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”