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Chatham Borough, New Jersey

January 29, 2023

This article is about a borough. For an adjacent township, see Chatham Township, New Jersey. For more information about their shared services, including school and library systems, see Chatham, New Jersey.

Chatham is a borough in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 9,212,[9][10] an increase of 250 (+2.8%) from the 2010 census count of 8,962,[19][20][21] which in turn reflected an increase of 502 (+5.9%) from the 8,460 counted in the 2000 census.[22]

Chatham, New Jersey
Borough
Borough of Chatham
Main Street, Downtown Chatham
Location in Morris County and the state of New Jersey.
Census Bureau map of Chatham, New Jersey
Chatham
Location in Morris County
Chatham
Location in New Jersey
Chatham
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 40°44′26″N 74°23′04″W / 40.740686°N 74.38448°W / 40.740686; -74.38448Coordinates: 40°44′26″N 74°23′04″W / 40.740686°N 74.38448°W / 40.740686; -74.38448[1][2]
Country United States
State New Jersey
County Morris
Settled1710 (as a colonial village)
IncorporatedAugust 19, 1892 (as village)
ReincorporatedMarch 1, 1897 (as borough)
Named forWilliam Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Government
[6]
 • TypeBorough
 • BodyBorough Council
 • MayorThaddeus Kobylarz (D, term ends December 31, 2023)[3][4]
 • AdministratorSteven W. Williams [5]
 • Municipal clerkVanessa Nienhouse [5]
Area
[7]
 • Total2.38 sq mi (6.16 km2)
 • Land2.34 sq mi (6.07 km2)
 • Water0.04 sq mi (0.09 km2)  1.51%
 • Rank382nd of 565 in state
32nd of 39 in county[1]
Elevation
[8]
233 ft (71 m)
Population
 (2020)[9][10]
 • Total9,212
 • Estimate 
(2021)[9][11]
9,253
 • Rank256th of 566 in state
21st of 39 in county[12]
 • Density3,900/sq mi (1,500/km2)
  • Rank166th of 566 in state
5th of 39 in county[12]
Time zoneUTC−05:00 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC−04:00 (Eastern (EDT))
ZIP Code
07928[13][14]
Area code(s)973[15]
FIPS code34-12100[1][16][17]
GNIS feature ID0885182[1][18]
Websitewww.chathamborough.org

The area that is Chatham has been inhabited by humans for thousands of years. During historic times, Europeans began trading with the Native Americans who farmed, fished, and hunted in the area when it was claimed as part of New Netherlands. The community that now is Chatham was first settled by Europeans in 1710 within Morris Township, in what was then the English Province of New Jersey. The community was settled because the site already was on the path of a well-worn Native American trail, the location of an important crossing of the Passaic River, and being close to a gap in the Watchung Mountains. The residents of the English community changed its name from John Day's Bridge to Chatham, New Jersey in 1773.[23]

Chatham's residents were active participants in the American Revolutionary War, which ended in 1783. Chatham Township was formed as a local government in the new state of New Jersey on February 12, 1806, taking its name from this pre-revolutionary village. Initial local government forms were limited while the new state government evolved. The new township governed the village of Chatham that lay within the present-day borough boundaries, along with several other pre-revolutionary, colonial villages and large areas of unsettled lands connecting or adjacent to them. On August 19, 1892, Chatham adopted a new village form of government when it became allowed within townships in the state after the revolution. Shortly thereafter, once it was allowed, the village of Chatham reincorporated for governance as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 1, 1897, returning to complete independence from the surrounding Chatham Township.[24][25]

An early railroad located along the Morris and Essex Lines that had become well established by the start of the Civil War as one of America's first commuter railroads, had a stop at Chatham, which attracted many from nearby Manhattan, 20 miles to the east.[26] It remains a commuter town for residents who work in New York City. Today, Chatham is a pedestrian-friendly community that covers less than 2.5 square miles (6.5 km2), including a central business district and railroad station within approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) from its farthest boundary. The borough is situated in southeastern Morris County bordering both Essex and Union counties along the Passaic River. Northeast of the borough is the upscale Mall at Short Hills located in the Short Hills section of Millburn.

In July 2005, CNN/Money and Money magazine ranked Chatham ninth on its annual list of the 100 Best Places to Live in the United States.[27] New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Chatham as its 25th best place to live in its 2008 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey.[28] In 2012, Forbes.com listed Chatham as 375th in its listing of "America's Most Expensive ZIP Codes", with a median home price of $776,703.[29]

The borough has been ranked as one of the state's highest-income communities. In March 2018, Bloomberg ranked Chatham as the 64th highest-income place in the United States and as having the 8th-highest income in New Jersey.[30] In the 2013–2017 ACS, the borough had a median household income of $163,026, ranking 16th in the state.[31][32] The 2014–2018 ACS showed a median household income of $169,524 in the borough versus $111,316 in the county and $79,363 statewide.[33][34][35]

History

Occupied for thousands of years by Native Americans, this land was overseen by clans of the Minsi and Lenni Lenape, who farmed, fished, and hunted upon it. They were organized into a matrilineal, agricultural, and mobile hunting society sustained with fixed, but not permanent, settlements in their clan territories. Villages were established and relocated as the clans farmed new sections of the land when soil fertility lessened and moved among their fishing and hunting grounds.

In 1498, John Cabot explored this portion of the New World. The area was claimed as a part of the Dutch New Netherland province, where active trading in furs took advantage of the natural pass west, but, the Lenape prevented permanent settlement beyond what is now Jersey City. Although rapid exhaustion of the local beaver population soon turned the Dutch interests much farther north, contention existed between the Dutch and the British over the rights to this land and battles ensued. Passing to the rule of the British as the Province of New Jersey upon the fall of New Amsterdam in 1664, and becoming one of its original thirteen colonies, marks the beginning of permanent European settlements on this land.

The land that would become Chatham was part of the Province of East Jersey; the Indian rights to Chatham were purchased in 1680 from members of the Minsi and Lenni Lenape tribes. They spoke an Algonquian language. They hunted and fished in the area and farmed on the lands of their settlements. The area was well connected with established paths among their settlements, to and from bountiful resources, and to neighboring settlements. Safe passageways through the valleys, marshes, swamps, and mountains of this portion of the Watchung Mountains connected the area that would become Chatham with other settlements in the area. Except for highways built since the 1970s and a shunpike built to avoid tolls on the roads connecting the colonial settlements of Chatham and Bottle Hill, the roads of the area follow those time proven, long trodden trails made by the native tribes. Main Street rises from a shallow crossing of the Passaic River and, after traveling through what became the settlements of Chatham and Bottle Hill (which became Madison), the road follows a westward path that leads to the top of the plateau on which Morristown was founded.

In 1680, the British first purchased this Lenape land upon which John Day made the first European settlement in 1710. He chose to settle upon the western bank of the Fishawack Crossing (of the Passaic River) on the traditional Lenape Minisink Trail. Chatham was in the area delineated as Morris Township by the English. The landing at that location was the best place to ford the river and always had been used by the Lenape on their route to the Hudson River and south from their hunting grounds in what is now Sussex County. That traditional part of the Great Trail would become Route 24, leading to Madison, Morristown, Mendham, and Chester. It became known as Main Street in Chatham.

 
The Old Mill at Chatham, N. J. depicted on a 1911 postcard

Before long, the village became known as John Day's Bridge because of a bridge he built across the river at the shallow landing. By 1750, the village had a blacksmith shop as well as a flour mill, a grist mill, and a lumber mill.

In 1773, the village was renamed to "Chatham" to honor a member of the British Parliament, William Pitt, the first Earl of Chatham, who was an outspoken advocate of the rights of the colonists in America.[23][36][37]

New Jersey was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolutionary War. The New Jersey Constitution of 1776 was passed on July 2, 1776, two days before the Second Continental Congress declared American Independence from Great Britain. It was an act of the New Jersey Provincial Congress, which made itself into the state Legislature. To reassure neutrals, it provided that it would become void if the state of New Jersey reached reconciliation with Great Britain.

The citizens of Chatham were active participants in the Revolutionary War and nearby Morristown became the military center of the revolution. George Washington twice established his winter headquarters in Morristown and revolutionary troops were active regularly in the entire area. The Lenape assisted the colonists, supplying the revolutionary army with warriors and scouts in exchange for food supplies and the promise of a role at the head of a future Native American state. The Treaty of Easton signed by the Lenape and the British in 1766 had required that the Lenape move to Pennsylvania. Wanting to recoup rights lost thereby to the British, the Lenape were the first tribe to enter into a treaty with the emerging government of the United States.[38] In 1781, General Rochambeau built a large bakery operation at Chatham as a subterfuge that could be interpreted as his plan to stay in Chatham for an extended amount of time, in order to distract from the fact that his troops were marching south toward Yorktown.[39]

The Watchung mountain range was a strategic asset in the war, acting as a natural barrier to the British troops and providing a vantage point for Washington to monitor their troop movements. The Minisink Trail and the village bridge provided a route for essential supplies across the river and through the mountain range. The Hobart Gap was vital as the only pass through the Watchung Mountains.[40]

Washington wrote 17 letters while he stayed at a homestead in Chatham. The community was the site of several skirmishes, as residents and the rebel army held off British advances, preventing them from attacking Washington's supplies at Morristown.

