Union Artillery at the Morris Farm

A point approximately 400 yards in front of you marks the center of a line of Union cannons positioned on the Morris Farm on March 19, 1865. These massed guns played a significant role in blunting the final Confederate attacks ...

Continental Army Encampments at Morristown

1777 1781

Life Guard Camp

On this site the Commander in Chief’s Guard was encamped from December 1779 to June 1780. The Guard was reorganized in Morristown during the first encampment in 1777 and again in 1780. Washington made his headquarters in ...

Morris County 9/11 Memorial

September 11, 2001

This memorial is dedicated to every victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks against our country.

May we never forget those who lost their lives at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, on United Airlines Flight #93 and #175, ...

Lelia Morris & Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church

Many well-known hymns, including “Sweeter As the Years Go By,” “Nearer, Still Nearer,” and “Let Jesus Come Into Your Heart,” were composed in this church by its organist, Mrs. Lelia Morris (1862-1929). Her songs have been translated into many languages ...

Inclined Plane / Morris Canal Inclined Plane No 9 West

Upper Marker:

Inclined Plane

One of the 23 Inclined Planes

used to raise and lower

boats of the Morris Canal,

built in 1831. Phillipsburg

was the western terminus.

Lower Marker:

Morris Canal

1824-1924

National Register Landmark

Inclined Plane

No 9 West

Marker is on Uniontown Road (County Road 519 at milepost 29.4).

Courtesy ...

Morris Canal Bread Lock No 7 West

Morris Canal

1824-1924

National Register Landmark

Bread Lock

No. 7 West

Warren County

Marker is on New Jersey Route 57 at milepost 4, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Morris Pesin’s Legendary Canoe Trip Which Launched Liberty State

On the foggy, drizzly morning of June 13, 1958, Morris Pesin (1911-1992) made his historic 8 minute canoe trip to the Statue of Liberty with a Jersey Journal reporter to dramatize the close proximity of the Jersey City shoreline to ...

Morris Canal

1824 - 1924

Lock 13 east a boat basin

and Clarks Coal Yard

were near here.

Morris County

Marker is at the intersection of Lathrop Avenue and Madison Street, on the right when traveling west on Lathrop Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Morris County

Founded 1739. George Washington

and Continental Army encamped

here, 1777, and 1779 – 1780. Major

iron-producing center in the

nation during the 19th century.

Marker is at the intersection of Eagle Rock Road and River Road, on the right when traveling west on Eagle Rock ...

Morris and Conn Buildings

Originally the notorious Wild West watering hole known as the “White Elephant Saloon”. Long-Hair Jim Courtwright who had been both Federal and City Marshall here was shot and killed by Gambler - King Luke Short, February 8, 1887 at the ...