went to the Ohio Valley. The Walking Purchase in September 1737, prevented Native Americans from going to eastern Pennsylvania. At that time, European settlement grew swiftly as there was now land to be farmed and settled. Morris County was originally part of Burlington County which had been established in 1694. It then became part of Hunterdon County, which separated from Burlington County in 1714. Morris County was created on , from portions of Hunterdon County.Snyder, John P
''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606–1968''
Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 191. Accessed January 21, 2013. The county was named for the Governor of the

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, Colonel

. In later years Sussex County (on June 8, 1753) and, after the revolution, Warren County (on November 20, 1824, from portions of Sussex County) were carved out of what had been the original area of Morris County under English rule. The county was the site of the winter camp of the

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after the Battles of Trenton and Princeton during the winter of 1777, as well as another winter camp at Jockey Hollow during an extremely cold winter of 1779–80. In the 1880s, Dover was the center of

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mining with the 132 mines producing 700,000 tons of ore annually. The mines were mostly worked by Cornish miners, with the bulk of the population in Dover and Port Oram of Cornish extraction. At that time the Cornish had kept their customs and dialect, were deeply religious and predominantly

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Geography and geology

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of the 2020 Census, the county had a total area of , of which was land (95.7%) and was water (4.3%).2020 Census Gazetteer File for Counties in New Jersey

. Accessed April 1, 2023. The county rises in elevation and relief from east to west, with only the more developed eastern suburbs in the

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valley being relatively level. The highest point is at above sea level on a mountain south of Pine Swamp in western Jefferson Township. The second-highest point is on a mountain just north of Riker Lake at . The lowest point is about in elevation, at Two Bridges, the

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of the Passaic and Pompton rivers. The county is drained by several rivers. The

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drains , of the northern section of the county. The Whippany River drains of the middle of the county. The South Branch of the Raritan River and the Black River drain the western area. Most of the county's borders are rivers. The Pequannock River drains the northern boundary area. The Pompton River drains the eastern section. The

also drains the eastern border area. The western border is drained by the

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. There are several large lakes in Morris County; among them are the state's largest lake,

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, Budd Lake, Lake Parsippany, and the Boonton Reservoir, also known as the Jersey City Reservoir.

Climate

Morris has a

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(''Dfa''/''Dfb'') and the

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s are 6a and 6b.

Weather

In recent years, average temperatures in the county seat of Morristown have ranged from a low of in January to a high of in July, although a record low of was recorded in February 1934 and a record high of was recorded in August 2001. Average monthly precipitation ranged from in February to in September.

Geology

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Around 500 million years ago, a chain of volcanic islands shaped like an arc collided with proto-North America. The islands rode over top of the North American plate. This created the highlands in western Morris County and the eastern section of Morris County.USGS Around 400 million years ago, a small continent long and narrow collided with proto-North America. This created folding and faulting, as compression occurred. Then around 350 million years ago, the African Plate collided with North America creating the folding and faulting in the Appalachians. But when the African plate pulled away from North America, an aborted rift valley was created. This half

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, starts east of Boonton and goes through the middle of Parsippany, south to Morristown, to the south end of Great Swamp. From Parsippany and the Boonton area the half graben goes east to the western side of Paterson, where there was another fault by the lava flows. East of the Ramapo Fault is where there is this aborted rift valley. The Ramapo fault goes through the county on a northeast–southwest axis. The fault separates the Highlands from the Piedmont, also known as the Newark Basin. This is an

