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VOL. 36, NO. 2 Fall 2014

Re-Grant Fundin Available for 2015!

he Morris County Heritage Commission, an advi-sory body of the Morris County Board of ChosenFreeholders, is pleased to announce it has been

awarded funding from the New Jersey Historical Commis-sion (NJHC) to continue the Heritage Commission’shistory-related re-grant program in 2015. This funding hasbeen made available through the generous and continuedsupport through the General Operating Support grantprogram from the New Jersey Historical Commission. Thecounty freeholders have been supportive of the programwhich has allowed Morris County’s dedicated historycommunity to conserve and preserve historical documents,extend historic site hours of operation for the public, in-

c r e a s e a n dimprove ADaccessibility museums anhistoric sited e v e l o p eh i b i t s , a nother worthwhile projectsThe HeritagCommiss iowas awarde$18,684 foF i s c a l Y e a2015 to rgrant GenerO p e r a t i nSupport (GO

and pro je cf u n d i n g tMorris Counnonprofit hitory organiztions. If thorganizationprimary mision is oththan history

may still apply for funding for a history-related projecApplicants may apply for funding between $1,000 an

$5,000. Matching funds are not required. History organiztions that have not received GOS funding from the NJHmay apply for GOS to assist with insurance, utility, another general operating expenses or for history-relateprojects such as exhibits, collections management, archivsupplies, conservation, ADA compliance projects, and prfessional consulting.

The re-grant application booklet and instructions aavailable in PDF format for downloading a!!!"#$%%&'()%&*+,)"-)* . Completed re-grant applicationare due in the Heritage Commission offices on October 30

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Now used as museum space, the interior of the Richardson House has changed very little since 1873. The HistoricalSociety of Mount Tabor was one of five re-grant recipients in 2014. Article starts on page 4.

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ifty years ago on May 29, 1964, Secretary of the Interior StuartUdall signed a document that altered the course of MorrisCounty's future. On the Polo Field of Marcellus Hartley Dodge's

property in Harding Township, the Great Swamp Committee of the

North American Wildlife Foundation presented the first 2600 acres tothe U. S. Department of the Interior, solidifying an almost five-yeareffort to protect the natural landscape. Secretary Udall formally dedi-cated the gift creating the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, thefirst established under the Wilderness Act of 1964 signed by President

Johnson. Even more significant for the region, and to some degree alarge part of northern New Jersey, the wilderness preservation effec-tively blocked a proposal by the Port Authority of New York to drainthe swamp and build the world's largest commercial airport.

The jetport proposal, first made public in December 1959, causedextreme consternation throughout Morris County. The proposal calledfor a massive engineering project comparable in scale to segments of

the Panama Canal excavations. The ridge of Long Hill, the spine of theWatchung Mountains that defines the southern edge of ancient LakePassaic and winds to the west becoming the Basking Ridge in Somer-set County, would have been blasted down several hundred feet inelevation and its rubble used to fill in the swamp. The 10,000-acre jet-port would have obliterated the current townships of Harding andLong Hill. Support facilities, parking, hotels and malls would haveranged over many square miles in all directions.

A combination of forces pushed back. There were the local women,men and working farmers in and around the swamp shepherded byHelen Fenske. There was the economic muscle of Marcellus HartleyDodge, owner and president of the Remington Arms Company, andthe political team coordinated by Congressman Peter Frelinghuysen.They all battled with Port Authority executive director Austin Tobinand project enthusiast New Jersey governor Robert B. Meyner. EvenBell Laboratories president Bill Baker came out in opposition, lookingto protect Bell's facilities and tens of thousands of employees facingdisruption across the region. While one team concentrated on the eco-nomic and political challenges to stall and reverse the Port Authority'sintentions, another movement of proto-conservationists working inparallel saw the possibility of protecting and enhancing the naturalwilderness in the midst of the commuting suburbs not far from NewYork City. Their cooperative successes have given us a legacy of pro-gressive conservation.

Years later, current Harding mayor Nicolas Platt encountered then-retired interior secretary Udall. Udall, in his recollections, related thatin his opinion the battle for the Great Swamp was the birth of themodern conservation movement. Taking place in the decade before theestablishment of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Endan-gered Species Act, the Clean Water Act and even predating the 1962publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, another revolutionarychapter of American history was written in Morris County.

