Morris County Government history

1810, stock dividend, advertisement, Centinel of Freedom, Feb 20, 1810.

In 1831 the Morris Canal, conceived and developed by a Morristown resident, George F. MacCulloch, was completed through the county.

The Dickerson mine became one of the most prominent of the 1880’s after giving up more than one million tons of iron ore.

Source Citation: History of Morris County, New Jersey with Illustrations, and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens and Pioneers, 1739-1882; New York: W.W. Munsell & CO., 1882.

By 1900 the nation’s business and financial leaders, seeking escape from New York City, the financial capital of the nation, discovered Morris County, its isolation, ideal climate and unspoiled countryside, and started the construction of large country estates.

Boonton’s iron processors gained fame from nail production; Wharton attracted the tremendous foundry of the Replogle Steel Company, which closed in 1919; Kenvil, the giant Powder Company of California, later the Hercules Powder Company, and Dover, an extensive plant for making mine equipment.

1930: 4 staff, 7 children relocated to Mount Kemble Ave., Morris Township Census.

Much of its beauty has been protected and preserved by the Board of County Commissioners through its Park Commission, formed by referendum in 1955 to set aside and develop land for leisure time and recreational use.

To honor the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 2020, MCHS presents the exhibition series Cut from Different Cloth exploring various facets of women’s history.