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. The last major earthquake occurred in 1884, with a strength measured at 5.3 on the Richter scale. Around 21,000 BCE., the Wisconsin Glacier covered about half of Morris County. The terminal moraine went from Hackettstown east to north of Budd Lake, east to Rockaway and Denville, then southeast to Morristown then south to the south end of Great Swamp. When the glacier melted around 13,000 B.C. the melt water created Glacial Lake Passaic. The lake extended from what is now Pompton Lakes through Parsippany south to the south end of Great Swamp. From Parsippany the lake went east to the lava flows of western Paterson. This lake was long and miles wide and the depth was about . When the Wisconsin glacier covered Morris County, the ice sheet was about deep. Due to debris from the glacier, the lake was unable to drain through the Watchung Mountains near Short Hills. Instead, it drained through Moggy Hollow at the southwestern end of the lake. But when the glacier melted and receded to the New York State line, the lake drained though the Little Falls area, as this was lower in elevation than Moggy Hollow. And thus the Passaic River formed. The swamps of the Great Piece Meadows, Hatfield Swamp, Troy Meadows, Lee Meadows and Great Swamp were all under the Lake Passaic until it drained, and then these areas were created.

Demographics

2020 census

As of the 2020 census, the county had 509,285 people, 184,885 households, and 129,707 families. The

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was . There were 197,722 housing units at an average density of . The county's racial makeup was 67.0%

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, 3.06%

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, 0.07% Native American, 11.3% Asian, and 3.0% from two or more races.

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or Latino residents of any race accounted for 15.05% of the population. Of the 184,885 households, of which 38.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.3% were

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living together, 22.7% had a female householder with no husband present, 13.5% had a male householder with no wife present and 29.8% were non-families. 28.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 3.17. About 21.4% of the county's population was under age 18, 8.5% was from age 18 to 24, 35.9% was from age 15 to 44, and 17.5% was age 65 or older. The median age was 43.3 years. The gender makeup of the county was 49.2% male and 50.8% female. For every 100 females, there were 96.9 males. The county's median household income was $116,283, and the median family income was $141,633. About 5.5% of the population were below the

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, including 5.1% of those under age 18 and 5.6% of those age 65 or over.

2010 census

The 2010 United States census counted 492,276 people, 180,534 households, and 129,262 families in the county. The

was 1,069.8 per square mile (413.1/km²). There were 189,842 housing units at an average density of 412.5 per square mile (159.3/km²). The racial makeup was 82.61% (406,683)

, 3.12% (15,360) Black or African American, 0.16% (805) Native American, 8.95% (44,069) Asian, 0.02% (106)

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, 3.03% (14,910) from other races, and 2.10% (10,343) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino residents of any race were 11.47% (56,482) of the population. Of the 180,534 households, 33.9% had children under the age of 18; 59.6% were married couples living together; 8.5% had a female householder with no husband present and 28.4% were non-families. Of all households, 23.5% were made up of individuals and 9.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.68 and the average family size was 3.19. 23.9% of the population were under the age of 18, 7.1% from 18 to 24, 25.2% from 25 to 44, 30% from 45 to 64, and 13.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41.3 years. For every 100 females, the population had 95.9 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 93.2 males.

Government

County government

Morris County is governed by a Board of County Commissioners comprised of seven members who are elected

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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 Deena Leary. , Morris County's Commissioners (with all terms ending December 31) are Director Tayfun Selen ( R, Chatham Township, 2026), Deputy Director Stephen H. Shaw (R,

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, 2027), Douglas Cabana (R, Boonton Township, 2025), John Krickus (R, Washington Township, 2027), Thomas J. Mastrangelo (R, Montville, 2025), Christine Myers (R, Harding Township, 2025) and Deborah Smith (R, Denville Township, 2027).''Morris County Manual 2024''
Morris County Clerk. Accessed January 19, 2025.''National, State & County Elected Officials Terms & Schedule Of Elections''
Morris County Clerk. Accessed January 31, 2023.Summary Results Report 2024 General Election November 5, 2024 Official Results
Morris County, New Jersey Clerk, updated November 18, 2024. Accessed January 1, 2025.General Election November 7, 2023 Official Results
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Morris County, New Jersey, updated November 28, 2022. Accessed January 1, 2023. In 2016, freeholders were paid $24,375 and the freeholder director was paid an annual salary of $25,350.

