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19 unusual facts about Morristown


Bartholomew Gill

McGarrity died at the age of 58 on 4 July 2002 from injuries sustained in a fall at his Morristown, New Jersey home.

Bo Ratliff

They are scheduled to appear at the Murat Temple during the Christmas time for the Murat Shriner's RV Club and for the Murat Shriner's club in Morristown, Indiana.

Covanta Energy

It is a subsidiary of Covanta Holding Corporation, which is located in Morristown, New Jersey.

David Brookwell

David Brookwell (born on February 6, 1961 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American television and film producer, writer and director.

David Donohue

David Donohue (born January 5, 1967 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American race car driver currently active in the Grand-Am's Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype class for Action Express.

Eli Whitney Debevoise II

Eli Whitney Debevoise II, commonly known as “Whitney Debevoise,” was born in Morristown, New Jersey in 1953 and graduated from the St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. in 1970.

Eugene Meyer

Both men have buildings named after them at Honeywell’s headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey.

Everett Mall

During the fall of 2000, the Everett Mall was placed into receivership by the Snohomish County Superior Court after finding that its owners, Titanic Associates of Morristown, New Jersey had defaulted on a loan.

Henry Lee Higginson

In 1891, Higginson established the Morristown School for young men, now the Morristown-Beard School, declining to be named as the school's founder.

Jamboree in the Hills

Jamboree in the Hills (often abbreviated as JITH or "Jambo") began as a two-day outdoor music festival in July 1977 and was held at Brush Run Park near Morristown, Ohio.

Jimmy Hawkins

He produced a Walt Disney film, Love Leads the Way, based on the first seeing-eye dog trained in Morristown, New Jersey.

Justin Fox

Justin Fox (born January 28, 1964) is an American financial journalist, commentator, and writer born in Morristown, New Jersey.

Louis Berger Group

The Louis Berger Group is an American architectural and engineering design firm based in Morristown, New Jersey.

Luther Kountze

Luther Kountze (October 29, 1841 – April 17, 1918) was an American banker, responsible for helping the city of Denver, Colorado in a time of need and leaving a philanthropic legacy in Morristown, New Jersey.

Mary Maurice

Mary Maurice (15 November 1844, Morristown, Ohio – 30 April 1918, Port Carbon, Pennsylvania) was an American actress, who appeared 139 films between 1909 and 1918.

Ryan Scott Weber

Ryan Scott Weber was born on February 24, 1980, in Morristown, New Jersey.

Schindler Group

Currently, Schindler Elevator Corporation, the United States operations of Schindler Group, is based in Morristown, New Jersey.

Shadow Patriots

"The prison ship martyrs," as they're called, are part of this story, as well as intrigue in Philadelphia, the battles of Brooklyn, Monmouth, and Stony Point, the betrayal of West Point, and the hardships of the winter encampments at Valley Forge and Morristown.

Ulmus americana 'Delaware'

The American Elm Ulmus americana cultivar 'Delaware' was originally selected (as tree number 218) from 35,000 seedlings inoculated with the Dutch elm disease fungus in USDA trials at Morristown, New Jersey.


27th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment

It was recruited from various towns within Morris County, New Jersey and Sussex County, New Jersey, and was mustered into Federal service in September 3, 1862, in Newark, except Company G (Village of Boonton, then part of Pequannock Township) and Company I (Village of Morristown, Morris Township).

9th Connecticut Regiment

That June, the regiment was involved in the Battle of Springfield, in which a British attempt to penetrated from New York City to the Continental Army camp at Morristown was repulsed.

Eastern Maine Railway

Maine Eastern Railroad, a U.S. subsidiary of the Morristown and Erie Railway

Edward Francis Cavanagh, Jr.

He died in 1986 at Morristown Memorial Hospital in Morristown, New Jersey.

Edward Thebaud

Upon the death of his father-in-law in 1834, Thebaud moved to New York, having purchased a mansion known as LeRoy Place in Bleecker Street, where he lived for many years, though he retained a country seat at Morristown.

George Tilghman

Starting in 1929, Morristown School and Kent School competed for the Ranger Trophy donated by Colonel John S. Hammond, the first president of the Rangers.

Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge

Eventually, while in New Jersey, they resided on separate, but abutting, country estates: Giralda Farms and Hartley Farms hers fronting the main route from Madison to Morristown and extending to his that faced south and fronted on Spring Valley Road in New Vernon.

Hobart Gap

During the American Revolutionary War, Hessian General Baron Wilhelm von Knyphausen attempted to seize the Hobart Gap, now crossed by present-day Route 24, in order to attack the American headquarters in Morristown for the British.

James J. Barry, Jr.

Following graduation from college, James established the ROBO Car Wash (Morris County Car Wash) in Morristown, New Jersey and Caswell-Massey of Morristown.

James M. Howard, Jr.

He graduated from Morristown School (now Morristown-Beard School) in 1938 and then completed a post-graduate year at All Saints School in Bloxham, England.

John Cleves Symmes

Another daughter Anna Tuthill Symmes was born at her father's estate Solitude, just outside Morristown, New Jersey (present day Wheatsheaf Farms subdivision off Sussex Avenue in Morris Township, New Jersey ) before his wife died in 1776.

Juan de Miralles

Juan de Miralles (Petrel, Spain, 1713 - Morristown, New Jersey, April 30, 1780) was a Spanish arms dealer and Messenger at the Continental Congress.

Morristown National Historical Park

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.

Rockaway Townsquare

The Comet I cars were equipped with low-doors and since most trains might have been sent via the Morristown Line providing for management concerns about diesel noise and exhaust from the U34CH locomotives near the mall.

Stephen Vail

Stephen Vail (1780–1864) was a founding partner of the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia and the creator of the Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey.

Stone Windmill

Stone Windmill (Morristown, New York), also known as McConnell's Windmill, listed as "Stone Windmill" in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Telcordia Technologies

The company originally established its headquarters in Livingston with dedication by New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean in 1985, but moved its headquarters to Morristown a decade later.

Thomas Nast Home

The Thomas Nast Home, also known as Villa Fontana, was the home of Thomas Nast in Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

Urban A. Woodbury

He was educated in the public schools of Morristown and Morrisville, and graduated from the medical department of the University of Vermont in 1859, but his career as a doctor was short-lived due to the advent of the Civil War.

Van Campen's Inn

It was located at the terminus of Jonathan Hampton's Military Road built in 1755-1756 from the colony's capital Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth, New Jersey) to Morristown to supply the colony's fortifications in the Minisink.

WGU-20

Besides the Maryland site, candidate sites for distribution stations were Maynard, Massachusetts; Mount Joy, Pennsylvania; Gray, Maine; Morristown, Tennessee; Starke, Florida or Chiefland, Florida; Mazomanie, Wisconsin; Carthage, Texas, Marshal, Texas or Seagoville, Texas; Alcova, Wyoming or Riverton, Wyoming; Mendota, California or Selma, California; Winslow, Arizona; Hermiston, Oregon; and Wallula, Washington.