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VOL. 35, No. 2

Summer 2013

Mountain Lakes: A Milestone in Historic Preservation By John Steen

New Documentary Film Celebrates Denville’s Centennial
By Vito Bianco
he Township of Denville has been celebrating its hundredth birthday all year including a gala, a parade, a picnic and more. To mark the anniversary the Denville Historical Society has produced Our Hometown: Celebrating Denville’s Centennial, a film in which, for the first time, the town’s history will be told. Denville's rich history dates back to the Lenape period when it was named Watnong, lying along a branch of the Minisink Trail between what would become Morristown and Sparta. Much later, in the eighteenth century, English settlers came to the area and developed farms, mills and forges along the confluence of the Rockaway River and Den Brook. This is where Job Allen established an ironworks in the early 1730s, and Jacob Ford Sr. operated a forge, and built his house near Lake Openaki in the 1750s. By the beginning of the Revolutionary War, twenty families were residing in the Den Brook area. Then with the construction of the Morris Canal in the 1830s, Denville had a significant increase in industry including a lumberyard, general store and several distilleries. These activities were not enough to spoil the bucolic landscape or pollute the clean air and, with water cures all the rage in the late nineteenth century, visitors from larger towns and cities sought out Denville to enjoy the Diamond Spring and Saint Francis health resorts. They began to build summer homes along the shores of (see Denville on page 8)

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Mountain Lakes Association Clambake at the First House Occupied in Mountain Lakes, September 4, 1911

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ne Morris County municipality has received recognition from professional planners for its unique success in historic preservation, success never achieved in any other community in our nation. What distinguishes its achievement is that it is not just a site that was preserved, but the character of a whole community. How that was came about is a story that deserves circulation beyond Mountain Lakes, because it exemplifies the best in American democratic community governance.

American City Planning Since 1890, by Mel Scott, is a standard history that traces its subject up to 1969. In the section on responses to development pressures, Scott bemoans the lack of tools and authority for communities to resist unwanted new development. He writes:
Most planners could cite but one community which had acquired almost all the developable land within its boundaries and which was able to

(see Mountain Lakes on page 4)

A Community Treasure—the Morris Museum Celebrates Centennial Year
By Linda Moore, Executive Director
traordinary cultural gem that has been serving the community and the surrounding region with innovative programming in the arts, sciences, and humanities for visitors of all ages. From the start, education has been at the heart of the Morris Museum’s mission and is evident in the comprehensive education programs offered onsite and through outreach to schools and community venues. This mission is pursued passionately by the trustees, staff and volunteers alike as the Museum celebrates its Centennial in 2013. As one of New Jersey’s largest and most dynamic cultural institutions, and the third largest museum in the state, the Morris Museum has served generations of families that Twin Oaks, the former Frelinghuysen estate in Morristown has been home to the grew up gazing at the giant brown bear, exMorris Museum since 1964. In 1973, the Morris Museum became the first museum in ploring geology in the Rock and Mineral New Jersey to be accredited by the American Association of Museums. Gallery, and laughing at children’s theater in the Bickford Theatre. They have discovered dinosaurs of pre-historic New Jersey rom its inception in a modest curio cabinet in the and constellations of the night sky. They have marveled Morristown Neighborhood House in 1913 to the at the creativity of the craft artisan, thrilled at the imagimove in 1964 to its current home in the former (see Morris Museum on page 8) Frelinghuysen Mansion, the Morris Museum is an ex-

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Morris County Is Approaching Its 275th Anniversary of Incorporation
by Peg Shultz