Former commissioners

No Democrat has been elected to county-wide office since 1973; the longest Democratic drought in any New Jersey county. Former county commissioners include: * 2018–2020: Heather Darling ( R) * 2013–2019: John Cesaro (R) * 2012–2018: Hank Lyon (R) * 2013–2015: David Scapicchio (R) * 2007–2012: Eugene Feyl (R) * 1999–2012: Margaret Nordstrom (R) * 2006–2012: William Chegwidden (R) * 1998–2012: John Murphy (R) * 1999–2010: Jack Schrier (R) * 2007–2010: James Murray (R) * 2001–2007: John Inglesino (R) * 1992–2006: Cecilia Laureys (R) * 1984, 1992–2006: Frank Dreutzler (R) * 1995–1997:

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(R) * 1975–1978: Douglas Romaine ( D) Pursuant to Article VII Section II of the New Jersey State Constitution, each county in New Jersey is required to have three elected administrative officials known as constitutional officers. These officers are the

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and County Surrogate (both elected for five-year terms of office) and the County Sheriff (elected for a three-year term). , they are County Clerk Ann F. Grossi (R, Parsippany–Troy Hills, 2028), Sheriff James M. Gannon (R, Boonton Township, 2025) and Surrogate Heather Darling (R, Roxbury, 2029). The County Prosecutor is Robert J. Carroll, who was sworn into the position in October 2020 following the retirement of Frederic M. Knapp. Morris County is a part of Vicinage 10 of the

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(along with Sussex County), which is seated at the Morris County Courthouse in Morristown; the Assignment Judge for Vicinage 10 is Stuart A. Minkowitz. Law enforcement at the county level is the Morris County Sheriff's Office. The Morris County Park Police was disbanded and merged into the Sheriff's Office on January 1, 2022. The County law enforcement organization includes the Morris County Prosecutor's Office.

Federal representatives

The 7th and 11th

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cover the county.

State representatives

The 39 municipalities of Morris County are represented by four legislative districts.

Other

The Morris Automated Information Network, which supplies Internet service to area libraries, turned down $10,000 per year in federal funding, starting in 2004. Acceptance of the grants would have required the network to install anti-porn content filters to comply with the

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. As these filters excluded legitimate information—such as pages with the word "breast" in online searches regarding "breast cancer"—the network declined to accept these grants. Another organization having the power to affect the county budget without county governmental control is the Morris County Board of Taxation, (also called the Morris County Tax Board). " e freeholders, and county government in general, do not have control over tax board spending. ... e tax board is an entity of state government, even though it submits expense vouchers to county government."

Politics

Though New Jersey is mainly a Democratic state, Morris County has generally leaned towards the Republican Party. The GOP has carried the county in all but three presidential elections starting in 1896: in

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, and

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. Republicans hold every countywide elected office and all of the county's seats in the state legislature. The last Democrat to win a county office was Commissioner Douglas Romaine in 1973.

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in 2020 became the first Democrat to win the county in a Senate election since

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. In

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, Donald Trump flipped the county back to Republican, and Republican Curtis Bashaw carried the county against

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in the simultaneous Senate election. As of October 1, 2021, there were a total of 397,571 registered voters in Morris County, of whom 136,127 (34.2%) were registered as Republicans, 117,323 (29.5%) were registered as Democrats and 140,145 (35.3%) were registered as unaffiliated. There were 3,976 voters (1.0%) registered to other parties.

Municipalities

The 39 municipalities in Morris County (with 2010 Census data for population, housing units and area) are:

Secession from Essex County

The municipalities of

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Essex County have discussed secession from the county, to create a new county or be annexed to Morris County, spurred mainly by a belief that tax policy benefits the poorer, urban, eastern portions of the county at the expense of the wealthier, more suburban municipalities in the western part of Essex County." Dating back to the 1960s, then- Livingston Mayor William Clark had urged the township to secede from Essex County to join neighboring Morris. Additionally, from 2001 to 2003, Millburn, Montclair and Roseland all held nonbinding ballot referendums on the issue. Then- Montclair mayor Robert J. Russo gave a statement in 2003 about secession, "I've watched Essex County burden our people, with very little to show for it. We're fiscally conservative here and socially progressive – and we're finally rebelling."