In 1779, a printing press was established in the village of Chatham by Shepard Kollock. From his workshop, he published books,[41] pamphlets, and the New Jersey Journal (the third newspaper published in New Jersey)[42] conducting lively debates about the efforts for independence and boosting the morale of the troops and their families with information derived directly from Washington's headquarters in nearby Morristown. Kollock's newspaper was published until 1992 as the Elizabeth Daily Journal (having relocated to there in 1787) and was the fourth oldest newspaper published continuously in the United States.[43]

After the Revolutionary War was over in 1783, establishment of new forms of government began. On February 12, 1806, the village of Chatham became part of Chatham Township with a township form of government that shared the village's name and included several other area communities and a large amount of unsettled land. However, "[i]n 1892 Chatham Village found itself at odds with the rest of the township. Although village residents paid 40 percent of the township taxes, they got only 7 percent of the receipts in services. The village had to raise its own money to install kerosene street lamps and its roads were in poor repair. As a result, the village voted on August 9, 1892, to secede from governance by the township."[23]

Ten days later, on August 19, 1892, the citizens of Chatham reincorporated with another type of village government then offered as an alternative within townships by the new state. The evolving state regulations regarding governance structure soon began to offer a borough form for governance. Chatham adopted that new government form and the village reincorporated for governance as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 1, 1897 with complete independence from Chatham Township.[24]

Most of the colonial settlements that had been part of Chatham Township abandoned its governance as soon as new forms of government became available to them during this evolution of new state regulations. Green Village being the exception, each of the settlements withdrew from governance by the township and Chatham Township was left to govern mostly unsettled lands.

In 1910, the borough boundaries expanded when Chatham acquired a slice of Florham Park.[24] The local form of government and the boundaries of the borough have remained the same since that acquisition, encompassing about 2.4 square miles (6.2 km2).

Architecture

 
Historic Crane House c. 1937

At 2.4 square miles (6.2 km2) in area, Chatham was mostly built out well before World War II, retaining homes that sometimes display the dates of their construction during the colonial and revolutionary times. Two houses, now privately owned, survive from colonial times; the Paul Day House, at 24 Kings Road, and the Nathaniel Bonnell House, at 34 Watchung Avenue.[23]

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough had a total area of 2.38 square miles (6.17 km2), including 2.35 square miles (6.08 km2) of land and 0.04 square miles (0.09 km2) of water (1.51%).[1][2][1][2]

Unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or completely within the borough include Stanley.[44]

The borough is located 20 miles (32 km) west of New York City on the eastern edge of Morris County. Chatham's neighboring communities are Summit to the southeast located in Union County, Millburn (and its Short Hills neighborhood) in Essex County to the northeast, while communities also located in Morris County include Chatham Township to the west, and Madison and Florham Park to the north.[45][46][47]

The Passaic River, which rises at Millington Gorge in Long Hill Township and defines the Great Swamp, flows north along the eastern boundary of Chatham.[48] A good crossing location, identified by Native Americans to early European settlers, figured significantly in the colonial history of the community. Fairmount Avenue ascends Long Hill perpendicularly from Main Street in the contemporary center of town to the highest elevation of the town among the Watchung Mountains. From there, one may see the lights of New York beyond the crest of the ridge hills of Summit and Short Hills. Water from artesian wells is stored at its crest to provide the drinking water for the community.

A portion of the Great Swamp extends to the southern boundary of Chatham and other marshes surround the community to the north and northwest. The marshes and brooks in the area contain water draining from the plateau of Morristown and many points to the north and west. All are remnants of a massive lake that covered the area following the retreat of the Wisconsin glacier of the last Ice age. Residents of Chatham were among those in late 1959 who formed the Jersey Jetport Site Association and instigated preservation of the Great Swamp when the New York Port Authority sought to turn it into a massive regional airport.[49][50][51] They later were joined by the North American Wildlife Foundation that completed acquisition of enough of the Great Swamp to protect the massive natural resource as a federal park.

The Great Swamp is a major watershed and a significant resting point for migratory birds. The core of the swamp was purchased with the help of Geraldine R. Dodge and Marcellus Hartley Dodge Sr. Several other members of the Jersey Jetport Site Association, including two residents of Chatham, Kafi Benz and Esty Weiss, who were students at the nearby campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University, began to infiltrate meetings of the administration of Austin Joseph Tobin, the executive director of the Port Authority. They attended meetings scheduled quietly to garner the support of union workers. Once inside the meetings, they provided pamphlets in opposition to the project, which infuriated the Port Authority administration. Eventually, other organizations formed to join the opposition to the plans for the airport and finally, a majority of the swamp was assembled to be donated to the federal government to become a National Wildlife Refuge. Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior under President John F. Kennedy, lent his support to the local efforts to save the swamp while he served as U.S. Representative from Arizona, making recommendations to the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration to also lend their support. On November 3, 1960, the legislation creating the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was passed by an act of the United States Congress.[52][53]

Just northeast of the borough is the upscale Mall at Short Hills located in the Short Hills section of Millburn.

Climate

Chatham has a humid continental climate and is slightly more variant (lows are colder, highs are warmer) than its neighbor 20 miles (32 km) east: New York City.

Climate data for Chatham (07928, includes Chatham (borough) and Chatham Township)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °F (°C) 73
(23) 		82
(28) 		89
(32) 		96
(36) 		97
(36) 		103
(39) 		107
(42) 		104
(40) 		99
(37) 		93
(34) 		84
(29) 		76
(24) 		107
(42)
Average high °F (°C) 39
(4) 		42
(6) 		51
(11) 		62
(17) 		73
(23) 		82
(28) 		86
(30) 		85
(29) 		78
(26) 		66
(19) 		55
(13) 		44
(7) 		64
(18)
Average low °F (°C) 18
(−8) 		20
(−7) 		28
(−2) 		38
(3) 		47
(8) 		57
(14) 		63
(17) 		61
(16) 		53
(12) 		40
(4) 		32
(0) 		24
(−4) 		40
(4)
Record low °F (°C) −25
(−32) 		−26
(−32) 		−6
(−21) 		12
(−11) 		25
(−4) 		31
(−1) 		41
(5) 		35
(2) 		26
(−3) 		13
(−11) 		−5
(−21) 		— −26
(−32)
Average precipitation inches (mm) 3.54
(90) 		2.91
(74) 		4.20
(107) 		4.29
(109) 		4.38
(111) 		4.70
(119) 		4.73
(120) 		4.42
(112) 		4.89
(124) 		4.65
(118) 		4.06
(103) 		4.13
(105) 		50.90
(1,293)
Source: [54]

Demographics

Historical population
Census Pop. %±
1880738—
18907805.7%
19001,36174.5%
19101,87437.7%
19202,42129.2%
19303,86959.8%
19404,88826.3%
19507,39151.2%
19609,51728.8%
19709,5660.5%
19808,537−10.8%
19908,007−6.2%
20008,4605.7%
20108,9625.9%
20209,2122.8%
2021 (est.)9,253[11]0.4%
Population sources:
1880–1890[55] 1890–1920[56]
1890–1910[57] 1910–1930[58]
1900–1990[59] 2000[60][61]
2010[19][20][21] 2020[9][10]

2010 census

The 2010 United States census counted 8,962 people, 3,073 households, and 2,397 families in the borough. The population density was 3,776.1 per square mile (1,458.0/km2). There were 3,210 housing units at an average density of 1,352.5 per square mile (522.2/km2). The racial makeup was 91.13% (8,167) White, 0.99% (89) Black or African American, 0.20% (18) Native American, 4.85% (435) Asian, 0.00% (0) Pacific Islander, 1.00% (90) from other races, and 1.82% (163) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.10% (457) of the population.[19]

Of the 3,073 households, 48.1% had children under the age of 18; 68.9% were married couples living together; 7.0% had a female householder with no husband present and 22.0% were non-families. Of all households, 18.6% were made up of individuals and 7.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.91 and the average family size was 3.37.[19]

33.5% of the population were under the age of 18, 3.9% from 18 to 24, 25.8% from 25 to 44, 26.7% from 45 to 64, and 10.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38.0 years. For every 100 females, the population had 94.1 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 89.9 males.[19]

The Census Bureau's 2006–2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income was $143,281 (with a margin of error of +/− $14,294) and the median family income was $164,805 (+/− $12,245). Males had a median income of $127,906 (+/− $13,208) versus $59,271 (+/− $14,990) for females. The per capita income for the borough was $64,950 (+/− $5,936). About 0.4% of families and 1.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 0.3% of those under age 18 and 7.5% of those age 65 or over.[62]

Based on data from the 2006–2010 American Community Survey, the borough had a per capita income of $64,950 (ranked 37th in the state), compared to per capita income in Morris County of $47,342 and statewide of $34,858.[63]

2000 census

As of the 2000 United States census[16] there were 8,460 people, 3,159 households, and 2,385 families. The population density was 3,505.9 people per square mile (1,355.4/km2). There were 3,232 housing units at an average density of 1,339.4 per square mile (517.8/km2). The racial makeup of was 95.79% White, 0.14% African American, 0.06% Native American, 2.81% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.50% from other races, and 0.69% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.64% of the population.[60][61]

There were 3,159 households, out of which 39.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.6% were married couples living together, 6.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.5% were non-families. 21.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.67 and the average family size was 3.14.[60][61]

The population was spread out, with 28.3% under the age of 18, 3.8% from 18 to 24, 33.5% from 25 to 44, 21.4% from 45 to 64, and 13.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.0 males.[60][61]

The median income for a household was $101,991, and the median income for a family was $119,635. Males had a median income of $81,543 versus $59,063 for females. The per capita income was $53,027. About 1.7% of families and 2.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.0% of those under age 18 and 3.3% of those age 65 or over.[60][61]

Government

 
Chatham municipal government building
 
Chatham Firehouse Plaza

From 1614, the area was governed by the Dutch as part of New Netherland. In 1664, it came under governance by the British within the Province of New Jersey, during which a permanent European settlement was established in 1710 that changed its name to Chatham in 1773.