Commissioners’ Corner

Larry Fast, Chairman Morris County Heritage Commission

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Forris County’s major role in thedawning space age was firmlyestablished on Oct. 14, 1947,when Capt. Chuck Yeager, flying

the rocket-powered Bell X-1, became thefirst test pilot to successfully exceed thespeed of sound. The sound barrier hadbeen an impediment to increased aircraftspeed. The rocket motors which pow-ered the experimental aircraft were de-signed, fabricated and tested by ReactionMotors, Inc. in northern Morris County.

Members of the American Inter-planetary Society (AIS), a group of earlyrocket experimenters—Hugh Pierce,

John Shesta and Lovell Lawrence—were joined by James Hart Wyld in 1931. Aftergraduating from Princeton in 1935 with

a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Wylddeveloped a revolutionary design forregeneratively cooling liquid-fueledrocket motors, enabling them to with-stand the extreme temperatures gener-ated in their combustion chambers andnozzles. Between 1938 and 1941, Wyld’sdesigns were tested by the AIS experi-menters, by then renamed the AmericanRocket Society. The Navy Departmentwas so impressed that they awarded a

contract for jet-assisted-takeoff (JATO)devices needed for World War II. To ful-fill the proposed contract, the young sci-entists incorporated as Reaction Motors,Inc. (RMI) in 1941 and became the firstcommercial rocket company in the US.

Initial operations were conducted inPompton Lakes, Lawrence’s birthplacenot far from Wyld’s in Wayne. Testingwas done at Franklin Lakes between1942 and 1944. The firm moved toPompton Plains in 1943. Because of thenoise, the dangerous nature of the de-velopment work and the need for a moreisolated location, in 1946 RMI leasedland from the Navy on Snake Hill Road,Denville, the site of the disastrous 1926

Morris County,The Gateway to Space

(see Space on page 3)

This 1959 NASA image shows the X-15 #2 (56-6671) launching away from the B-52 mothershipwith its rocket engine ignited.



oday the scattered remnants ofthe Morris Canal can illustratefor us an industrial epoch that

profoundly influenced the landscapeof contemporary Morris County, but

only for those who know where tolook. More and more interests alongthe entire 102-mile route of the canalare working to connect these frag-ments of our history and make thestory more accessible and better un-derstood.

About 200 years ago GeorgeP. Macculloch, a Morristown busi-nessman and educator, conceived theidea for the Morris Canal while fish-ing at Lake Ho-p a t c o n g . T h e

o n c e v i b r a n tHighlands min-i n g a n d i r o nprocessing indus-tries were rust-ing. Furnacesand forges hadbeen overbuilt. Poor roads throughinhospitable terrain were inadequateto transport finished products outand to bring fuel in. Goods shippedacross the sea from Great Britaincompeted with iron products manu-factured just a few land miles away

from markets. Macculloch wonderedif by digging a trench across the statefrom Phillipsburg on the DelawareRiver to Newark Bay (and later to theHudson River through Jersey City)and by using Lake Hopatcong to fillthe trench, a canal could efficientlytransport Highlands iron. There werechallenges—for example, the eleva-tion changes along the canal routewere greater than the available tech-nology could overcome. Yet the na-tion at the time was gripped by an

enthusiasm for canal building, andwith determination the technical chal-lenges were met. Construction beganin 1825 and the canal was officiallyopened seven years later.

The Morris Canal jump-started the region’s economy. The ironindustry was saved. In addition toshipping processed iron and otherproducts east to markets, anthracitefrom the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylva-nia was brought in to fuel furnace

and forge operations, farmers foundnew buyers for their crops, finishedgoods were shipped in for the newlywealthy, and villages and townssprang up at canal ports and where

the canal boats queued at basinsawaiting entry through the Canal’ssystems of locks and inclined planes.It was an era of rapid growth and de-velopment. But the era of the MorrisCanal would not be a long one. By the1880s railroads were rapidly sup-planting the canal for efficiency. Boattraffic on the Morris Canal ceased in1924, and by 1929 its dismantling wascomplete.