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orris County was incorporated on March 15, 1738/ 1739, from portions of Hunterdon County and is approaching its 275th anniversary. The confusion in the year relates to the Old Style (OS) and New Style (NS) calendars being used during the colonial period. OS and NS are used in English-language historical studies to indicate either that the date conforms to the Julian calendar or that the start of the Julian year has been adjusted to start on January 1 (NS) even though documents written at the time use a different start of year (OS). Until 1751 in England, Wales, and all British dominions, the New Year started on March 25.! Therefore, if March 25 is used as the first day of the New Year, the county was incorporated in 1738. If the January 1 date is used, then the year 1739 applies. Morris County was named for the Governor of the Province of New Jersey, Colonel Lewis Morris. Carved
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out of what had been the original area of Morris County under British rule were Sussex County, incorporated on June 8, 1753, and Warren County, incorporated on November 20, 1824. Originally encompassing all of Morris County and parts of Sussex and Warren County, Hanover Township became too unmanageable for a single local government to maintain. Morris and Mendham townships dual dates of incorporation reflect the colonial and post-Revolutionary War incorporations. Below are the traditional periods of settlement and incorporation dates of the municipalities in Morris County. Hanover and Pequannock Township incorporation dates reflect the colonial creation and colonial incorporation dates. If you would like to learn more about your town and neighboring communities, mouse over the municipality name for links to township and borough websites. !

Governor Lewis Morris by John Watson. Born in 1671, Morris was the first colonial governor of New Jersey. He took office in 1738 and died in office in 1746. Morris County, Morristown, Morris Plains, and Morris Township are named in his honor.

When Is Your Town’s Anniversary?
Municipality 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 Boonton Township Boonton Butler Chatham Borough Chatham Township Chester Township Chester Borough Denville Township Dover East Hanover Florham Park Harding Hanover Township Jefferson Township Kinnelon Lincoln Park Long Hill Township Madison Mendham Borough Mendham Township Mine Hill Montville Morris Township Morristown Morris Plains Mount Arlington Mount Olive Mountain Lakes Netcong Parsippany Pequannock Randolph Riverdale Rockaway Boro Rockaway Township Roxbury Victory Gardens Washington Township Wharton Settled 1710 1747 1850s 1710 1710 1720s 1730 1730s 1722 1708 1690s 1700 1708 1720 1760s 1760s 1730 1715 1749 1720s 1715 1710s 1740 1715 1690s 1720s 1740 1911 1780s 1740 1695 1713 1690s 1730 1710s 1710 1941 1700 1750s Incorporated April 11, 1867 March 1, 1867 March 13, 1901 March 1, 1897 February 12, 1806 April 1, 1799 1930 April 13, 1913 April 1, 1869 May 9, 1928 1899 1922 December 7, 1720 March 25, 1740 1804 1922 March 11, 1922 1866 December 27, 1889 May 15, 1906 March 29, 1749 February 21, 1798 March 2, 1923 April 11, 1867 March 25, 1740 February 21,1798 April 6, 1865 April 15, 1926 November 3, 1890 March 22, 1871 March 3, 1924 October 23, 1894 May 9, 1928 March 1, 1720 March 21, 1740 January 1, 1806 1923 June 19, 1894 April 8, 1844 December 24, 1740 June 20, 1951 April 2, 1798 June 28, 1895 Separated From Pequannock Township Pequannock and Hanover Townships Pequannock Township Chatham Township Hanover and Morris Townships Roxbury and Washington Townships Chester Township Rockaway Township Randolph Township Hanover Township Hanover and Chatham Township Passaic Township Hunterdon County Pequannock Township Pequannock Township Pequannock Township Morris Township Chatham Township Mendham Township Hanover, Morris, and Rockaway Twps Randolph Township Pequannock Township Hunterdon County Morris Township Hanover Township Hanover Township Roxbury Township Boonton and Hanover Townships Mount Olive and Roxbury Townships Hanover Township Hunterdon County Mendham Township Pequannock Township Rockaway Township Pequannock/Hanover Morris Township Randolph Township Roxbury Township Randolph and Rockaway Townships

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The Esplanade — a park visible upon visitors’ arrival at the Mountain Lakes RR station that was reminiscent of Central Park.