Chatham has adopted different forms of local government throughout its existence. Under British colonial rule, a village form of government was adopted. After the American Revolutionary War, the community became part of Chatham Township, which was founded by new state of New Jersey in 1806 as it was beginning to determine governmental forms. That township also included several other settlements and a great deal of unsettled lands. Unhappy with that governance, Chatham seceded from the township in 1892 and returned to a village government. When the borough form of government was offered by the state, Chatham adopted that form of government by a reincorporation in 1897, and that governmental form has been used ever since.[24]

Local government

Further information: Mayor of Chatham Borough, New Jersey

Having adopted several different forms of government since its settlement in 1710, Chatham adopted the newly allowed borough form of New Jersey municipal government during a reincorporation in 1897. The borough form of government is now used in 218 municipalities (of the 564) statewide, making it the most common form of government in New Jersey.[64] The governing body is comprised of the mayor and the borough council, with all positions elected at-large on a partisan basis as part of the November general election. A mayor is elected directly by the voters to a four-year term of office. The borough council is comprised of six members elected to serve three-year terms on a staggered basis, with two seats coming up for election each year in a three-year cycle.[6] The borough form of government used by Chatham is a "weak mayor / strong council" government in which council members act as the legislative body with the mayor presiding at meetings and voting only in the event of a tie. The mayor can veto ordinances subject to an override by a two-thirds majority vote of the council. The mayor makes committee and liaison assignments for council members, and most appointments are made by the mayor with the advice and consent of the council.[65][66]

As of 2023, the Mayor is Democrat Thaddeus Kobylarz, whose term of office ends December 31, 2023. Members of the borough council are Council President Carolyn Dempsey (D, 2024), Karen Koronkiewicz (D, 2025), Jocelyn Mathiasen (D, 2024), Leonard Resto (D, 2023), Irene Treloar (D, 2025), and Frank Truilo (D, 2023).[3][67][68][69][70][71][72]

Federal, state, and county representation

The borough is located in the 11th Congressional District[73] and is part of the 21st state legislative district of New Jersey.[20][74][75] Prior to the 2011 reapportionment following the 2010 Census, the borough had been in the 26th state legislative district.[76]

For the 118th United States Congress, New Jersey's Eleventh Congressional District is represented by Mikie Sherrill (D, Montclair).[77] New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Democrats Cory Booker (Newark, term ends 2027)[78] and Bob Menendez (Harrison, term ends 2025).[79][80]

For the 2022–2023 session, the 21st Legislative District of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Jon Bramnick (R, Westfield) and in the General Assembly by Michele Matsikoudis (R, New Providence) and Nancy Munoz (R, Summit).[81]

Morris County is governed by a Board of County Commissioners comprised of seven members who are elected at-large in partisan elections to three-year terms on a staggered basis, with either one or three seats up for election each year as part of the November general election.[82] Actual day-to-day operation of departments is supervised by County Administrator, John Bonanni.[83]: 8  As of 2022, Morris County's Commissioners are Commissioner Director Tayfun Selen (R, Chatham Township, term as commissioner ends December 31, 2023; term as director ends 2022),[84] Commissioner Deputy Director John Krickus (R, Washington Township, term as commissioner ends 2024; term as deputy director ends 2022),[85] Douglas Cabana (R, Boonton Township, 2022),[86] Kathryn A. DeFillippo (R, Roxbury, 2022),[87] Thomas J. Mastrangelo (R, Montville, 2022),[88] Stephen H. Shaw (R, Mountain Lakes, 2024)[89] and Deborah Smith (R, Denville, 2024).[90][83]: 2 [91] The county's constitutional officers are the County Clerk and County Surrogate (both elected for five-year terms of office) and the County Sheriff (elected for a three-year term).[92] As of 2022, they are County Clerk Ann F. Grossi (R, Parsippany–Troy Hills, 2023),[93][94] Sheriff James M. Gannon (R, Boonton Township, 2022)[95][96] and Surrogate Heather Darling (R, Roxbury, 2024).[97][98]

Politics

As of March 2011, there were a total of 5,750 registered voters in the borough, of which 1,368 (23.8%) were registered as Democrats, 1,928 (33.5%) were registered as Republicans and 2,452 (42.6%) were registered as Unaffiliated. There were two voters registered as either Libertarian or Green.[99]

In the 2012 presidential election, Republican Mitt Romney received 54.6% of the vote (2,501 cast), ahead of Democrat Barack Obama with 44.7% (2,045 votes), and other candidates with 0.7% (33 votes), among the 4,600 ballots cast by the borough's 6,131 registered voters (21 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 75.0%.[100][101] In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McCain received 50.2% of the vote (2,413 cast), ahead of Democrat Barack Obama with 48.4% (2,325 votes) and other candidates with 0.9% (44 votes), among the 4,807 ballots cast by the borough's 5,975 registered voters, for a turnout of 80.5%.[102] In the 2004 presidential election, Republican George W. Bush received 56.7% of the vote (2,678 ballots cast), outpolling Democrat John Kerry with 42.3% (1,995 votes) and other candidates with 0.5% (28 votes), among the 4,721 ballots cast by the borough's 6,084 registered voters, for a turnout percentage of 77.6.[103]

In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 71.1% of the vote (1,770 cast), ahead of Democrat Barbara Buono with 27.2% (678 votes), and other candidates with 1.6% (41 votes), among the 2,530 ballots cast by the borough's 6,046 registered voters (41 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 41.8%.[104][105] In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 56.6% of the vote (1,892 ballots cast), ahead of Democrat Jon Corzine with 32.7% (1,092 votes), Independent Chris Daggett with 9.7% (325 votes) and other candidates with 0.4% (14 votes), among the 3,344 ballots cast by the borough's 5,831 registered voters, yielding a 57.3% turnout.[106]

Shared services

Main article: The Chathams - Shared services

The borough shares various joint public services with Chatham Township: the recreation program, the library (since 1974), the school district (created in 1986), and medical emergency squad (since 1936).

Along with Chatham Township, Harding Township, and Madison, the borough became a member of a joint municipal court that was created in 2010.[107][108] The court is located in Madison.

Fishawack Festival

First celebrated in 1971, the Fishawack Festival is held in the beginning of summer, on South Passaic Avenue and Fire House Plaza, which are blocked off so up to 20,000 attendees may walk freely in the streets. Local vendors set up booths to sell food, clothing, toys, and various other souvenirs, as well as offering games and rides for children. The festival has been sponsored by the Madison YMCA, PipeWorks Services, and Klas Electrical. Funds generated from the Fishawack Festival go toward various community groups located in Chatham and Chatham Township.

The word "Fishawack" is derived from the Lenni Lenape name for the Passaic River. In a book about the derivation of the name for the festival, Chatham at the Crossing of the Fishawack by John T. Cunningham, the author noted, "Fishawack was the Lenni Lenape Indian name for the Passaic River and Chatham was located at the narrowest part making it the Crossing of the Fishawack in the Valley of the Great Watchung... In 1971, a Chamber of Commerce sidewalk sale day, called Fishawack Day, was held. Thus began an event, which in time was adopted by Fishawack Inc., the governing body of volunteers who turned it into a big biennial town-wide Festival.".[109]

Education

Public schools

Main article: School District of the Chathams

The School District of the Chathams is a regional public school district serving students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade from Chatham and Chatham Township.[110] The two municipalities held elections in November 1986 to consider joining their separate school districts. This proposal was supported by the voters of both communities and since then, the two municipalities have shared a regionalized school district.[111][112] Starting with the 1988–1989 school year, Chatham High School was formed by merging the former Chatham Borough High School and Chatham Township High School facilities. The Chatham Borough High School building was repurposed as the Chatham Borough Hall.[113]

As of the 2020–21 school year, the district, comprised of six schools, had an enrollment of 3,930 students and 342.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.5:1.[114] Schools in the district (with 2020–21 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[115]) are Milton Avenue School[116] with 284 students in grades Pre-K–3, Southern Boulevard School[117] with 414 students in grades K–3, Washington Avenue School[118] with 314 students in grades K–3, Lafayette School[119] with 592 students in grades 4–5, Chatham Middle School[120] with 984 students in grades 6–8 and Chatham High School[121] with 1,315 students in grades 9–12.[122][123] The district board of education has nine members who set policy and oversee the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration; the seats on the board are allocated to the constituent municipalities based on population, with the borough assigned four seats.[124]

For the 2004–2005 school year, Chatham High School was recognized with the National Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education,[125] the highest award an American school can receive. Milton Avenue School was one of 11 in the state to be recognized in 2014 by the United States Department of Education's National Blue Ribbon Schools Program.[126][127] The district high school was the first-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology.[128] The school had been ranked twentieth in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked eighth in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[129]

Private schools

Saint Patrick School, founded in 1872, serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, operating under the direction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson.[130]

Transportation

 
Route 24 eastbound in Chatham

Roads and highways

As of May 2010, the borough had a total of 32.16 miles (51.76 km) of roadways, of which 26.56 miles (42.74 km) were maintained by the municipality, 3.33 miles (5.36 km) by Morris County and 2.27 miles (3.65 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation.[131]

New Jersey Route 24 is a multi-lane state freeway crossing the borough boundaries, although there is no direct access to Chatham from this limited access highway. New Jersey Route 124 is the main local road providing access to Chatham along the route that connected the area before the limited access highway was built. This local route wound its way through the area since before colonial times following the course of the Great Minisink Trail and had been designated as Route 24 until it was renumbered to Route 124 when the limited access highway was built in the late 1900s. The local communities chose to retain their historic character and opted out of plans for the multi-lane, limited access highway. The nearest interchanges with the new Route 24 are in neighboring communities, to the east it is Millburn and to the west it is Hanover Township.