The ent irelength of the canal

was designated anationally regis-tered Historic Dis-trict in 1973. Since2012 the North

Jersey Transporta-t i o n P l a n n i n g

Authority has convened a workinggroup of stakeholders to coordinateplans of converting the canal routeinto a public greenway. Both Warrenand Passaic counties have draftedcomprehensive plans to develop acanal greenway through their towns.

Following the 102-mile routeacross the state, the Morris CanalGreenway is planned as a recreationaltrail based on a unifying historicaltheme. Two-thirds of the canal’s spanis within the state and nationally sig-nificant Highlands region, where over500 mines and associated iron worksoperated. The greenway connectsthe twelve Morris County canaltowns with the larger, regional, High-lands historical context and with theurban cities towards the canal’s east-

ern terminal. A similarly dependentrelationship exists today betweenMorris County and the larger High-lands region and in turn, with New

Jersey’s northeastern cities. The re-source is no longer iron, but water.

It is a rare opportunity tohave a historical resource that con-nects so broad an area to a commonhistorical theme and with a univer-sally enjoyed, easily accessed, recrea-tional activity. !

Morris Canal Greenwayby Elliott Ruga

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Lake Denmark Powder Depotexplosion. Most of RMI’s significanttesting took place at this location,continuing there even after the Navytransferred the test area to theArmy’s Picatinny Arsenal in 1960.Manufacturing and administrativefacilities were established in Rocka-way in 1949 and newer premises setup in Denville in 1955. By 1958,when it merged with Thiokol Corpo-ration, the company had $25 millionin sales and 1,639 employees.Thiokol dissolved the RMI divisionin 1972. Residents of Morris andwestern Essex counties will recall thethunderous noise of rocket-enginetesting from the 1940s through the1960s.

Near the end of World War II,the Army contracted with Reaction

Motors to develop rocket propulsionsystems for the postwar experimen-tal “X” planes. The first to be devel-oped was the X-1, intended to probethe difficulties in achieving faster-than-sound flight, a quest which hadalready proved fatal for British aero-nautic researchers. RMI’s engine,designated the XLR11 “Black Betsy,”successfully powered the historic1947 X-1 flight and many successorflights of the X-1A through X1-Esand the X-2.

Awarded a contract in 1956,

RMI’s larger, throttleable engine, theXLR99, became the engine used inthe near-space flights of NACA’s(later NASA) X-15 rocket plane. Early in the X-15’s flight history,with the XLR99 still under develop-ment, a pair of venerable X-1-eraXLR11’s powered the prototypespaceplanes. Among the X-15 testpilots was Neil Armstrong.

Wyld’s breakthrough rocketmotor designs, the basis of all mod-ern liquid-fueled rockets, are part ofthe Smithsonian National Air and

Space Museum’s collection.

TheAmerican Institute of Aeronauticsand Astronomics created the JamesH. Wyld Propulsion Award in 1948,which is presented to honorachievements in rocket propulsion. Wyld died at age 41 in 1953 and hasbeen memorialized by the Wyld Cra-ter on the Moon, discovered thanksto his own inventive work. !

(from Space on page 2)

Article developed from a suggestion received from Gus Magistro of the Gateway To SpaceProject.



n the aftermath of the Civil War,evangelical camp meetings gainedwide recognition and popularity,

with several thousand camp meetinggrounds established throughout thecountry before the end of the nine-teenth century. Morris County’s Mt.Tabor community is an outgrowth ofthe camp meeting movement.

The county’s first campgroundopened in Morristown when the New

Jersey delegation returned from thecentenary national Methodist confer-ence in Washington, D.C., andlaunched a ten-day revival in August1866 on rented land near SpeedwellLake. By 1868, 15,000 people were

attending the Speedwell Camp Meet-ing. The success of the venture led tothe purchase of 30.5 acres ofland from W.H. and NathanielDickerson for a permanentsite.

Located near Denville andon the rail line, “Mount Tabor”was named after the mountainin Israel that is believed to bethe site of the transfigurationof Christ. The Camp MeetingAssociation of the NewarkConference of the MethodistEpiscopal Church (CMA) wasorganized in 1869, and the firstrevival took place in MountTabor that summer.

