Morristown National Historical Park

































































Morristown National Historical Park
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historical Park

New Jersey Register of Historic Places



Ford Mansion Morristown NHP NJ2.jpg
Ford Mansion, Morristown




Morristown National Historical Park is located in Morris County, New Jersey
Morristown National Historical Park



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Morristown National Historical Park is located in New Jersey
Morristown National Historical Park



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Morristown National Historical Park is located in the United States
Morristown National Historical Park



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Location In and around Morristown, New Jersey
Coordinates
40°47′47″N 74°28′0″W / 40.79639°N 74.46667°W / 40.79639; -74.46667Coordinates: 40°47′47″N 74°28′0″W / 40.79639°N 74.46667°W / 40.79639; -74.46667
Area 1,711 acres (6.92 km2)
Built 1744
Architectural style Georgian, Cape Cod
Visitation 222,395 (2011)
Website Morristown National Historical Park
NRHP reference #
66000053[1]
NJRHP # 3381[2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP October 15, 1966
Designated NHP March 2, 1933
Designated NJRHP May 27, 1971

Morristown National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park, headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, consisting of four sites important during the American Revolutionary War: Jockey Hollow, the Ford Mansion, Fort Nonsense and the New Jersey Brigade Encampment site.


The sites are located in Morristown and Harding Township, both in Morris County, and in Bernardsville in Somerset County.


With its establishment in March 1933, Morristown became the country's first National Historical Park.




Contents






  • 1 Sites


  • 2 Park history


  • 3 See also


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





Sites


Jockey Hollow, a few miles south of Morristown along Route 202 in Harding Twp., was the site of a Continental Army encampment. It was from here that the entire Pennsylvania contingent mutinied and later, 200 New Jersey soldiers attempted to emulate them.[3]




Reconstructed troop cabins.


Fort Nonsense occupied a high hilltop overlooking Morristown, and is believed to have been the site of a signal fire, along with earthworks.


The Ford Mansion, in Morristown proper, was the site of the "hard winter" (December 1779 – May 1780) quarters of George Washington and the Continental Army. That winter remains the coldest on record for New Jersey. Theodosia Ford, widow of Jacob Ford Jr., and her four children shared their household with Washington, his staff, including Alexander Hamilton, along with their servants and sometimes, their family members. Martha Washington traveled to Morristown to spend the winter with her husband.


Washington's Headquarters Museum, the adjacent museum is open to the public Wednesday thru Sunday from September–June and seven days a week from July- August from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM. The museum has three exhibit rooms and a sales area. A video production "Morristown: Where America Survived" (New Jersey Network/2009) is shown. The Ford Mansion is shown only by guided tour which begin in the Museum.The Museum hosted one of the events of the CelebrateHAMILTON 2015 program: hosted by the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society, a talk by Author and Historian Michael E. Newton - "Hamilton's Revolutionary War Services",[4] who also presented his book "Alexander Hamilton: The Formative Years."[5] at the same event.


The New Jersey Brigade Encampment Site is located south of Jockey Hollow, mostly in Bernardsville, Somerset County. It was used by about 1,300 soldiers during the winter of 1779–80.[6]



Park history


In April 1932, the National Park Service (NPS) published a report recommending that the site of the Continental Army's winter encampments in 1776-77 and 1779-80 become a "Federal Historical Reserve"; the report included two sites: Jockey Hollow and the Ford Mansion.[7]


In January 1933, a conference consisting of representatives of the NPS, the Secretary of the Interior, and civic and business leaders from the Morris County area, drafted a bill supporting the concept of a national historical park,[7] with "the rank and dignity equal to the scenic program in the West."[8]


The bill for creating the Morristown National Historical Park was submitted in mid-January (H.R. 14302; S. 5469), with the support of Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur, who called it "the most important park project before this department at the present time."[7]


In March 1933, in the last days of Herbert Hoover's presidency, the 72nd Congress established Morristown as the country's first National Historical Park.[7]



See also



  • National Register of Historic Places listings in Morris County, New Jersey


  • Media related to Morristown National Historical Park at Wikimedia Commons



References





  1. ^ National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Morris County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection – Historic Preservation Office. October 25, 2010. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 4, 2011. Retrieved November 8, 2010.


  3. ^ Flexner, James Thomas (April 1984). Washington The Indispensable Man: 154. Missing or empty |title= (help)


  4. ^ Newton, Michael E. "Alexander Hamilton's Revolutionary War Service". www.thepathtotyranny.wodpress.com.


  5. ^ Newton, Michael E. (July 1, 2015). Alexander Hamilton: The Formative Years (Hardcover ed.). Eleftheria Publishing. p. 774. ISBN 0982604033.


  6. ^ "NRHP Nomination: Morristown National Historical Park". National Park Service. October 15, 1966.
    "Accompanying 21 photos".


  7. ^ abcd "Expansion of the National Park Service in the 1930s". Administrative History. National Park Service. March 14, 2000. Retrieved 2013-12-24.


  8. ^ Hosmer, Preservation Comes of Age, I: 516-21, and Interview of Verne E. Chatelain by Charles B. Hosmer, Jr., December 17, 1971 (Manuscript on file at Harpers Ferry Center)




External links



  • National Park Service: Morristown National Historical Park

  • NPS Museum Exhibit: Morristown

  • NJ Skylands: Morristown National Historical Park

  • StateParks: Morristown National Historical Park

  • NY-NJTC: Morristown National Historical Park Trail Details and Info












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