In 1906, the borough received coverage from The New York Times and The Chatham Press for implementation of what may be the world's first recorded use of a speed bump as a traffic calming device.[132] A report from the April 24, 1906, issue of The Times described how "[t]he 'bumps' installed by the borough officials of the village of Chatham to check the speed of automobiles through the village had their first test yesterday, and proved a decided success."[133]

Public transportation

 
Chatham railroad station

NJ Transit stops at the Chatham station[134] to provide commuter service on the Morristown Line, with trains heading to the Hoboken Terminal and to Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan.[135]

Direct bus service from Chatham to Manhattan is not provided by NJ Transit. It provides various route options with bus transfers. Local bus service is provided by NJ Transit on the 873 route to the Livingston Mall and Parsippany-Troy Hills,[136] which replaced service that had been offered until 2010 on the MCM3 and MCM8 routes.[137]

Bus lines also connect Chatham with the other towns along Route 24 from Newark to Morristown, mostly running parallel to the train lines. Nowadays, buses transport people along the line, but stagecoaches and trolleys were mass transit methods once used along the route that followed Main Street. That section of the old route now is labeled Route 124 because of the opening of a new Route 24, a modern highway. The destruction of the historic downtown by a proposed widening of the historic route was opposed and after much debate, an alternate route was chosen to preserve the historic character of downtown Chatham and downtown Madison. The last rails for the trolley system were removed from the area roads in the 1950s.[citation needed]

Library

 
Library of The Chathams

Chatham Library was founded in 1907 in downtown Chatham after decades of discussion and planning. Growth of the collection brought about expansion and movement to progressively larger facilities until the current building was built on Main Street on the former site of the Fairview Hotel, after it had burned down. The hotel land was bought after a borough-wide solicitation of funds that was proposed by Charles M. Lum, after whose family Lum Avenue is named, and a brick building was constructed to house the library. The new Chatham Library was dedicated and opened to the public in 1924.[138]

A referendum on the November 1974 ballot regarding jointure was approved by voters, providing that the Chatham Library also would serve Chatham Township residents. The library was renamed as the Library of The Chathams, which now is administered by six trustees, who are appointed jointly through the two governments via the mayors of the two municipalities or their representatives, as well as a representative from the newly created joint School District of the Chathams.[138]

In 1985, the library joined the Morris Automated Information Network (MAIN), an electronic database created to link together all of the public libraries in Morris County. Expansion of the library with an addition costing nearly $4,000,000 was planned with the governments of the two municipalities contributing a combined $2,000,000. The project was completed and the new addition dedicated on January 11, 2004.[138]

Sister city

Chatham has one sister city. It is   Esternay, France.[139]

Notable people

See also: Category:People from Chatham Borough, New Jersey

People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Chatham since its founding in 1710 include:

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  152. ^ Neighborhood House, real estate market get boost from Jets, New Jersey On-Line. Accessed December 9, 2010. "Offensive lineman Nick Mangold put it another way. The 24-year-old and his wife have been busy in recent weeks moving into their new two-story house in Chatham Borough, meeting neighbors."
  153. ^ Berman, Zach. "A man of his words: Play-by-play is Bob Papa's work, love", The Star-Ledger, January 2, 2011. Accessed March 21, 2012. "There's one subtle staple in every Bob Papa broadcast.... In the opening segment, with Jen and their three sons watching and waiting in their Chatham home, Papa delivered in the most understated of ways."
  154. ^ Staff. "Winners Of Pulitzer Prizes In Journalism, Letters And The Arts", The New York Times, April 17, 1987. Accessed March 6, 2013. "Mr. Shipler was born in Chatham, N.J., graduated from Dartmouth College and joined The Times as a news clerk in 1966."
  155. ^ Two Reporters bios
  156. ^ Havsy, Jane. "Chatham teen to represent U.S. in CONCACAF U-17 championship", Daily Record, April 22, 2019. Accessed October 1, 2019. "John Tolkin of Chatham has been called in to the U.S. Soccer under-17 national team ahead of the CONCACAF U-17 Championship at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida."
  157. ^ , backed up by the Internet Archive as of May 16, 2008. Accessed March 6, 2013. "Aaron Montgomery Ward was born on February 17, 1844, in Chatham, New Jersey, to a family whose forebears had served as officers in the French and Indian War as well as in the American Revolution."
  158. ^ Burros, Marian. "Alice Waters: Food Revolutionary", The New York Times, August 4, 1996. Accessed March 21, 2012. "Alice Louise Waters, one of four daughters born in Chatham, N.J., is no longer just a restaurateur. Chez Panisse, which she opened just to entertain her friends, has become a shrine to the new American cooking and a mecca of the culinary world."
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Historical research resources

  • Anderson, John R. Shepard Kollock: Editor for Freedom. Chatham, New Jersey: Chatham Historical Society, 1975.
  • Cunningham, John T. Chatham: At the Crossing of the Fishawack. Chatham, New Jersey: Chatham Historical Society, 1967.
  • Philhower, Charles A., Brief History of Chatham, Morris County, New Jersey. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1914.
  • Thayer, Theodore. Colonial and Revolutionary Morris County. The Morris County Heritage Commission. (government publication)
  • Vanderpoel, Ambrose Ely. History of Chatham, New Jersey. New York: Charles Francis Press, 1921. Reprint. Chatham, New Jersey: Chatham Historical Society, 1959.
  • White, Donald Wallace. A Village at War: Chatham and the American Revolution. Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1979.
  • ______________. Chatham. Dover, New Hampshire: Arcadia Publishing, 1997.
  • ______________. "Historic Minisink Trail". Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society. 8, (January–October 1923): 199–205.
  • ______________. "Indians of the Morris County Area". Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society. 54 (October 1936): 248–267.
  • Design Guidelines Manual For Rehabilitation and Construction in the Main Street Historic District. Chatham, New Jersey: Chatham Borough Historic Preservation Commission, 1994. (government publication)