T h e c a m p m e e t i n gmovement, especial ly inMount Tabor, was most attrac-tive to urban residents. Manycame from Jersey City, New-ark, Paterson and Elizabeth toescape the heat and frenzy of

that urban life for ten days ofdaily preaching and prayer.Ocean Grove, a Methodistcamp meeting that remains areligious destination, wasfounded during the same yearas Mount Tabor. Other campmeetings that still exist in New

Jersey include Malaga (West Jersey Grove), also founded in 1869;South Seaville, founded in 1865; andPitman Grove, founded in 1871.

Mount Tabor is an example of anearly “planned” community. It fol-lowed the layout of Wesleyan Groveon Martha’s Vineyard upon whichmost camp meetings were designed.The CMA established a unique char-ter with the state of New Jersey thatempowered the board of trustees withthe rights and privileges of a munici-pality.

The heart of the Mount Taborcommunity was the octagonal-shapedTrinity Park anchored at the end bythe main elongated octagonal Taber-nacle constructed in 1885, replacingthe original smaller 1869 structure.Two smaller octagonal religious meet-

ing pavilions anchored the sides ofthe park. Tent lots lined the park in

concentric circles. Trinity Park wasthe physical and spiritual center of thecommunity. The slope of the hillsideformed a natural amphitheater for the

outdoor sermons held under the leafycanopy of the trees.

The tent lots were narrow 16-by-25-foot rectangles densely packedaround narrow streets. The originalcanvas tents were simple affairs, con-structed on wood platforms. In thefirst year, more than 300 tent siteswere subscribed. As popularity grewsmall cottages were built on the tentlots, creating the vernacular architec-ture common to many camp meetingsand representative of the 1870 to 1890period—Stick style-influenced twostory frame cottages with a prominenfront gable, board-and-batten sidingand articulated Victorian embellish

ments.Permanent cottages were built by

some of Morris and Sussex countiesmost prominent families, includingthe Honorable Peter Smith of Water-loo Village; the Rev. Jonathan TownleyCrane, whose fourteenth child wasthe novelist Stephen Crane; Mrs. OseeFitzgerald, a pillar of the Mt. Taborreligious community and mother ofMethodist Bishop James Fitzgeraldand William Hixson, who lived inMontville Village and was the easternsupervisor of the Morris Canal.

The 1873 home of one early found-ing family, the Richardsons, is beingrestored and preserved by the MounTabor Historical Society (MTHS). JSmith Richardson was a trustee of theCMA for more than 30 years and itstreasurer for 22 years of that periodWhat is now known as the RichardsonHistory House comprises one-third oa Second Empire-style “triple cottage”constructed across three of the tiny

lots. This unique construction enabledthe three families to maximize theirvery limited building space.

Located on Trinity Park, the Rich-ardson house allows visitors to experi-ence what it was like to spend a sum-mer “camp meeting style.” With theother cottages around Trinity Park, thelocation also provides a distinctiveview of the planned layout of the

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The Richardsons on the front porch of the cottage c. 1885

(see Mount Tabor on page 5)

Summer Camping in Morris County — Nineteenth Century-StyleBy Michelle LaConto Munn, Mount Tabor Historical Society

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Jefferson Historical Society and the Township Library are PartneringBy Christine Williams, president, Jefferson Township Historical Society

Seth Stephens, director of Jefferson Township Public Library, receiving the donation from Pearlann McManus, member of the Board of Trustees of the Jefferson Township HistoricalSociety. Not pictured: Christine Williams, President of the Jefferson Township HistoricalSociety.

historical research center willbe established at the JeffersonTownship Public Library

through a donation by the JeffersonTownship Historical Society. Mrs.Christine Williams, president of the

Jefferson Township Historical Society,along with Pearlann McManus, amember of its board of trustees, re-cently presented a check for $800 toSeth Stephens, director of the library.The historical society identified aneed for an area at the library specifi-cally dedicated for local research andraised the funds to make this dona-tion possible. Historical documentsand books that the historical society

owns will be copied and made avail-able for public use in the new histori-cal research center.