The Esplanade — a park visible upon visitors’ arrival at the Mountain Lakes RR station that was reminiscent of Central Park. (from Mountain Lakes on page 1)
regulate the tempo of its growth by marketing only a limited number of lots annually. This was the wealthy borough of Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. Few other communities had the financial resources to follow its example even if their state legislatures had given them the legal authority, and there was as yet little indication that American lawmakers were persuaded that local governments should emulate the various European municipalities which had long managed their expansion in the manner of the New Jersey borough. (p.508)

ing control and maintaining control over its future development. The borough’s mayor at that time, Halsey Frederick, stated that, “We controlled the future development of Mountain Lakes in a way which zoning laws and deed restrictions could never have controlled, because we owned it.” The Genesis of an Ideal Planned Community The key question for a historian is how those steps came about. An understanding of those landmark decisions in self-governance begins a generation earlier so, for their context we must go back to the very beginning. “Mountain Lakes Residential Park” was the vision of Herbert J. Hapgood, a developer from Long Island, New York who began the development in 1908. The “park” in its

The key steps that resulted in the borough’s coming to control its further development were taken over a fifteen-year period, 1937 to 1952. The process involved the purchase of any lands that were in danger of being developed adversely to the character of the community, and thereby seiz-

name was meant to signify a planned community, a garden suburb in a sylvan setting, like Llewellyn Park in West Orange (1853), Riverside Park, Illinois (1869), and Tuxedo Park, NY (1885). The topographically appropriate landscape plan was overseen by Hapgood’s associate, Arthur T. (“Pinky”) Holton, who would later go on to be Miami Beach’s landscape engineer. All of the houses and lands sold by Hapgood to residents came with covenants referred to as “property restrictions,” controls that many towns subsequently addressed through zoning laws. Examples of his covenants are for residential districts, hundred-foot frontage requirements, and uniform setbacks. Even the very limited number of stores that Hapgood built in 1913 for the convenience of his residents were segregated from homes through their placement on the

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edge of the development, a consideration that most towns would only begin to address through zoning in the 1920s. Control of development was paramount in Hapgood’s planning in order to prevent obtrusive elements from finding their way into the community. If the growth of the community could be controlled so as to ensure congenial neighbors, one’s home could be open to the outdoors, and the outdoors could blend into one’s neighbor’s without need for fences or walls. The homes he built were large for the time, designed for simplicity, and representing stability and quality. These were the characteristics sought by the people to whom he marketed his vision of an ideal community, and he targeted New York City corporate executives through a sales office near Wall Street. Hapgood acknowledged the aim of his development to be the attraction of progressively minded people into a new community explicitly designed for community life to flourish. He himself resided in Mountain Lakes during its first decade. Within four months of the arrival of its first residents in 1911, he encouraged the establishment by those residents of a civic organization, the Mountain Lakes Association, to represent their interests. The Association was created the second time residents met, and Mr. Hapgood was present at its next meeting when officers were elected. In its establishment, we find the seed of selfgovernance that is Mountain Lakes’ signal achievement as a community. In its 1911 Constitution, we can see its potential:
The purposes and objects for which the Association is formed, are to preserve, safeguard and protect the common interests and rights of property in Mountain Lakes, and to undertake and execute measures for the general welfare and security

of all interested in the improvement and development of Mountain Lakes.

The Mountain Lakes Association discharged that mandate throughout the development years until Hapgood’s company became overextended from business affairs outside of Mountain Lakes and declared bankruptcy in 1922. At least five years before that the Association began considering incorporation of Mountain Lakes as a borough. For the first decade of the burgeoning community, it was responsible for seeing that Hapgood’s development company delivered on all the promises Hapgood had made to residents in attracting them to it. Over that decade, most of Hapgood’s vision became reality, but it was the residents who fulfilled it. And a large proportion of those residents were women. The task fell naturally to the wives who lived there all week while their husbands commuted to New York City. Their role was the one they played in their own families, now extended into the community to create schools, churches, clubs, gardens, and that new commu-

nity’s culture. They founded the community’s first library in 1914. Even the potential in the development’s setting and landscaping to meld the community into the appearance of one vast, continuous estate fell to the garden clubs to be achieved. Hapgood’s bankruptcy freed the covenants from his control and called into question what sort of future Mountain Lakes would have. That crisis would prove to be the crucible out of which the community’s future was forged. The Mountain Lakes Association didn’t want a new developer to come on the scene who would not respect the existing property restrictions and thereby change the community radically, ruin property values, and ultimately the ideal family life of the community. The Association decided that Mountain Lakes had to become self-governing. Up until that time, Mountain Lakes had been contained within Hanover and Boonton townships, with Boonton as its post office address. In less than a year, March to December 1923, the Association won the support of the community for incorporation of Mountain