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This article is about a borough For an adjacent township see Chatham Township New Jersey For more information about their shared services including school and library systems see Chatham New Jersey Chatham is a borough in Morris County New Jersey United States As of the 2020 United States census the borough s population was 9 212 9 10 an increase of 250 2 8 from the 2010 census count of 8 962 19 20 21 which in turn reflected an increase of 502 5 9 from the 8 460 counted in the 2000 census 22 Chatham New JerseyBoroughBorough of ChathamMain Street Downtown ChathamLocation in Morris County and the state of New Jersey Census Bureau map of Chatham New JerseyChathamLocation in Morris CountyShow map of Morris County New JerseyChathamLocation in New JerseyShow map of New JerseyChathamLocation in the United StatesShow map of the United StatesCoordinates 40 44 26 N 74 23 04 W 40 740686 N 74 38448 W 40 740686 74 38448 Coordinates 40 44 26 N 74 23 04 W 40 740686 N 74 38448 W 40 740686 74 38448 1 2 Country United StatesState New JerseyCountyMorrisSettled1710 as a colonial village IncorporatedAugust 19 1892 as village ReincorporatedMarch 1 1897 as borough Named forWilliam Pitt 1st Earl of ChathamGovernment 6 TypeBorough BodyBorough Council MayorThaddeus Kobylarz D term ends December 31 2023 3 4 AdministratorSteven W Williams 5 Municipal clerkVanessa Nienhouse 5 Area 7 Total2 38 sq mi 6 16 km2 Land2 34 sq mi 6 07 km2 Water0 04 sq mi 0 09 km2 1 51 Rank382nd of 565 in state32nd of 39 in county 1 Elevation 8 233 ft 71 m Population 2020 9 10 Total9 212 Estimate 2021 9 11 9 253 Rank256th of 566 in state21st of 39 in county 12 Density3 900 sq mi 1 500 km2 Rank166th of 566 in state5th of 39 in county 12 Time zoneUTC 05 00 Eastern EST Summer DST UTC 04 00 Eastern EDT ZIP Code07928 13 14 Area code s 973 15 FIPS code34 12100 1 16 17 GNIS feature ID0885182 1 18 Websitewww wbr chathamborough wbr orgThe area that is Chatham has been inhabited by humans for thousands of years During historic times Europeans began trading with the Native Americans who farmed fished and hunted in the area when it was claimed as part of New Netherlands The community that now is Chatham was first settled by Europeans in 1710 within Morris Township in what was then the English Province of New Jersey The community was settled because the site already was on the path of a well worn Native American trail the location of an important crossing of the Passaic River and being close to a gap in the Watchung Mountains The residents of the English community changed its name from John Day s Bridge to Chatham New Jersey in 1773 23 Chatham s residents were active participants in the American Revolutionary War which ended in 1783 Chatham Township was formed as a local government in the new state of New Jersey on February 12 1806 taking its name from this pre revolutionary village Initial local government forms were limited while the new state government evolved The new township governed the village of Chatham that lay within the present day borough boundaries along with several other pre revolutionary colonial villages and large areas of unsettled lands connecting or adjacent to them On August 19 1892 Chatham adopted a new village form of government when it became allowed within townships in the state after the revolution Shortly thereafter once it was allowed the village of Chatham reincorporated for governance as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 1 1897 returning to complete independence from the surrounding Chatham Township 24 25 An early railroad located along the Morris and Essex Lines that had become well established by the start of the Civil War as one of America s first commuter railroads had a stop at Chatham which attracted many from nearby Manhattan 20 miles to the east 26 It remains a commuter town for residents who work in New York City Today Chatham is a pedestrian friendly community that covers less than 2 5 square miles 6 5 km2 including a central business district and railroad station within approximately 1 mile 1 6 km from its farthest boundary The borough is situated in southeastern Morris County bordering both Essex and Union counties along the Passaic River Northeast of the borough is the upscale Mall at Short Hills located in the Short Hills section of Millburn In July 2005 CNN Money and Money magazine ranked Chatham ninth on its annual list of the 100 Best Places to Live in the United States 27 New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Chatham as its 25th best place to live in its 2008 rankings of the Best Places To Live in New Jersey 28 In 2012 Forbes com listed Chatham as 375th in its listing of America s Most Expensive ZIP Codes with a median home price of 776 703 29 The borough has been ranked as one of the state s highest income communities In March 2018 Bloomberg ranked Chatham as the 64th highest income place in the United States and as having the 8th highest income in New Jersey 30 In the 2013 2017 ACS the borough had a median household income of 163 026 ranking 16th in the state 31 32 The 2014 2018 ACS showed a median household income of 169 524 in the borough versus 111 316 in the county and 79 363 statewide 33 34 35 Contents 1 History 2 Architecture 3 Geography 3 1 Climate 4 Demographics 4 1 2010 census 4 2 2000 census 5 Government 5 1 Local government 5 2 Federal state and county representation 5 3 Politics 5 4 Shared services 6 Fishawack Festival 7 Education 7 1 Public schools 7 2 Private schools 8 Transportation 8 1 Roads and highways 8 2 Public transportation 9 Library 10 Sister city 11 Notable people 12 References 13 Historical research resources 14 External linksHistory EditOccupied for thousands of years by Native Americans this land was overseen by clans of the Minsi and Lenni Lenape who farmed fished and hunted upon it They were organized into a matrilineal agricultural and mobile hunting society sustained with fixed but not permanent settlements in their clan territories Villages were established and relocated as the clans farmed new sections of the land when soil fertility lessened and moved among their fishing and hunting grounds In 1498 John Cabot explored this portion of the New World The area was claimed as a part of the Dutch New Netherland province where active trading in furs took advantage of the natural pass west but the Lenape prevented permanent settlement beyond what is now Jersey City Although rapid exhaustion of the local beaver population soon turned the Dutch interests much farther north contention existed between the Dutch and the British over the rights to this land and battles ensued Passing to the rule of the British as the Province of New Jersey upon the fall of New Amsterdam in 1664 and becoming one of its original thirteen colonies marks the beginning of permanent European settlements on this land The land that would become Chatham was part of the Province of East Jersey the Indian rights to Chatham were purchased in 1680 from members of the Minsi and Lenni Lenape tribes They spoke an Algonquian language They hunted and fished in the area and farmed on the lands of their settlements The area was well connected with established paths among their settlements to and from bountiful resources and to neighboring settlements Safe passageways through the valleys marshes swamps and mountains of this portion of the Watchung Mountains connected the area that would become Chatham with other settlements in the area Except for highways built since the 1970s and a shunpike built to avoid tolls on the roads connecting the colonial settlements of Chatham and Bottle Hill the roads of the area follow those time proven long trodden trails made by the native tribes Main Street rises from a shallow crossing of the Passaic River and after traveling through what became the settlements of Chatham and Bottle Hill which became Madison the road follows a westward path that leads to the top of the plateau on which Morristown was founded In 1680 the British first purchased this Lenape land upon which John Day made the first European settlement in 1710 He chose to settle upon the western bank of the Fishawack Crossing of the Passaic River on the traditional Lenape Minisink Trail Chatham was in the area delineated as Morris Township by the English The landing at that location was the best place to ford the river and always had been used by the Lenape on their route to the Hudson River and south from their hunting grounds in what is now Sussex County That traditional part of the Great Trail would become Route 24 leading to Madison Morristown Mendham and Chester It became known as Main Street in Chatham The Old Mill at Chatham N J depicted on a 1911 postcard Before long the village became known as John Day s Bridge because of a bridge he built across the river at the shallow landing By 1750 the village had a blacksmith shop as well as a flour mill a grist mill and a lumber mill In 1773 the village was renamed to Chatham to honor a member of the British Parliament William Pitt the first Earl of Chatham who was an outspoken advocate of the rights of the colonists in America 23 36 37 New Jersey was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolutionary War The New Jersey Constitution of 1776 was passed on July 2 1776 two days before the Second Continental Congress declared American Independence from Great Britain It was an act of the New Jersey Provincial Congress which made itself into the state Legislature To reassure neutrals it provided that it would become void if the state of New Jersey reached reconciliation with Great Britain The citizens of Chatham were active participants in the Revolutionary War and nearby Morristown became the military center of the revolution George Washington twice established his winter headquarters in Morristown and revolutionary troops were active regularly in the entire area The Lenape assisted the colonists supplying the revolutionary army with warriors and scouts in exchange for food supplies and the promise of a role at the head of a future Native American state The Treaty of Easton signed by the Lenape and the British in 1766 had required that the Lenape move to Pennsylvania Wanting to recoup rights lost thereby to the British the Lenape were the first tribe to enter into a treaty with the emerging government of the United States 38 In 1781 General Rochambeau built a large bakery operation at Chatham as a subterfuge that could be interpreted as his plan to stay in Chatham for an extended amount of time in order to distract from the fact that his troops were marching south toward Yorktown 39 The Watchung mountain range was a strategic asset in the war acting as a natural barrier to the British troops and providing a vantage point for Washington to monitor their troop movements The Minisink Trail and the village bridge provided a route for essential supplies across the river and through the mountain range The Hobart Gap was vital as the only pass through the Watchung Mountains 40 Washington wrote 17 letters while he stayed at a homestead in Chatham The community was the site of several skirmishes as residents and the rebel army held off British advances preventing them from attacking Washington s supplies at Morristown In 1779 a printing press was established in the village of Chatham by Shepard Kollock From his workshop he published books 41 pamphlets and the New Jersey Journal the third newspaper published in New Jersey 42 conducting lively debates about the efforts for independence and boosting the morale of the troops and their families with information derived directly from Washington s headquarters in nearby Morristown Kollock s newspaper was published until 1992 as the Elizabeth Daily Journal having relocated to there in 1787 and was the fourth oldest newspaper published continuously in the United States 43 After the Revolutionary War was over in 1783 establishment of new forms of government began On February 12 1806 the village of Chatham became part of Chatham Township with a township form of government that shared the village s name and included several other area communities and a large amount of unsettled land However i n 1892 Chatham Village found itself at odds with the rest of the township Although village residents paid 40 percent of the township taxes they got only 7 percent of the receipts in services The village had to raise its own money to install kerosene street lamps and its roads were in poor repair As a result the village voted on August 9 1892 to secede from governance by the township 23 Ten days later on August 19 1892 the citizens of Chatham reincorporated with another type of village government then offered as an alternative within townships by the new state The evolving state regulations regarding governance structure