Economy

Morris County has the third-highest

in the United States ($77,340). The

calculated that the county's

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was $51.2 billion in 2021, which was ranked third in the state and was a 5.0% increase from the prior year.

Taxation

Based on

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data for the 2004 tax year, Morris County had the tenth-highest average federal income tax liability per return in the country. Average tax liability was $15,296, representing 16.3% of

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. Mountain Lakes ranked among the highest annual

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bills in New Jersey, and highest in Morris County, in 2018 of $20,471, compared to a statewide average of $8,767.

Business

Morris County is home to 33

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businesses that have headquarters, offices or a major facility in Morris County. These include

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, and

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, among others. Major industries include finance, insurance, real estate, pharmaceuticals, health services, research and development, and technology. There are set aside for 28 county parks. Four county golf courses and 16 public and private courses are in Morris. Major employers in the county include:

Housing expense

In 2018, the median house price in Morris County was $469,900, the second highest in the state behind

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'' magazine 2012 ranking of the ''Most Expensive ZIP Codes in the United States'', New Vernon (located within Harding Township) was ranked as the 32nd most expensive in the country, with a median home sale price of $2,701,885. There were a total of 6 Morris county zip codes listed in the top 500, which were

(No. 288; $909,474), Mendham (includes both Mendham Borough and Mendham Township) (No. 356; $800,672), Chatham (includes both Chatham Borough and Chatham Township) (No. 375; $776,703), Florham Park (No. 440; $675,107), and Kinnelon (No. 462; $630,414). In the magazine's 2006 listing, New Vernon ( Harding Township) was ranked as the 23rd most expensive in the country, with its median home sale price in 2005 of $1,596,587 ranking as the state's 2nd highest behind Alpine located in

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(No. 217; $826,250), Green Village (located within portions of both Harding Township and Chatham Township) (No. 282; $777,465), and

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(includes both Chester Borough and Chester Township) (No. 288; $775,000).

Education

As of 2018, 56.1 percent of Morris County residents were college graduates, the 2nd highest percentage in the state behind neighboring Somerset County with 58.0 percent. * The County College of Morris is a two-year public

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serving students from Morris County, with its main campus in Randolph and was founded in 1965. * The Assumption College for Sisters is another two-year college, the private

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women's college Women's colleges in higher education are undergraduate, bachelor's degree-granting institutions, often liberal arts colleges, whose student populations are composed exclusively or almost exclusively of women. Some women's colleges admit male st ...

located in Mendham. The Florham Park– Madison– Convent Station ( Morris Township) area is home to three universities: * The Florham Campus of

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(FDU) is located on the border of these three municipalities. It is New Jersey's largest private institution of higher education. *

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is a small, private

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in Madison. Drew has been nicknamed the "University in the Forest" because of its wooded campus. * Saint Elizabeth University (SEU) (formerly College of Saint Elizabeth) is a private

, four-year, liberal arts college located in Convent Station that has been coeducational starting in September 2016, after being women-only since it opened in 1899.