Verandah, Mountain Lakes Club, 1917

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Lakes as a borough, a goal achieved in April 1924. Development of new homes continued under a reorganized company with the covenants intact, and by 1927 the new borough had promulgated its first zoning ordinance. Two New Crises Challenge Its Future The Depression brought a new crisis. The reorganized development company, too, went into bankruptcy. Properties fell into arrears and into the hands of banks for non-payment of mortgages. Once again, the young borough was losing control of its future. This time it had a mayor who knew what had to be done, and he did it. The borough’s aces-in-the-hole were its tax liens, giving it prior authority over the ownership of properties in arrears. By 1939, Mayor Frederick successfully purchased mortgaged properties with an assessed value of $180,000, and a market value of about $700,000, for a total outlay of less than $2,000. He was then able to come up with a plan to preserve some of that land, to market other properties in a measured, reasonable way into the 1940s, and through the sale of those properties, to realize more than was actually owed the borough in taxes. He declared: “Perhaps most important of all we have, by agreements with the

development company and by zoning, confirmed for the future the character of Mountain Lakes as a fine residential park.” That meant that there would be no intrusive development in the borough, a promise still being kept today. It was a generation later when the first new commercial district was created, and then only as a consequence of Borough Council deliberation over rising tax rates. Property taxes rose quickly between the 1950s and 1960s, largely due to the absence of ratables in the borough. In 1966, the Council decided to foster some limited commercial development along State Route 46, its southern boundary. In the years following the end of World War II, developers sought attractive lands on which to build new homes for growing families. Mountain Lakes included land that was owned by ice companies whose business – cutting ice for shipment to the cities by rail – was ending due to refrigeration. That land was purchased by a developer who drew up plans to build homes on it. Mountain Lakes’ Planning Board was in continuous discussion and negotiation with the developer, but it eventually came to deem the presumptive developer no longer credible, fearing he would not develop the property in keeping with the character of Mountain Lakes. Then Mayor Richard Wilcox decided that another purchase was necessary.

He was well qualified to do so, having acted as Mayor Frederick’s emissary in negotiating with legislators in Trenton for the authority to make the first purchase while he was a councilman. In July 1952, the borough purchased 240 acres including three lakes for $60,000. The Mountain Lakes of today is comprised of 1899 acres, of which 511 acres are parkland and conservation areas, and 167 acres are lakes, totaling over 35 percent as borough-owned open space. Much of the parkland and conservation areas are the fruits of the 1939 and 1952 borough land purchases. The borough’s Master Plan states that it “is characterized by relatively compact and dense (in comparison to other communities in Morris County) residential neighborhoods.! The relative compactness and density are, however, compensated for by publicly owned open space areas that are located throughout the community.! The combination of large areas of open space and relatively high density neighborhoods has a net result of essentially a very large cluster development with houses on relatively small lots but compensated for by substantial open space areas.”! For over half a century, it has been borough policy not to sell borough-owned property that has served for a period of many years as open space, conservation, and recreational areas. The historic value of Mountain Lakes as a planned residential park community was recognized with its successful application for designation on the State and National Registers of Historic Places in 2005. “That The Spirit of the Place May Endure” When Mountain Lakes acquired its railroad station in 1912, the Directors of the Mountain Lakes Association left a time capsule message in its cornerstone that begins with this wish: “That the Mountain Lakes, which you shall know, shall have fulfilled the splendid promise of the

Mountain Lake, view toward the Mountain Lakes Club (1915)
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Mountain Lakes when it had realized its landscaping potential in the late 1920s: View toward the first school, with the Mountain Lakes Club on Mountain Lake behind it. Mountain Lakes of 1912.” It then goes on to offer a second wish:
And while thus bespeaking for you a Mountain Lakes better still than that of to-day in what is material and external, one further wish is ours, that the spirit of the place may endure…. available, continuous self-renewal. This maintains the integrity of the community’s character only so long as its historic resources are sufficiently persuasive to attract new people, structures, and institutions which are in harmony with the old through a natural process of selfselection. Identity, character, and pride are as much values for a community as for a person, and they serve a like purpose. They make possible the integrity of each. A community’s investment in the continued consensus of its members about these values is its investment in its future. !

