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02584025 [ 5][ 8] Short Hills is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) [ 9][ 10] situated within Millburn Township, in Essex County, within the U.S. state of New Jersey, and part of the New York metropolitan area. [ 11][ 12] The community is a commuter town for residents who work in Manhattan. [ 13]
The Short Hills Park historic district is the oldest area of that unincorporated community in Millburn, Essex County, New Jersey, United States.It consists of roughly a thousand acres (4 km 2) with 125 buildings, mostly homes, in the area developed earliest by Stewart Hartshorn, whose goal was to create an "ideal town" for living close to nature and the countryside on the 1,550 acres (6.3 km 2 ...
Route 10 Route information Maintained by NJDOT Length 23.51 mi (37.84 km) Existed 1927–present Major junctions West end US 46 in Roxbury Major intersections Route 53 in Morris Plains US 202 in Morris Plains I-287 in Hanover Township East end CR 577 in West Orange Location Country United States State New Jersey Counties Morris, Essex Highway system New Jersey State Highway Routes Interstate ...
Battle of Springfield [8]. The Battle of Springfield was fought during the American Revolutionary War on June 23, 1780, in Union County, New Jersey. After the Battle of Connecticut Farms, on June 7, 1780, had foiled Lieutenant General Wilhelm, Baron von Knyphausen's expedition to attack General George Washington's army at Morristown, New Jersey, Knyphausen and Lieutenant General Sir Henry ...
Greenwood Gardens. Coordinates: 40.7442°N 74.3075°W. (Redirected from Greenwood gardens) Greenwood Gardens is a 28-acre (11 ha) formal Italianate garden located in the Short Hills section of Millburn, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. [1] It is located at 274 Old Short Hills Rd, Short Hills, NJ 07078.
The Battle of the Short Hills (also known as the Battle of Metuchen Meetinghouse and other names) was a conflict between a Continental Army force commanded by Brigadier General William Alexander ("Lord Stirling"), and an opposing British force commanded by Lieutenant General William Howe. The battle took place on June 26, 1777, at Scotch Plains ...
The history of what is now New Jersey begins at the end of the Younger Dryas, about 15,000 years ago. Native Americans moved into New town reversal of the Younger Dryas; before then an ice sheet hundreds of feet thick had made the area of northern New Jersey uninhabitable. European contact began with the exploration of the Jersey Shore by ...
Short Hills station of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, c. 1895. The presence of a railroad station at the present site dates from 1879, when Stewart Hartshorn, the developer of what became the Short Hills neighborhood of Millburn, built a station along the Morris and Essex Railroad line. He built the station at his own expense at ...