soon began to offer a borough form for governance Chatham adopted that new government form and the village reincorporated for governance as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 1 1897 with complete independence from Chatham Township 24 Most of the colonial settlements that had been part of Chatham Township abandoned its governance as soon as new forms of government became available to them during this evolution of new state regulations Green Village being the exception each of the settlements withdrew from governance by the township and Chatham Township was left to govern mostly unsettled lands In 1910 the borough boundaries expanded when Chatham acquired a slice of Florham Park 24 The local form of government and the boundaries of the borough have remained the same since that acquisition encompassing about 2 4 square miles 6 2 km2 Architecture Edit Historic Crane House c 1937 At 2 4 square miles 6 2 km2 in area Chatham was mostly built out well before World War II retaining homes that sometimes display the dates of their construction during the colonial and revolutionary times Two houses now privately owned survive from colonial times the Paul Day House at 24 Kings Road and the Nathaniel Bonnell House at 34 Watchung Avenue 23 Geography EditAccording to the United States Census Bureau the borough had a total area of 2 38 square miles 6 17 km2 including 2 35 square miles 6 08 km2 of land and 0 04 square miles 0 09 km2 of water 1 51 1 2 1 2 Unincorporated communities localities and place names located partially or completely within the borough include Stanley 44 The borough is located 20 miles 32 km west of New York City on the eastern edge of Morris County Chatham s neighboring communities are Summit to the southeast located in Union County Millburn and its Short Hills neighborhood in Essex County to the northeast while communities also located in Morris County include Chatham Township to the west and Madison and Florham Park to the north 45 46 47 The Passaic River which rises at Millington Gorge in Long Hill Township and defines the Great Swamp flows north along the eastern boundary of Chatham 48 A good crossing location identified by Native Americans to early European settlers figured significantly in the colonial history of the community Fairmount Avenue ascends Long Hill perpendicularly from Main Street in the contemporary center of town to the highest elevation of the town among the Watchung Mountains From there one may see the lights of New York beyond the crest of the ridge hills of Summit and Short Hills Water from artesian wells is stored at its crest to provide the drinking water for the community A portion of the Great Swamp extends to the southern boundary of Chatham and other marshes surround the community to the north and northwest The marshes and brooks in the area contain water draining from the plateau of Morristown and many points to the north and west All are remnants of a massive lake that covered the area following the retreat of the Wisconsin glacier of the last Ice age Residents of Chatham were among those in late 1959 who formed the Jersey Jetport Site Association and instigated preservation of the Great Swamp when the New York Port Authority sought to turn it into a massive regional airport 49 50 51 They later were joined by the North American Wildlife Foundation that completed acquisition of enough of the Great Swamp to protect the massive natural resource as a federal park The Great Swamp is a major watershed and a significant resting point for migratory birds The core of the swamp was purchased with the help of Geraldine R Dodge and Marcellus Hartley Dodge Sr Several other members of the Jersey Jetport Site Association including two residents of Chatham Kafi Benz and Esty Weiss who were students at the nearby campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University began to infiltrate meetings of the administration of Austin Joseph Tobin the executive director of the Port Authority They attended meetings scheduled quietly to garner the support of union workers Once inside the meetings they provided pamphlets in opposition to the project which infuriated the Port Authority administration Eventually other organizations formed to join the opposition to the plans for the airport and finally a majority of the swamp was assembled to be donated to the federal government to become a National Wildlife Refuge Stewart Udall Secretary of the Interior under President John F Kennedy lent his support to the local efforts to save the swamp while he served as U S Representative from Arizona making recommendations to the Dwight D Eisenhower administration to also lend their support On November 3 1960 the legislation creating the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was passed by an act of the United States Congress 52 53 Just northeast of the borough is the upscale Mall at Short Hills located in the Short Hills section of Millburn Climate Edit Chatham has a humid continental climate and is slightly more variant lows are colder highs are warmer than its neighbor 20 miles 32 km east New York City Climate data for Chatham 07928 includes Chatham borough and Chatham Township Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YearRecord high F C 73 23 82 28 89 32 96 36 97 36 103 39 107 42 104 40 99 37 93 34 84 29 76 24 107 42 Average high F C 39 4 42 6 51 11 62 17 73 23 82 28 86 30 85 29 78 26 66 19 55 13 44 7 64 18 Average low F C 18 8 20 7 28 2 38 3 47 8 57 14 63 17 61 16 53 12 40 4 32 0 24 4 40 4 Record low F C 25 32 26 32 6 21 12 11 25 4 31 1 41 5 35 2 26 3 13 11 5 21 26 32 Average precipitation inches mm 3 54 90 2 91 74 4 20 107 4 29 109 4 38 111 4 70 119 4 73 120 4 42 112 4 89 124 4 65 118 4 06 103 4 13 105 50 90 1 293 Source 54 Demographics EditHistorical populationCensus Pop 1880738 18907805 7 19001 36174 5 19101 87437 7 19202 42129 2 19303 86959 8 19404 88826 3 19507 39151 2 19609 51728 8 19709 5660 5 19808 537 10 8 19908 007 6 2 20008 4605 7 20108 9625 9 20209 2122 8 2021 est 9 253 11 0 4 Population sources 1880 1890 55 1890 1920 56 1890 1910 57 1910 1930 58 1900 1990 59 2000 60 61 2010 19 20 21 2020 9 10 2010 census Edit The 2010 United States census counted 8 962 people 3 073 households and 2 397 families in the borough The population density was 3 776 1 per square mile 1 458 0 km2 There were 3 210 housing units at an average density of 1 352 5 per square mile 522 2 km2 The racial makeup was 91 13 8 167 White 0 99 89 Black or African American 0 20 18 Native American 4 85 435 Asian 0 00 0 Pacific Islander 1 00 90 from other races and 1 82 163 from two or more races Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5 10 457 of the population 19 Of the 3 073 households 48 1 had children under the age of 18 68 9 were married couples living together 7 0 had a female householder with no husband present and 22 0 were non families Of all households 18 6 were made up of individuals and 7 9 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older The average household size was 2 91 and the average family size was 3 37 19 33 5 of the population were under the age of 18 3 9 from 18 to 24 25 8 from 25 to 44 26 7 from 45 to 64 and 10 2 who were 65 years of age or older The median age was 38 0 years For every 100 females the population had 94 1 males For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 89 9 males 19 The Census Bureau s 2006 2010 American Community Survey showed that in 2010 inflation adjusted dollars median household income was 143 281 with a margin of error of 14 294 and the median family income was 164 805 12 245 Males had a median income of 127 906 13 208 versus 59 271 14 990 for females The per capita income for the borough was 64 950 5 936 About 0 4 of families and 1 1 of the population were below the poverty line including 0 3 of those under age 18 and 7 5 of those age 65 or over 62 Based on data from the 2006 2010 American Community Survey the borough had a per capita income of 64 950 ranked 37th in the state compared to per capita income in Morris County of 47 342 and statewide of 34 858 63 2000 census Edit As of the 2000 United States census 16 there were 8 460 people 3 159 households and 2 385 families The population density was 3 505 9 people per square mile 1 355 4 km2 There were 3 232 housing units at an average density of 1 339 4 per square mile 517 8 km2 The racial makeup of was 95 79 White 0 14 African American 0 06 Native American 2 81 Asian 0 01 Pacific Islander 0 50 from other races and 0 69 from two or more races Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2 64 of the population 60 61 There were 3 159 households out of which 39 4 had children under the age of 18 living with them 67 6 were married couples living together 6 4 had a female householder with no husband present and 24 5 were non families 21 3 of all households were made up of individuals and 9 2 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older The average household size was 2 67 and the average family size was 3 14 60 61 The population was spread out with 28 3 under the age of 18 3 8 from 18 to 24 33 5 from 25 to 44 21 4 from 45 to 64 and 13 0 who were 65 years of age or older The median age was 37 years For every 100 females there were 91 3 males For every 100 females age 18 and over there were 87 0 males 60 61 The median income for a household was 101 991 and the median income for a family was 119 635 Males had a median income of 81 543 versus 59 063 for females The per capita income was 53 027 About 1 7 of families and 2 2 of the population were below the poverty line including 1 0 of those under age 18 and 3 3 of those age 65 or over 60 61 Government Edit Chatham municipal government building Chatham Firehouse Plaza From 1614 the area was governed by the Dutch as part of New Netherland In 1664 it came under governance by the British within the Province of New Jersey during which a permanent European settlement was established in 1710 that changed its name to Chatham in 1773 Chatham has adopted different forms of local government throughout its existence Under British colonial rule a village form of government was adopted After the American Revolutionary War the community became part of Chatham Township which was founded by new state of New Jersey in 1806 as it was beginning to determine governmental forms That township also included several other settlements and a great deal of unsettled lands Unhappy with that governance Chatham seceded from the township in 1892 and returned to a village government When the borough form of government was offered by the state Chatham adopted that form of government by a reincorporation in 1897 and that governmental form has been used ever since 24 Local government Edit Further information Mayor of Chatham Borough New Jersey Having adopted several different forms of government since its settlement in 1710 Chatham adopted the newly allowed borough form of New Jersey municipal government during a reincorporation in 1897 The borough form of government is now used in 218 municipalities of the 564 statewide making it the most common form of government in New Jersey 64 The governing body is comprised of the mayor and the borough council with all positions elected at large on a partisan basis as part of the November general election A mayor is elected directly by the voters to a four year term of office The borough council is comprised of six members elected to serve three year terms on a staggered basis with two seats coming up for election each year in a three year cycle 6 The borough form of government used by Chatham is a weak mayor strong council government in which council members act as the legislative body with the mayor presiding at meetings and voting only in the event of a tie The mayor can veto ordinances subject to an override by a two thirds majority vote of the council The mayor makes committee and liaison assignments for council members and most appointments are made by the mayor with the advice and consent of the council 65 66 As of 2023 update the Mayor is Democrat Thaddeus Kobylarz whose term of office ends December 31 2023 Members of the borough council are Council President Carolyn Dempsey D 2024 Karen Koronkiewicz D 2025 Jocelyn Mathiasen D 2024 Leonard Resto D 2023 Irene Treloar D 2025 and Frank Truilo D 2023 3 67 68 69 70 71 72 Federal state and county representation Edit The borough is located in the 11th Congressional District 73 and is part of the 21st state legislative district of New Jersey 20 74 75 Prior to the 2011 reapportionment following the 2010 Census the borough had been in the 26th state legislative district 76 For the 118th United States Congress New Jersey s Eleventh Congressional District is represented by Mikie Sherrill D Montclair 77 New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Democrats