Preservation is a tool we use to ensure that what comes later is in harmony with what’s already here, in part to insure that “the spirit of the place may endure.” Though all the elements involved in Mountain Lakes’ preservation efforts were tangible ones, what was really being preserved was the integrity of the community. In a 1989 essay, I wrote:
It is too much to expect permanence in a community, but Mountain Lakes offers us a realistic substitute: continuity of design and of lifestyle, signifying the preservation of cherished values. Those structures, institutions, and sites which provide the continuity of a community are its true landmarks. They make possible the preservation of its original character through the only mechanism

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(from Morris Museum on page 2) nation of the fine artist, and been lecturers. From fine art to fossils, cules, there is something for everyone at the Morris Museum. Today, the Morris Museum serves more than 440,000 adults and children annually, evolving over the past 100 years to the Morris Junior Museum in the Maple Avenue School and on to its present home, led for 25 years by the extraordinary original director, Chester H. Newkirk. The Museum’s dedicated volunteer corps numbers more than 400 active volunteers who contribute more than 15,000 hours each year. As its collection, which contains more than 40,000 objects, grew, the physical plant also grew from 1956 through 1985 to include the Bickford Theatre, classrooms, and galleries, and has continued to expand with the addition of a new wing in 2007 to house the renowned 750-piece Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of mechanical musical

inspired by engaging from music to mole-

instruments and automata. With this expansion, the Museum entrance was transformed with the two-story pavilion, adding a modern note, which blends with the original red brick mansion. This recent expansion captures the essence of the Morris Museum, a blending of the old and the new, an eclectic mix of historic masterpieces and contemporary innovations. The first museum to be accredited in New Jersey, the Morris Museum was recently reaccredited in 2013 by the American Alliance of Museums. This accreditation brings national recognition to a museum for its commitment to excellence, accountability, high professional standards, and continued institutional improvement. At the Morris Museum there is excellence and there is innovation. There is also excitement about the future role of the Morris Museum in the community. For more information on exhibits, This c. 1910 French Limonaire Orchestrophone is part special programs and to see of the Guinness Collection at the Morris Museum. what’s happening, please visit www.morrismuseum.org ! filmed near the Denville railroad tower, and the music of legendary jazz guitarist Tony Mottola, a longtime Indian Lake resident. Under the supervision of director Patrick Flynn, thousands of old photographs were scanned along with hundreds of hours of archival film footage, and numerous interviews with residents were conducted to create this invaluable chronicle of Denville’s history. Copies of the DVD are available at no cost by becoming a Centennial Member of the Denville Historical Soc i e t y. F o r more information, contact Vito Bianco at 973.879.9035 or stop by the Denville Museum on Saturdays 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Centennial events are posted on the Denville Centennial page on Facebook. !

To m a r k t h e c e ntennial a hundred y e a r s later, the Denville Historical Society was looking for a project t h a t would be b o t h i nspiring a n d e xThe Wayside Inn, Denville NJ c. 1913. Built on the site of the 1811 Denville t r a o r d iHouse, near Main Street and the Old Turnpike Road (Bloomfield Avenue), n a r y . was a dominant landmark until 1953 when it was lost to fire. Members felt that a (from Denville on page 1) film would be a fabulous way to Denville’s man-made lakes. document the Township's history Eventually growth and changes in for posterity and serve as a teaching land values led to disputes over tool for students, citizens, and town taxes with Pequannock and Hanoorganizations. Our Hometown: ver townships, so that, in 1913, Celebrating Denville’s Centennial Denville incorporated as an indefeatures images, home movies, clips pendent township. from a 1905 Edison motion picture
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Pine Brook Fire Department Centennial 
By Kathy Fisher

