Morris-Jumel Mansion

Roger Morris Park, 1,524 acres

Manhattan’s oldest surviving house, Morris-Jumel Mansion, is a monument to colonial grandeur. Built in 1765 as a summer retreat for British colonel Roger Morris and his American wife Mary Philipse, this house is the only ...

The Judge Morris Estate

The Former Home of a Delaware Attorney and Judge

Built in the 1790s, this 2½ story gray fieldstone house is the former home of Judge Hugh M. Morris. Morris was a Delaware native, respected attorney and distinguished federal judge. He purchased ...

Sam and Nola of Morris Fork

Samuel VanderMeer came here from New Jersey in 1923. “Uncle Sam” to generations of Ky. Youngsters, he became pastor of the Morris Fork Presbyterian Church in 1927, the year he married nurse Nola Pease. Missionaries, community builders. They gave a ...

Morris Canal

1824 - 1924

National Register Landmark

Inclined Plane

No. 5 West

Nearby informational marker (see photo #2):

Main Street canal store sits on the N.W. bank of the canal. Reputedly built by Moore Furan in 1836. Notice the loft openings ...

Fort Morris

Named for Gov. R.H. Morris, and built by local settlers under the supervision of James Burd after Braddock’s defeat in July, 1755. Later garrisoned by provincial troops commanded by Hugh Mercer. The fort site, long marked by the soldiers’ well, ...

Morrison's Brigade

McClernand's Division

U.S.A.

Brigadier General

John A. McClernand's Division

Colonel William R. Morrison's Brigade17th Illinois, Major Francis M. Smith

49th Illinois, Lieut. Colonel Phineas Pease

On February 13, 1862, about 10 a.m., this brigade crossed Indian Creek Valley and took a position in the woods wst ...

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Morris

Originally called South Farms, this area was settled in the 1720's as part of the frontier town of Litchfield. The land was surveyed by Captaiin John Marsh in 1715 and was purchased for fifteen pounds from the bantam ...

Morris Township Veterans Monument

Dedicated to the Members of the Armed Services,

The Sung and the Unsung,

The Known and the Unknown,

The Returned and the Remaining,

Beloved Heroes All

Who

In Latitudes and Longitudes

Near and Remote, In Times

Recent and Distant, Did

Answer The Call To Duty

Korea: June 25, 1950 ...

Morris Township 9-11 Memorial

To commemorate Morris Township Citizens Lost in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001

Marker is on Woodland Road, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Morris & Essex Line – Netcong Station

In 1854 the Morris and Essex Railroad Branch of the greater Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad acquired a 6-acre tract between the Morris Turnpike (now Ledgewood Avenue) and the Stanhope-Flanders Road (now Flanders Road) straddling its newly completed rail line, ...