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3 unusual facts about Morosi's Mountain


Edmund Hartley

On 5 June 1879 in South Africa, Surgeon Major Hartley attended the wounded under fire at the unsuccessful attack at Morosi's Mountain.

Morosi's Mountain

Impregnable on three sides and accessible only on the fourth, the 1,500-foot-high mountain was the site of a war in southern Basutoland (modern Lesotho) in1879 that preceded the Gun War, also known as the Basuto War.

Robert George Scott

On 8 April 1879 during an attack on Morosi's Mountain, South Africa, Sergeant Scott volunteered to throw time-fuse shells as hand grenades over a wall of stone barricades from behind which the enemy were bringing heavy fire to bear on the Colonial troops.


Christopher Gist

The couple had three sons, Richard (1727–1780) who was killed at the Battle of King's Mountain, Nathaniel who led Gist's Additional Continental Regiment in the Continental Army, and Thomas.

Crowder's Mountain

One of the first FM radio stations in North Carolina, Gastonia's WGNC-FM, erected a transmission tower on Crowders Mountain in the late 1940s.

Edward Coles

Coles and his young family travelled often to visit his extended family and properties in Virginia and Washington, D.C., as well as the American Bottom and later Schooley's Mountain, New Jersey.

Joshua S. Salmon

He completed an academic course at the Charlotteville Seminary (in Summit, New York) and at Schooley's Mountain Seminary (in Schooley's Mountain, New Jersey), where he afterward became an instructor.

Junie Morosi

Morosi greatly admired Cairns from having read his academic writings and she introduced Cairns to the work of Wilhelm Reich, opening his mind to the relevance of human psychology as it related to social change.

Long Valley, New Jersey

Much of Long Valley is part of Schooley's Mountain, a tall ridge that contrasts greatly with the rest of the region.

Oak Cottage

Oak Cottage is a historic home built around 1820 and located at the peak of Schooley's Mountain in the Long Valley section of Washington Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

Paul Schmidtberger

Originally from Schooley's Mountain in Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey, Schmidtberger attended the Lawrenceville School and is a graduate of Yale College and Stanford Law School.

Schooley's Mountain

Schooley's Mountain County Park, the former YMCA Camp Washington, encloses the valley of Long Valley and small Lake George on the southeastern side of the mountain.

William Ruggles

He died at Schooley's Mountain, New Jersey, on Monday, September 10, 1877, five days after his eightieth birthday.


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