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Members of the Pine Brook Fire Department, 1918. by November 27 the foundation of the 26-by-40-foot firehouse was finished with the building completed by the end of the year. Lumber was furnished by John E. Collard and Roscoe DeBaun, and sawn by William Van Winkle.! ! Three carpenters, Ray Thorne, Charles Nelson and a Mr. Shelts (first name unknown) each donated a week of their labor to build the firehouse, which was then painted by Warren Hogan. Incorporation papers were filed at the County Clerk's Office in Morristown (exact date not known). To fund the new firehouse and operation of the Pine Brook Fire Department, O’Dowd, Jacob Konner, and John Lewandowski donated $25 each and other township residents donated $175. The Fire Department raised more funds by holding raffles of pigs, ponies, clocks and watches. The first equipment purchased for fire protection was two hand-pulled chemical fire extinguishers. Originally Pine Brook provided East Hanover and Parsippany with fire coverage until they organized their own fire departments in the 1920s. In the early days a bell code and zones were established to designate the location of fires. Firefighters were notified to respond to a fire by blowing a whistle (radios came into use only in 1965). Fire Department members were tasked with testing the whistles, maintaining equipment, training in the latest firefighting techniques, and researching and purchasing necessary tools. The biggest change over the years, in addition to fire fighting technology and new threats to the community’s safety, has been the large population growth in the area. On display on June 15, 2013 was the 1938 fire engine purchased by the (see Pine Brook on page 10)

enerations of family commitment to the Pine Brook Fire Department were evident at its centennial celebration on June 15, when some 950 local residents gathered on the site of the original firehouse. That was more than 23 times the number who gathered to found the department on November 13, 1913, with the precise moment officially recorded in the Pine Brook Fire Department minute book. The Boonton Times Bulletin reported that the meeting to discuss building a new firehouse was called by William Kerris, Joseph O’Dowd and Abram Van Wert. Van Wert was elected chairman and Ray Thorne secretary of the Volunteer Fire Department and O’Dowd had offered to provide the logs to support the structure. Construction was accomplished swiftly thanks to the generosity of Pine Brook residents. Van Wert donated land on Bloomfield Avenue and
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Date
July 21 September 8, 15 July 9 – 12 July 23 - 26 August 6 - 9 August 20 23 July 13

Organization
Whippany Railway Museum

Event
Train Ride Excursion Tour: Vintage Train Cars

Time and Place
1 Railroad Plaza Route 10 West and Whippany Road 1 – 4 p.m. Historic Speedwell 333 Speedwell Ave Morristown 9:30 – 1:00 p.m.

More Information
973.887.8177
whippanyrailwaymuseum.net

Historic Speedwell

Summer Camp: Travels in Time~ History Survivor Ages 7 - 10 Walking Tour: The Seeing Eye Up Close Walking Tour: Historic Main Street

973.267.3465 acornhall.org

Morris County Tourism Bureau Boonton Historical Society Dover Area Historical Society Morris County Tourism Bureau Morris County Tourism Bureau Morris County Tourism Bureau Morris County Tourism Bureau Boonton Historical Society Macculloch Hall

July 13

July 16

Program: The History of Radio

July 20

Walking Tour: Secrets and Lore of Morristown Walking Tour: Happy Birthday Denville! Walking Tour: Trial of the 19th CenturyAntoine LeBlanc Walking Tour: Thomas Nast’s Morristown (1872-1902) Walking Tour: Historic Residential District Program: Secrets of the Civil War Summer Session Ages 8-12 Program: Miss Elizabeth’s Closet” Fashion Show & Luncheon

July 27

August 3

August 10

August 10

August 12-16

September 22

Jefferson Township Historical Society Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms

