Washington Township’s extensive collection of municipal records received preservation help with a grant from the Morris County Heritage Commission and a matching grant from the Washington Township Library. The $4,470 in grant monies provided for the preservation and conservation of municipal documents along with the digitization of conserved records.  This collection can be accessed by clicking here.

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Other Online Historical Documents

In a new, ongoing project, we will be scanning booklets, newspaper articles, and other papers from the Library's filing cabinet of Washington Township historical information, and we will make these scanned documents accessible from this page of our web site.  We hope that those who are interested in Washington Township history will find this to be an invaluable resource.  Check back often to see what's new!

Some of these files -- especially the booklets -- are very large, so please be patient while they load onto your computer.

Note that to view many of the articles posted here, you need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer.  If you do not, you can go to Adobe's website to download the software for free.

Booklets

• This Is Washington Township: A Brief Historical Record, 1730-1976  (1976)
• Tercentenary Days (1964)  Note:  The cover is a reproduction.
• Washington Township Long Ago (1952)

Maps

• Map of Original Tracts of Washington Township, 1713-1750 (by T.F.Chambers)
• Washington Township, c. 1852
• Washington Township (from Beer's Atlas of Morris County, 1868)

Newspaper Articles

Historic Sites

Historic District

• "Renaissance rushes in downtown Long Valley historic district" (Observer-Tribune, July 10, 1980)
• "Long Valley residents, property owners ask about German Valley Historic District" (Observer-Tribune, November 2, 1989)

Tours of Historic Homes

• "Historical society schedules tours of vintage area homes" (Observer-Tribune, December 2, 1993)

Eagle

• "National symbol takes shape" (Observer-Tribune, July 3, 1997)
• "From an ancient oak, an eagle soars" (The Star-Ledger, August 18, 1997)
• "Symbol of liberty" (Observer-Tribune, September 11, 1997)
• "Eagle on the mountain" (Observer-Tribune, September 25, 1997)
• "The Eagle has landed and will stay on Flocktown Road" (Observer-Tribune, May 31, 2001)

Blacksmith Shop

• "Former blacksmith shop bought for offices" (Observer-Tribune, August 3, 2000)

General Store

• "The old general store" (Observer-Tribune, March 7, 1998)

Metals Disintegration Company

• "Feds probe for bombs at old WWII site" (Observer-Tribune, December 6, 2001)
• "WWII artillery sought at former plant site here" (Observer-Tribune, December 13, 2001)
• "A Morris town is front line in hunt for buried bombs" (Star-Ledger, December 20, 2001)

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