The library and historical societyhave a long history of collaboration.In fact, the building that now housesthe Jefferson Township Museum, theGeorge Chamberlain House, wasonce the Violet Riker Library, prede-cessor of the township library. Thesociety maintains a display case inthe township library which is man-

aged by society members to reflectthe activities at the museum. Themuseum staff, along with the re-search librarian, selects a theme eachyear for the museum. The librarythen sets displays and offers booksand programs to support this theme.This year, in keeping with the mu-seum’s theme of “Little House in theValley,” a library staff member cameto the museum during its open houseto read prose and poetry by LauraIngalls Wilder, author of Little Houseon the Prairie.

For more information on the Jef-ferson Township Historical Societyand the new historical research center

at the Jefferson Township Public Li-brary, please contact PearlannMcManus, publicist, Jefferson Town-ship Historical Society, at

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or 973.208.8601; or Christine Wil-liams, president, Jefferson TownshipHistorical Society, at

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or 973.697.0258.!

Acommunity with many features re-maining from its original religiousfounding in 1869.

Furthering its efforts to preserveand maintain the Richardson house,the MTHS received planning grants

in 2011 from the Morris County His-toric Preservation Trust to covercosts to develop a Preservation Plan.Part of the plan includes the HistoricDistrict Register of Historic Placesapplication for the original camp-ground and over 220 buildings. Thisnomination is currently under re-view at the State Historic Preserva-tion Office.

The Richardson History Housewill remain open during restoration

and preservation work scheduledfor fall 2014 and spring 2015. Fund-ing through two construction grantsfrom the Morris County HistoricPreservation Trust will cover roof-ing and electrical projects, a rearporch ADA ramp, and interiorpainting. In addition, a GeneralOperating Support grant has beenreceived from the Morris CountyHeritage Commission to help withinsurance, heating and postage ex-penses.

The MTHS hosts an annual his-toric house tour on the last Satur-day in September. This year’s eventis Saturday, September 27, and willfeature seventeen private homes,one tent and eight public sites. Thesociety also participates in thePathways of History tour of historicsites in northern Morris County,which will take place this year onSaturday, October 11 from 10 a.m. –4 p.m. and Sunday, October 12 from

noon – 4 p.m. Additional informa-tion is available at

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The MTHS welcomes visitorsto the Richardson History Housethe second Sunday of each month.For more information contact theMTHS by telephone at 973.975.0001or email 9:;<49$0-*:+1$%=>"$%,

and visit their website at !!!"9$0-*:+1$%=>"$%,.!

(from Mount Tabor on page 4)

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Morristown Daily Record

March 5, 1942

Rationing of Gas Likely

Says IckesWashington (AP) – Petro-leum Coordinator Ickessaid today he expected toknow by [the] weekendwhether the oil industrybelieved gasoline rationingwould be necessary and headded that he “very likely”would follow the industryrecommendation.

Also, he told his press con-ference, a decision was duesoon on an industry rec-o mme nd at i o n fo r [a ]nation-wide 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.curfew [at] filling stations.


March 5, 1942

No Crude Rubber for Citi-

zens TiresWashington (AP) – LeonHenderson told the Senate

Defense invest igatingcommittee today that “not asingle pound of crude rub-ber” would be available fornew tires or retreads on theupwards of 30,000,000 pas-senger cars now owned by the ordi-nary citizen in this country.


March 6, 1942

Typewriters Now FrozenWashington (AP) – The War Produc-tion Board last night froze all salesand deliveries of new and usedtypewriters, effective at midnight.The order, expected to be followed

shortly by a rationingprogram, was intended to

conserve the supply oftypewriters for essentialuse.The WPB decrees prohibittypewriter rentals, and givepersons who now haverented machines in theirpossession until April 1 toreturn them….


March 7, 1942

Boy Scouts Active in Mor-

ristown Gathering De-

fense Waste PaperUnder the direction of Dan-iel D. Riley, Scout Executiveand Harold Eaton of theExecutive Board, all the BoyScout Troops of Morristownhave been assigned to vari-ous sections for regular col-lection of waste paper. Mr. Eaton has zoned thetown using the Air Raid

Warden Zone Map, andassigned each troop bothfor paper collection andother defense services.Proceeds derived from thesale of wastepaper collected

by the Scouts will be used to defraythe cost of scout camping and otheractivities . . . one third to charity: RedCross, U.S.O. and others.

