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Encyclopedia Britannica



MORRISTOWN

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 874 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOL-MOS
MORRISTOWN , a town and the county-seat of Morris county, New
Jersey
 , U.S.A., on the Whippany river, 31 M. (by rail) W. of New
York
  City. Pop. (1890) 8156; (1900) 11,267; (1910 census) 12,507. It is served by the
Delaware
 , Lackawanna & Western, the New
Jersey
  &
Pennsylvania
  and the Morristown & Erie railways. Morristown is situated on a table-land surrounded by picturesque hills. It is primarily a residential suburb of New
York
 , and has many handsome residences and a number of large estates. Near its centre is a public park, in which is a soldiers' monument (59 ft. in height). At Morris Plains, about 4 M. to the north, is a state hospital for the insane (1876).
Morristown, officially named in 1740 in honour of Lewis Morris (16711746), then
governor
  of New Jersey, and grand-father of Gouverneur Morris, was settled about 1710, under the name of West Hanover, by Puritans, who were attracted here by the presence of iron ore. From January to May 1777, and again from December 1779 to June 178o, Morris-town was occupied by the American army under Washington. Behind the court-house is the site of Fort Nonsense, built at Washington's orders, largely to keep his soldiers employed. In December 1779January 178o General Benedict
Arnold
  was tried before a court martial presided over by General Robert Howe (17321785) in the Dickerson tavern here, still
standing
 . In Morristown, at the old Speedwell ironworks (almost completely destroyed by fire in 1909), was made a part of the machinery of the " Savannah," the first steamboat that crossed the Atlantic, and here Samuel F. B. Morse and Alfred Vail completed the invention of the electric telegraph. Morristown was incorporated as a town in 1865.
See A. M. Sherman, Historic Morristown, New Jersey; The Story of its First Century (Morristown, 1905) and Julia K. Colles, Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown (Morristown, 1893).


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