Cory Booker Newark term ends 2027 78 and Bob Menendez Harrison term ends 2025 79 80 For the 2022 2023 session the 21st Legislative District of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Jon Bramnick R Westfield and in the General Assembly by Michele Matsikoudis R New Providence and Nancy Munoz R Summit 81 Morris County is governed by a Board of County Commissioners comprised of seven members who are elected at large in partisan elections to three year terms on a staggered basis with either one or three seats up for election each year as part of the November general election 82 Actual day to day operation of departments is supervised by County Administrator John Bonanni 83 8 As of 2022 update Morris County s Commissioners are Commissioner Director Tayfun Selen R Chatham Township term as commissioner ends December 31 2023 term as director ends 2022 84 Commissioner Deputy Director John Krickus R Washington Township term as commissioner ends 2024 term as deputy director ends 2022 85 Douglas Cabana R Boonton Township 2022 86 Kathryn A DeFillippo R Roxbury 2022 87 Thomas J Mastrangelo R Montville 2022 88 Stephen H Shaw R Mountain Lakes 2024 89 and Deborah Smith R Denville 2024 90 83 2 91 The county s constitutional officers are the County Clerk and County Surrogate both elected for five year terms of office and the County Sheriff elected for a three year term 92 As of 2022 update they are County Clerk Ann F Grossi R Parsippany Troy Hills 2023 93 94 Sheriff James M Gannon R Boonton Township 2022 95 96 and Surrogate Heather Darling R Roxbury 2024 97 98 Politics Edit As of March 2011 there were a total of 5 750 registered voters in the borough of which 1 368 23 8 were registered as Democrats 1 928 33 5 were registered as Republicans and 2 452 42 6 were registered as Unaffiliated There were two voters registered as either Libertarian or Green 99 In the 2012 presidential election Republican Mitt Romney received 54 6 of the vote 2 501 cast ahead of Democrat Barack Obama with 44 7 2 045 votes and other candidates with 0 7 33 votes among the 4 600 ballots cast by the borough s 6 131 registered voters 21 ballots were spoiled for a turnout of 75 0 100 101 In the 2008 presidential election Republican John McCain received 50 2 of the vote 2 413 cast ahead of Democrat Barack Obama with 48 4 2 325 votes and other candidates with 0 9 44 votes among the 4 807 ballots cast by the borough s 5 975 registered voters for a turnout of 80 5 102 In the 2004 presidential election Republican George W Bush received 56 7 of the vote 2 678 ballots cast outpolling Democrat John Kerry with 42 3 1 995 votes and other candidates with 0 5 28 votes among the 4 721 ballots cast by the borough s 6 084 registered voters for a turnout percentage of 77 6 103 In the 2013 gubernatorial election Republican Chris Christie received 71 1 of the vote 1 770 cast ahead of Democrat Barbara Buono with 27 2 678 votes and other candidates with 1 6 41 votes among the 2 530 ballots cast by the borough s 6 046 registered voters 41 ballots were spoiled for a turnout of 41 8 104 105 In the 2009 gubernatorial election Republican Chris Christie received 56 6 of the vote 1 892 ballots cast ahead of Democrat Jon Corzine with 32 7 1 092 votes Independent Chris Daggett with 9 7 325 votes and other candidates with 0 4 14 votes among the 3 344 ballots cast by the borough s 5 831 registered voters yielding a 57 3 turnout 106 Shared services Edit Main article The Chathams Shared services The borough shares various joint public services with Chatham Township the recreation program the library since 1974 the school district created in 1986 and medical emergency squad since 1936 Along with Chatham Township Harding Township and Madison the borough became a member of a joint municipal court that was created in 2010 107 108 The court is located in Madison Fishawack Festival EditFirst celebrated in 1971 the Fishawack Festival is held in the beginning of summer on South Passaic Avenue and Fire House Plaza which are blocked off so up to 20 000 attendees may walk freely in the streets Local vendors set up booths to sell food clothing toys and various other souvenirs as well as offering games and rides for children The festival has been sponsored by the Madison YMCA PipeWorks Services and Klas Electrical Funds generated from the Fishawack Festival go toward various community groups located in Chatham and Chatham Township The word Fishawack is derived from the Lenni Lenape name for the Passaic River In a book about the derivation of the name for the festival Chatham at the Crossing of the Fishawack by John T Cunningham the author noted Fishawack was the Lenni Lenape Indian name for the Passaic River and Chatham was located at the narrowest part making it the Crossing of the Fishawack in the Valley of the Great Watchung In 1971 a Chamber of Commerce sidewalk sale day called Fishawack Day was held Thus began an event which in time was adopted by Fishawack Inc the governing body of volunteers who turned it into a big biennial town wide Festival 109 Education EditPublic schools Edit Main article School District of the Chathams The School District of the Chathams is a regional public school district serving students in pre kindergarten through twelfth grade from Chatham and Chatham Township 110 The two municipalities held elections in November 1986 to consider joining their separate school districts This proposal was supported by the voters of both communities and since then the two municipalities have shared a regionalized school district 111 112 Starting with the 1988 1989 school year Chatham High School was formed by merging the former Chatham Borough High School and Chatham Township High School facilities The Chatham Borough High School building was repurposed as the Chatham Borough Hall 113 As of the 2020 21 school year the district comprised of six schools had an enrollment of 3 930 students and 342 8 classroom teachers on an FTE basis for a student teacher ratio of 11 5 1 114 Schools in the district with 2020 21 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics 115 are Milton Avenue School 116 with 284 students in grades Pre K 3 Southern Boulevard School 117 with 414 students in grades K 3 Washington Avenue School 118 with 314 students in grades K 3 Lafayette School 119 with 592 students in grades 4 5 Chatham Middle School 120 with 984 students in grades 6 8 and Chatham High School 121 with 1 315 students in grades 9 12 122 123 The district board of education has nine members who set policy and oversee the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration the seats on the board are allocated to the constituent municipalities based on population with the borough assigned four seats 124 For the 2004 2005 school year Chatham High School was recognized with the National Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education 125 the highest award an American school can receive Milton Avenue School was one of 11 in the state to be recognized in 2014 by the United States Department of Education s National Blue Ribbon Schools Program 126 127 The district high school was the first ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine s September 2014 cover story on the state s Top Public High Schools using a new ranking methodology 128 The school had been ranked twentieth in the state of 328 schools in 2012 after being ranked eighth in 2010 out of 322 schools listed 129 Private schools Edit Saint Patrick School founded in 1872 serves students in pre kindergarten through eighth grade operating under the direction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson 130 Transportation Edit Route 24 eastbound in Chatham Roads and highways Edit As of May 2010 update the borough had a total of 32 16 miles 51 76 km of roadways of which 26 56 miles 42 74 km were maintained by the municipality 3 33 miles 5 36 km by Morris County and 2 27 miles 3 65 km by the New Jersey Department of Transportation 131 New Jersey Route 24 is a multi lane state freeway crossing the borough boundaries although there is no direct access to Chatham from this limited access highway New Jersey Route 124 is the main local road providing access to Chatham along the route that connected the area before the limited access highway was built This local route wound its way through the area since before colonial times following the course of the Great Minisink Trail and had been designated as Route 24 until it was renumbered to Route 124 when the limited access highway was built in the late 1900s The local communities chose to retain their historic character and opted out of plans for the multi lane limited access highway The nearest interchanges with the new Route 24 are in neighboring communities to the east it is Millburn and to the west it is Hanover Township In 1906 the borough received coverage from The New York Times and The Chatham Press for implementation of what may be the world s first recorded use of a speed bump as a traffic calming device 132 A report from the April 24 1906 issue of The Times described how t he bumps installed by the borough officials of the village of Chatham to check the speed of automobiles through the village had their first test yesterday and proved a decided success 133 Public transportation Edit Chatham railroad station NJ Transit stops at the Chatham station 134 to provide commuter service on the Morristown Line with trains heading to the Hoboken Terminal and to Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan 135 Direct bus service from Chatham to Manhattan is not provided by NJ Transit It provides various route options with bus transfers Local bus service is provided by NJ Transit on the 873 route to the Livingston Mall and Parsippany Troy Hills 136 which replaced service that had been offered until 2010 on the MCM3 and MCM8 routes 137 Bus lines also connect Chatham with the other towns along Route 24 from Newark to Morristown mostly running parallel to the train lines Nowadays buses transport people along the line but stagecoaches and trolleys were mass transit methods once used along the route that followed Main Street That section of the old route now is labeled Route 124 because of the opening of a new Route 24 a modern highway The destruction of the historic downtown by a proposed widening of the historic route was opposed and after much debate an alternate route was chosen to preserve the historic character of downtown Chatham and downtown Madison The last rails for the trolley system were removed from the area roads in the 1950s citation needed Library Edit Library of The Chathams Chatham Library was founded in 1907 in downtown Chatham after decades of discussion and planning Growth of the collection brought about expansion and movement to progressively larger facilities until the current building was built on Main Street on the former site of the Fairview Hotel after it had burned down The hotel land was bought after a borough wide solicitation of funds that was proposed by Charles M Lum after whose family Lum Avenue is named and a brick building was constructed to house the library The new Chatham Library was dedicated and opened to the public in 1924 138 A referendum on the November 1974 ballot regarding jointure was approved by voters providing that the Chatham Library also would serve Chatham Township residents The library was renamed as the Library of The Chathams which now is administered by six trustees who are appointed jointly through the two governments via the mayors of the two municipalities or their representatives as well as a representative from the newly created joint School District of the Chathams 138 In 1985 the library joined the Morris Automated Information Network MAIN an electronic database created to link together all of the public libraries in Morris County Expansion of the library with an addition costing nearly 4 000 000 was planned with the governments of the two municipalities contributing a combined 2 000 000 The project was completed and the new addition dedicated on January 11 2004 138 Sister city EditChatham has one sister city It is Esternay France 139 Notable people EditSee also Category People from Chatham Borough New Jersey People who were born in residents of or otherwise closely associated with Chatham since its founding in 1710 include Ben Bailey born 1970 comedian and host of Discovery Channel s Cash Cab 140 141 Kafi Benz born 1941 writer artist conservationist and community leader 142 Leanna Brown born 1935 politician 143 144 145 Edward Everett Bruen 1859 1938 first Mayor of East Orange New Jersey and a descendant of founders of Chatham 146 147 Bruce Harris born 1951 attorney and politician who served as the borough mayor 148 Constance Horner born 1942 businesswoman who served as the third director of the United States Office of Personnel