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Skylands is a 1,119-acre (4.53 km 2) estate property located in Ringwood State Park in Ringwood, New Jersey, a borough in Passaic County in the state of New Jersey.The Skylands property consists of the historic Skylands Manor mansion, and the New Jersey Botanical Garden; the botanical garden is 96 acres (390,000 m 2) and it is open to the public year-round.
Sweetwater is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) [6] located within Mullica Township in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [7] The community is situated on the Mullica River about 20 miles (32 km) from Atlantic City .
The 1905 New Jersey census counted 147 dwellings in the new borough. In 1918, Robert Wood Johnson II was appointed to the Highland Park Council and became mayor in 1920. His summer house and estate was located on River Road, just north of the railroad tracks.
In 1939, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Smith acquired the Manor in a sheriff's sale. Ralph was an air traffic controller at Newark Airport . In 1941, while the Smiths were living there, the Kingsland Manor was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) program.
Served as the meeting place for the New Jersey General Assembly to ratify the Declaration of Independence and adopt the Great Seal of the State of New Jersey in 1777. Isaac Onderdonk House: Piscataway: 1750 Residence Simon Van Duyne House: Montville: c. 1750: Residence Old Dutch Parsonage: Somerville: 1751 Parsonage
New Jersey's 21st legislative district is one of 40 in the New Jersey Legislature.The district includes the Morris County communities of Chatham Borough, Chatham Township, and Long Hill Township; the Somerset County municipalities of Bernardsville, Bernards Township, Green Brook, Far Hills, Peapack and Gladstone, Warren Township and Watchung; the Union County municipalities of Berkeley Heights ...
Morristown (/ ˈ m ɒr ɪ s t aʊ n /) is a town in and the county seat of Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [20] Morristown has been called "the military capital of the American Revolution" because of its strategic role in the war for independence from Great Britain.
The New Castle Court House Museum is the center of a circle with a 12-mile radius that defines most of the border between the states of Delaware and Pennsylvania and parts of the borders between Delaware and New Jersey and Maryland. [3] It is one of the oldest courthouses in the United States and has played a role in a number of historic events.