Arts and culture

* Mayo Performing Arts Center is a former Walter Reade movie theater originally constructed in 1937 that has been converted into a 1,302-seat performing arts center. * Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey is one of 25 professional theatres in the state. Serving 100,000 adults and children annually, it is New Jersey's only professional theatre company dedicated to Shakespeare's canon and other classic masterworks. The F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre, the company's main stage, is a short walk from Madison's downtown shopping district. * Pax Amicus Castle Theatre is a community theater founded in 1970 that produces a full year-round season of Broadway and

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revivals, professional productions of works by

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and

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, a program devoted to children's theater, and special events throughout the year. The architecture of the theater is designed to look like a medieval castle. * Acorn Hall is a 1853 Victorian Italianate mansion and home to the Morris County Historical Society. Donated to the historical society in 1971 by actress and political activist 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 is the second-largest museum in

at and has actively been running since 1913 and was 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. * Museum of Early Trades and Crafts was founded in 1969 in the former site of the Madison Public Library to house a collection of over 8,000 tools and artifacts used in New Jersey before 1860 that had been collected by Agnes and Edgar Land.Zimmer, William
" Remaking a Treasure Chest of Tools and Trades"
''

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'', September 1, 1996. Accessed September 24, 2007. * Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms is an early 20th Century farm/farm-school designed in the Craftsman architectural style built by Gustav Stickley, an American furniture manufacturer, design leader, publisher of The Craftsman, and a leading voice in the American

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. Craftsman Farms currently operates as a historic house museum showcasing Stickley’s original designs and furnishings. * Whippany Railway Museum is a railway museum established in 1965 that is dedicated to preserving the heritage and history of the railroads of New Jersey through the restoration, preservation, interpretation and operation of historic railroad equipment and artifacts from New Jersey and the immediate vicinity. * Morristown Green is a historic 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, and is surrounded by historic churches, the colonial county-courthouse, and a shopping and restaurant district. * Morristown National Historical Park — Four historic sites around Morristown associated with the American Revolutionary War, including Jockey Hollow, a park that includes a visitor center, the Revolution-era Wick farm, encampment site of

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'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. ** Jockey Hollow, a few miles south of

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along Route 202 in Harding Township, was the site of a

encampment. It was from here that the entire

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contingent mutinied and later, 200 New Jersey soldiers attempted to emulate them. ** Fort Nonsense occupied a high hilltop overlooking Morristown, and is believed to have been the site of a signal fire or

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, along with earthworks. It was originally built at the order of General

in 1777 for use during the

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that began in 1775 and was ended in 1783 by the Treaty of Paris. ** Ford Mansion in Morristown was the site of the "hard winter" (December 1779 – May 1780) quarters of

and the

. That winter remains the coldest on record for New Jersey. Theodosia Ford, widow of Jacob Ford Jr., and her four children shared their household with Washington, his staff, including

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, their servants and sometimes their family members.

Martha Washington Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (June 2, 1731 Old Style, O.S. – May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, who was the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, she served as the ...

traveled from

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to Morristown to spend the winter with her husband. ** Washington's Headquarters Museum, the adjacent museum is open to the public Wednesday thru Sunday from September–June and seven days a week from July- August from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM. The museum has three exhibit rooms and a sales area. A video production, ''Morristown: Where America Survived'' ( New Jersey Network, 2009) is shown. The Ford Mansion is shown only by guided tour, which begins in the museum. ** New Jersey Brigade Encampment Site is located south of Jockey Hollow in Bernardsville in Somerset County and extending into Harding Township; it was the encampment for approximately 1,300

soldiers over the 1779-1780 winter. * St. Peter's Episcopal Church is a large McKim Mead and White church with a bell tower, fine stained glass and medieval furnishings. The congregation has roots going back to the 1760s and was officially founded in 1827, with the current building consecrated in 1911 featuring gothic-revival architecture, medieval interior and fine stained glass. St. Peter's congregation has traditionally worshipped in the

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tradition. * Speedwell Ironworks is a

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and museum at the site where the

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was first presented to the public, on January 11, 1838. Speedwell Ironworks also provided most of the machinery for the SS Savannah, the first steamship to cross the

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Sports

The United States Equestrian Team, 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 Mennen Arena in Morris Township, facilitated by The Morris County Park Commission, hosts various sporting events from ice hockey, figure skating, indoor football and outdoor rugby, to professional wrestling,

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and Shrine Circus.