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Quips and Quotes from Morris County’s Past By Peg Shultz

(see Quips & Quotes on page 7)

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Posters advocating wartime scrap material recycling createdcommunity involvement and support for the war effort.



Morristown Daily Record March 11, 1942

Cans to Tanks – Cannons Now Pos-

sible; Salvage Under WayTrenton – New Jersey municipalitiesa r e m a k i n g

plans for a yearround collec-tion of tin cansto aid the warefforts.

Since thep r o g r a mm a i n l y c o n -cerns women,s e v e r a lwomen’s or-g a n i z a t i o n shave offered

leadership inthe continuingcampaign toput every canback into production. Two of the slo-gans evolved from their efforts havebeen recognized in Washington –“Many Tanks for Your Tin Cans” and“Cans to Cannons.”

Housewives are urged to preparethe cans immediately after use so thatthe few cans each day may be quicklyreadied and put aside for the collec-

tion day. Compactness is necessaryin trucking the cans so that severaltons may be carried in each truck-load.

In order to permit the detinningsolution to work throughout the can,it is necessary to remove both ends ofthe can, clean it thoroughly, flatten itand remove the paper label.


April 4, 1942

Entire Quota of Tires Issued Here in

March - 39 Tires, 46 Tubes AllottedThe entire quota of tires for themonth of March for Morristown wasused and many applicants have beencarried over into April for considera-tion subject to the limits of the quota.


April 6, 1942

Names Salvage Wardens for Town

and Twp. Waste Paper and Tin Cans

Sought – To Tell Housekeepers HowSome sections of the town and town-ship have been without adequate col-lection of waste paper according tothe finding of 58 salvage wardens.

“. . .[T]he salvage wardens notonly obtain information regarding

collection, but educate the household-ers on the need for saving wastepaperand how to do so.”

During the coming week house-holders will be told how to dispose oftheir tin cans. Onlyproperly prepared, cleancans will be accepted.

Morristown Daily Record May 1, 1942

Making Plans for Regis-

try for GasolineTrenton – An advancecopy of the official planfor gasoline rationinghas reached the StateRationing headquarterstoday. In general, theplan for the registrationof motorists on May 12,13, and 14 will followthe pattern to be usednext week for civilianregistration for sugarrationing.

County clerks willact as consignees of thegasoline ration cardsand registration formsand the State’s elemen-tary schools will be usedas registration sites with

school teachers performing the dutiesof registrars under the supervision ofPrincipals acting as Site Administra-tors. County superintendents ofschools will cooperate with CountyRationing authorities and Local Rationing Boards to supervise registration in each county.

Morristown Daily Record May 1, 1942

Instructions for Securing Sugar

Cards – People Asked to go on Days

by AlphabetInstructions for Civilian Registrationfor sugar cards have been released. . .

All consumer registrants willregister in the elementary schoowhich serves the neighborhood inwhich they live between Monday andThursday from 2 to 8 o’clock.

The person who registers for theentire family unit must be able to fur-nish information for every member ofthe family unit…. The person who isto register for the entire family unimust declare the total amount inpounds of white and brown sugar inany form which is owned by the fam-ily unit or its members.!

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(from Quips & Quotes on page 6)



Publication of the Morris CountyBoard of Chosen Freeholders

Thomas J. Mastrangelo, DirectorDavid Scapicchio, Deputy Director

Douglas R. CabanaJohn Cesaro

Kathryn A. DeFillippo John KrickusWilliam “Hank” Lyon

Morris County Heritage CommissionLarry Fast, Chairman

Bonnie-Lynn Nadzeika, Vice Chairman Miriam Morris, Secretary Kathy Murphy, Treasurer

Epsey Farrell, Ph.D.

Kathy FisherJoyce Kanigel Joe Macasek

Elliott Ruga

Peg Shultz, Archivist/Acting Director

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