October 5

Black Tie Gala: Design for Living

14 Maple Street Morristown 973.631.5151 10 a.m. morristourism.org Canalside Park Overlook 973.402.8840 Main & West Main [email protected] 10 a.m. Dover History Museum House 973.361.3525 55 W. Blackwell Street doverhistoricalsociety.com 7:30 – 9 p.m. 6 Court Street Morristown 973.631.5151 10 a.m. morristourism.org Denville Historical Society 973.631.5151 Diamond Spring Road morristourism.org 10 a.m. 6 Court Street 973.631.5151 Morristown morristourism.org 10 a.m. 6 Court Street 973.631.5151 Morristown morristourism.org 10 a.m. Canalside Park Overlook 973.402.8840 Main & West Main [email protected] 10 a.m. 45 Macculloch Avenue 973.538.2404 Morristown maccullochhall.org 9 a.m. - noon Casa Bianca 5266 Berkshire Valley Road 973.697.0258 Oak Ridge www.jthistoricalsociety.org 1:30 p.m. Mountain Lakes Club 18 Lake Drive 973.540.0311 Mountain Lakes stickleymuseum.org 6 p.m.

(from Pine Brook on page 9) department and last used in 1981. The engine, which was considered ahead of its time, pumped 750 gallons of water a minute, and is now owned by past fire chief Ron Cain Sr. Cain received an award at the centennial celebration for restoring the engine with the assistance of his son Richard. Ron Cain Jr., vice chairman of the Pine Brook Board of Fire Commissioners, a past fire chief and second-

generation department member, said that the centennial reminds the community of its roots: “I think it’s important to keep history alive and the past be remembered.” Multi-generation commitments to the Pine Brook department include the O’Dowd /Schmitt family, which has had five generations continuously serving in the Fire Department, dating back to Joseph O’Dowd, chosen the first chief in 1913. On the occasion of the centennial, the family presented a

plaque to the department depicting their family’s commitment and dedication to Pine Brook firefighting. Current Fire Chief Herb Eggers's family has four generations of service; then the Flynn and Maier families, each with a past chief, have three generations of service; the Van Winkles also have three generations of service; and the Dayermanjian, Gauweiler and Hawksworth families each have a past chief and two generations of service. !
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Save the Date – Section 106 Workshop September 20, 2013
The Morris County Heritage Commission is pleased to present a program focusing on Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. The program will be held Friday afternoon September 20, 2013 (time to be announced), at the Morris County Cultural Center, 300 Mendham Road (County Route 510) Morris Township, NJ. Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA) requires government agencies to take into account the effects of their undertakings on historic properties and afford the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) a reasonable opportunity to comment. The historic preservation review process mandated by Section 106 is outlined in regulations issued by ACHP. Revised regulations, "Protection of Historic Properties" (36 CFR Part 800), became effective August 5, 2004. This workshop is designed to address issues commonly faced by government agencies, departments and commissions as well as historic preservation organizations and historical societies. The workshop will address: " When to INITIATE Section 106 review and determine if it applies to a given project; " How to IDENTIFY historic properties in the project area; " How to ASSESS the effect of the project on identified historic properties; " How to RESOLVE adverse effects by exploring alternatives to avoid, minimize, or mitigate the effects; " When and How to involve the general public in a section 106 consultation. Program presenters are Jonathan Kinney, Senior Historic Preservation Specialist, NJ State Historic Preservation Office, and Jason Huggan, Cultural Resources Manager, Picatinny Arsenal. There is no charge to attend the program; however, advance registration is appreciated. To register for the program, please contact Peg Shultz at the Heritage Commission email at [email protected] or by telephone at 973.829.8117. !

Publication of the Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders
Thomas J. Mastrangelo, Director David Scapicchio, Deputy Director Douglas R. Cabana John Cesaro Ann F. Grossi John Krickus William “Hank” Lyon

Morris County Heritage Commission PO Box 900 Morristown, NJ 07963-0900 Phone: 973.829.8117 Fax: 973.631.5137 www.morrisheritage.net

Morris County Heritage Commission
Larry Fast, Chairman Virginia Vogt, Vice Chairman Miriam Morris, Secretary Jim Woodruff, Treasurer Epsey Farrell, Ph.D. Kathy Fisher Kathy Murphy Bonnie Lynn Nadzeika Elliott Ruga

Peg Shultz, Archivist/Acting Director

Electronic version can be viewed and downloaded from www.scribd.com/collections/2460238/ Heritage-Commission-Newsletter-Archives

For a Large Print Edition Call 973.829.8117
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