Tag: Morris County
This Week in Chester History
In 1979, Rutgers University offered Willowwood Arboretum to the Morris County Parks Commission on grounds that it was neither used by a great number of students nor did the institution possess the funds necessary to undertake more extensive research and maintenance programed planned for the facility. The 130 acre preserve, located in Chester and Bedminster Townships on Longview Road, was originally the property of Henry and Robert Tubbs, who purchased the land in 1908.
This Week in Chester History
In 1979, the Observer-Tribune reported on a small earthquake that affected parts of Morris, Somerset, and Hunterdon counties. The earthquake registered a 3.1 on the Nuttli scale, a seismic scale used to measure earthquakes that occur in the eastern and central United States. Earthquake analyst Mary Golisano from Columbia University reassured the normalcy of the event and encouraged affected residents to write her their detailed observations.
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In 1937, Morris County was hit harder by Dutch Elm disease than anywhere else in the United States, said the Mendham-Chester Tribune. Over the previous three years, more than 2,500 elm trees were cut down in the area. The N.J. Department of Agriculture sought to fight the blight by hiring Civilian Conservation Corps workers and state specialists to inspect more than 1 million trees.
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The Mendham-Chester Tribune alerted readers to a substantial WPA project occurring in Morris County. More than 2,500 miles of roads, highways, and other public thoroughfares throughout the county would be verified and indexed according to the Old Road Returns Survey. The newspaper explained, “a road return is a formal report certifying the establishment or elimination of any portion of a public route… It serves as the original deed of the road, and is filed as the basis of public title.”
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In 1956, the Chester Rotarians began an outreach effort to address the high number of fatalities on Morris County roads. Drunken driving, speed, and carelessness were cited as the primary factors involved. Source: The Mendham-Chester Tribune
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In 1955, Chief Jacob T. Lewis of the Morris County Civil Defense and Disaster Control announced there would be a five-company relay pumping drill in the south west section of Morris county. The Chester Volunteer Fire Company’s house was named the rendezvous point. The fire companies of Morris County had had more training in relay pumping than any similar area in the United States. Source: The Mendham-Chester Tribune.
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In 1957, Patricia Cross of Pleasant Hill Road became Morris County’s first polio patient of the year. She previously had received two Salk anti-polio vaccine shots, but was diagnosed with paralytic polio at Morristown Memorial Hospital. In 1956, by this time last year, the county already had three cases. Source: The Mendham-Chester Tribune.