Points of interest

Parks and recreation

The county's parks are under the administration of the Morris County Park Commission; established in 1956, it is the largest county park system in New Jersey with more than of land under its management for recreational, leisure, and educational use.About
Morris County Park Commission. Accessed May 13, 2023. "The largest county park system in New Jersey based on acreage. Steward to over 20,394 acres of parkland... Established in 1956 by voter referendum by authority of NJSA 40:37-95.1 et. Seq. Lewis Morris County Park in Morris Township was the first park dedicated in March 1958 with 350 acres" As of May 2022, it operates 38 facilities including outdoor parks, trails, a

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, an

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arena, a horse stable, a historical farm and an operating mill. In March 1958, the Lewis Morris County Park in Morris Township became the first park dedicated by the MCPC, covering . As of 2021, it has expanded to with of trails. The park was named for

, the first Colonial Governor of New Jersey. The second park acquisition was a donation in 1956 of of land in Randolph now known as James Andrews Memorial Park, which has since been expanded to cover more than . Notably, Morristown National Historical Park became the country's first National Historical Park in 1933.

National protected areas

* Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (part) * Morristown National Historical Park * Troy Meadows

Other points of interest

* Morris County Golf Club, founded in 1894, was unique at the time in that it was established and operated by women. Two of the club's presidents have served as

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presidents, which the club joined in 1895. The current course was designed in 1916 by architect Seth Raynor. The current clubhouse was built in 1919. * Lake Hopatcong Yacht Club, established in 1905, the

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is located on the small

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of Bertrand Island along

. The Adirondack style clubhouse structure was listed on both the National and New Jersey registers of historic places in 1999. * Rockaway Townsquare located in Rockaway Township is a super-regional mall anchored by

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, and Raymour & Flanigan with a

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of , placing it in the top ten among the largest shopping malls in New Jersey.

Transportation

Roads and highways

, the county had a total of of roadways, of which are maintained by the local municipality, by Morris County and by the

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. Morris County is served by several major roadways including: *

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* Interstate 280 *

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* U.S. Route 46 *

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* U.S. Route 206 * Route 10 * Route 15 * Route 23 * Route 24 * Route 53 * Route 124 * Route 181 (Only in Jefferson Township) * Route 183

Public transportation

NJ Transit also provides rail service with Morris County via its Morris & Essex Lines and Montclair-Boonton Line to Hoboken Terminal and to

via its Midtown Direct service. Rail stations are located in the county providing electrified train service seven days a week from: Chatham, Madison, Convent Station, Morristown, Morris Plains, Denville, and

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on NJ Transit's Morris & Essex Lines; electrified train service seven days a week from

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, Millington and

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on the Gladstone Branch; and diesel train service (weekdays only) from Mount Arlington,

, Netcong, Mount Olive,

, Boonton, Towaco (Montville) and

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. Bus transportation is also offered by several carriers including Lakeland Bus Lines and NJ Transit.

Air

Morristown Municipal Airport is a

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reliever airport located east of downtown Morristown. Operated by DM Airports, Ltd, it is in the Whippany section of Hanover Township.

Local media

* WMTR is an AM radio station at 1250 kHz is licensed to Morristown and features an

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format. * WDHA is an FM radio station (105.5 FM) broadcasting from Dover with their main studios in Cedar Knolls, featuring a rock format. * WJSV radio and television (90.5 FM) is also in Morristown,WJSV(FM)
FCCInfo.com. Accessed October 6, 2013. the non-profit radio station of Morristown High School, which also has a television show which is shown on cable television, ''Colonial Corner''. *The '' Morristown Daily Record'' and ''

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'' and New Jersey Hills Media are published locally. *'' Hometown Tales'', a

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show and podcast chronicling stories and urban legends from around the world, is loosely based in Morristown. *
Shop Morris County
', the First Morris County Guide is a

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for finding local events, restaurants, news, and more in Morris County, NJ.

References

External links

Official website
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