Municipal Surveys
Note: The Cultural Resources Inventory application is currently under construction.
About
In 1986, The Morris County Heritage Commission, sponsored by the Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders (now County Commissioners) conducted the first county-wide cultural resources survey.
Undertaken back then by the professional consulting firm known as Acroterion, each of the thirty-nine municipalities that make up Morris County was surveyed to locate and identify sites important historically and culturally both to Morris County and the United States.
As over twenty years have passed since The Acroterion’s report, Morris County’s Office of Planning and Preservation has begun taking stock of its historic and cultural features, primarily to:
- document changes that have occurred over the last 20 years to existing historic sites
- add historic sites that were over-looked in 1986
- define boundaries for historic districts
- verify what sites have been demolished
- verify what sites have been relocated into or out of Morris County
- showcase the broad spectrum of cultural resources Morris County offers
- map Morris County’s historic sites
This page lists all available Morris County municipal surveys.
Boonton Town
Established 1867
Boonton Township
Established 1867
“From the Waters of the Rockaway to the Peak of the Tourne”
Butler
Established 1901
“Porta ad Lacus” (“Gateway to the Lakes”)
Chatham Borough
Established 1897
Chatham Township
Established 1806
Chester Borough
Established 1930
Chester Township
Established 1753
Denville
Established 1913
“The Hub of Morris County”
Dover
Established 1722
East Hanover
Established 1928
Florham Park
Established 1899
Hanover Township
Established 1676
Harding
Established 1922
Jefferson Township
Established 1804
Kinnelon
Established 1922
“Where the Future is Enriched by the Past”
Lincoln Park
Established 1922
Long Hill
Established 1866
Madison
Established 1889
- Original 1986 Madison Survey
Mendham Borough
Established 1906
Mendham Township
Established 1749
Mine Hill
Established 1923
Montville
Established 1867
Morris Plains
Established 1926
Morris Township
Established 1740
Morristown
Established 1865
Mount Arlington
Established 1890
Mount Olive
Established 1871
Mountain Lakes
Established 1924
Netcong
Established 1894
Parsippany-Troy Hills
Established 1928
Pequannock
Established 1740
“Pax In Virtute” (“Peace in Virtue”)
Randolph
Established 1805
Riverdale
Established 1923
“Progress With a Purpose”
Rockaway Borough
Established 1894
Rockaway Township
Established 1844
“Forging America’s Freedom – Morris County’s Iron Spirit”
Roxbury
Established 1740
Victory Gardens
Established 1951
Washington Township
Established 1798
Wharton
Established 1895
“Tradition With Progress”