Management 149 Shepard Kollock 1750 1839 American Revolutionary War era editor author and printer of the New Jersey Journal which became the first newspaper in Chatham and third newspaper in New Jersey in 1779 150 Ann McLaughlin Korologos born 1941 nee Lauenstein United States Secretary of Labor in the Reagan Administration 151 Nick Mangold born 1984 American football center for the New York Jets of the National Football League 152 Joseph C McDonough 1924 2005 decorated Major General in the United States Army Bob Papa born 1964 head radio announcer for the New York Giants 153 David K Shipler born 1942 author correspondent journalist and filmmaker who won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for General Non Fiction for Arab and Jew Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land won the George Polk Award is the author of The Shipler Report and is co host of Two Reporters 154 155 John Tolkin born 2002 soccer defender for New York Red Bulls II in the USL Championship and the New York Red Bulls academy 156 Aaron Montgomery Ward 1844 1913 inventor of mail order and a descendant of colonial settlers 157 Alice Waters born 1944 chef and pioneer of local organic food movement 158 Jim Weichert born 1944 founder of Weichert Realtors 159 References Edit a b c d e f 2019 Census Gazetteer Files New Jersey 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stay in a given location for a while In the context of the 1781 the bake ovens in Chatham though necessary to feed the army on the march also served an important function in the scheme of confirming in Clinton in the conviction that New York was the intended target of the campaign Why Morristown National Park Service Accessed January 2 2007 A blue arrow indicates American forces and a red arrow indicates British forces Shepard Kollock s Work permanent dead link accessed December 31 2006 Staff May 8 2009 Eighteenth Century American Newspapers in the Library of Congress New Jersey Serial amp Government Publications Division Newspaper amp Current Periodical Reading Room Library of Congress Retrieved May 18 2013 Staff NEW JERSEY LOSES OLDEST PAPER The Palm Beach Post January 3 1992 Accessed March 21 2012 The Daily Journal the state s oldest newspaper will close Friday after losing money for two years Publisher Richard J Vezza wouldn t say how much money the 212 year old newspaper had lost Most of its 84 employees will be laid off Locality Search State of New Jersey Accessed May 21 2015 Areas touching Chatham MapIt Accessed March 22 2020 Morris County Municipalities Map Morris County New Jersey Department of Planning and Preservation Accessed March 22 2020 New Jersey Municipal Boundaries New Jersey Department of Transportation Accessed November 15 2019 The Passaic River Great Swamp Watershed Association Accessed March 23 2020 The upper section of the River after leaving the gorge flows north west between Long Hill Township and the Watchung Mountains skirting the lower edge of the Great Swamp Watershed It passes through Long Hill Township Berkeley Heights and Summit before passing under Route 124 at the border of Chatham Borough and Millburn Staff Finding Aid to the Jersey Jetport Site Association Collection 1959 1976 North Jersey History amp Genealogy Center Morristown and Morris Township Library Retrieved June 8 2013 Hamilton Leonard W Ph D Keynote Address to the Tenth 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years the refuge has become a resting and feeding area for more than 244 species of birds Origin and History Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge United States Fish and Wildlife Service Accessed March 21 2012 Average Weather for Chatham New Jersey 07928 Temperature and Precipitation Weather com Accessed September 27 2014 Report on Population of the United States at the Eleventh Census 1890 Part I p 239 United States Census Bureau 1895 Accessed October 20 2016 Compendium of censuses 1726 1905 together with the tabulated returns of 1905 New Jersey Department of State 1906 Accessed October 8 2013 Thirteenth Census of the United States 1910 Population by Counties and Minor Civil Divisions 1910 1900 1890 United States Census Bureau p 338 Accessed December 17 2012 Fifteenth Census of the United States 1930 Population Volume I United States Census Bureau p 714 Accessed March 2 2012 New Jersey Resident Population by Municipality 1930 1990 Archived May 10 2015 at the Wayback Machine Workforce 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Constitution 1947 Article VII Section II Paragraph 2 New Jersey Department of State Accessed June 1 2022 County clerks surrogates and sheriffs shall be elected by the people of their respective counties at general elections The term of office of county clerks and surrogates shall be five years and of sheriffs three years Ann F Grossi Esq Office of the Morris County Clerk Accessed June 1 2022 Clerks Constitutional Officers Association of New Jersey Accessed June 1 2022 About Us Sheriff James M Gannon Morris County Sheriff s Office Accessed June 1 2022 Sheriffs Constitutional Officers Association of New Jersey Accessed June 1 2022 Surrogate Heather J Darling Esq Morris County New Jersey Accessed June 1 2022 Surrogates Constitutional Officers Association of New Jersey Accessed June 1 2022 Voter Registration Summary Morris New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections March 23 2011 Accessed December 17 2012 Presidential General Election Results November 6 2012 Morris County PDF New Jersey Department of Elections March 15 2013 Retrieved December 24 2014 Number of Registered Voters and Ballots Cast November 6 2012 General Election Results Morris County PDF New Jersey Department of Elections March 15 2013 Retrieved December 24 2014 2008 Presidential General Election Results Morris County New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections December 23 2008 Accessed December 17 2012 2004 Presidential Election Morris County New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections December 13 2004 Accessed December 17 2012 Governor Morris County PDF New Jersey Department of Elections January 29 2014 Retrieved December 24 2014 Number of Registered Voters and Ballots Cast November 5 2013 General Election Results Morris County PDF New Jersey Department of Elections January 29 2014 Retrieved December 24 2014 2009 Governor Morris County Archived October 17 2012 at the Wayback Machine New Jersey Department of State Division of Elections December 31 2009 Accessed December 17 2012 Joint Municipal Court Township of Chatham Accessed November 21 2016 The Joint Municipal Court serves five towns Borough of Madison Borough of Chatham Township of Chatham Township of Harding and the Township of Morris Joint Municipal Court Borough of Madison Accessed November 21 2016 The Joint Municipal Court serves 5 towns Borough of Madison Borough of Chatham Township of Chatham Township of Harding and the Township of Morris Staff Fishawack Festival held in downtown Chatham on June 8 Independent Press June 6 2013 Accessed July 27 2015 Fishawack was the Lenni Lenape Indian name for the Passaic River and Chatham was located at the narrowest part making it the Crossing of the Fishawack in the Valley of the Great Watchung according to John T Cunningham s book Chatham at the Crossing of the Fishawack In 1971 a Chamber of Commerce sidewalk sale day called Fishawack Day was held Thus began an event which in time was adopted by Fishawack Inc the governing body of volunteers who turned it into a big biennial town wide Festival School District of the Chathams District Policy 0110 Identification School District of the Chathams Accessed July 15 2022 Purpose The Board of Education exists for the purpose of providing a thorough and efficient system of free public education in grades Pre Kindergarten through twelve in the Chatham School District Composition The School District of the Chathams is comprised of all the area within the municipal boundaries of Chatham Borough and Chatham Township in the County of Morris Padawer Ruth Side By Side Thirty years ago Chatham Township was fighting literally for respect from Chatham Borough Now it finishes first among the state s 566 municipalities in our biannual ranking The Borough s response Way to go New Jersey Monthly February 19 2008 Accessed September 27 2014 The high schools had to scramble to offer the Advanced Placement classes and electives that the new era required Kids from one school would go to the other for particular classes as if it were an extension of the same campus By 1986 after a contentious vote in both towns the two districts merged Belluscio Frank No Surprise The State Wants Only K 12 Districts Archived January 21 2012 at the Wayback Machine School Leader New Jersey School Boards Association January February 2009 Accessed September 27 2014 Since 1982 only four locally initiated regionalization proposals have succeeded School District of the Chathams 1986 combining of the K 12 Chatham borough school district with the K 12 Chatham Township district Walsh Jeremy Chatham High School celebrates past present with centennial and graduation celebration The Star Ledger June 26 2011 updated March 31 2019 Accessed January 27 2022 The year 1911 was a time of auspicious beginnings And in the Chathams six teens their youth preserved today in a faded photograph became the first class to graduate from the newly accredited Chatham High School The school building then only six months old is now Chatham Borough Hall District information for School District Of The Chathams National Center for Education Statistics Accessed February 15 2022 School Data for the School District of the Chathams National Center for Education Statistics Accessed February 15 2022 Milton Avenue School School District of the Chathams Accessed July 15 2022 Southern Boulevard School School District of the Chathams Accessed July 15 2022 Washington Avenue School School District of the Chathams Accessed July 15 2022 Lafayette School School District of the Chathams Accessed July 15 2022 Chatham Middle School School District of the Chathams Accessed July 15 2022 Chatham High School School District of the Chathams Accessed July 15 2022 School Performance Reports for the School District of the Chathams New Jersey Department of Education Accessed July 15 2022 New Jersey School Directory for the School District of the Chathams New Jersey Department of Education Accessed December 29 2016 Board of Education Members School District of the Chathams Accessed July 15 2022 Blue Ribbon Schools Program Schools Recognized 1982 Through 2013 United States Department of Education Accessed September 27 2014 Goldman Jeff Which N J schools were named to national Blue Ribbon list NJ Advance Media for NJ com October 2 2014 Accessed December 31 2014 Eleven New Jersey schools have been named to the annual National Blue Ribbon list the U S Department of Education announced Tuesday 2014 National Blue Ribbon Schools All Public and Private United States Department of Education Accessed December 31 2014 Staff Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014 New Jersey Monthly September 2 2014 Accessed September 5 2014 Staff The Top New Jersey High Schools Alphabetical New Jersey Monthly August 16 2012 Accessed September 23 2012 Morris County Elementary Schools Archived July 27 2011 at the Wayback Machine Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson Accessed August 22 2011 Morris County Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction New Jersey Department of Transportation May 2010 Accessed July 18 2014 Applebome Peter Our Towns Making A Molehill Out of a Bump The New York Times April 19 2006 Accessed June 24 2013 But it turns out that inexplicably forgotten as it seems to be there is plenty of documentation for Chatham s place in history Here a century ago this week it seems humans created one of the hallmarks of the automotive age the speed bump Staff Bumps Check Autos Crowds Cheer as Machines Strike Them and Jump Into the Air The New York Times April 24 1906 Accessed June 24 2013 Chatham station NJ Transit Accessed September 27 2014 Morristown Line NJ Transit Accessed September 27 2014 Morris County System Map NJ Transit Accessed July 27 2015 Morris County Bus Rail Connections NJ Transit Accessed October 8 2013 a b c About the Library Library of The Chathams Accessed March 21 2012 Ivers Marianne Chatham revitalizing sisterhood relationship with Esternay Independent Press August 9 2010 Accessed March 21 2012 Time after time Chatham residents pass the sign at the entrance to the borough announcing Esternay as Chatham s sister town Yet there has been little contact with the French community during the past 10 years until just recently Ben Bailey profile Archived March 4 2016 at the Wayback Machine Zanies Comedy Night Club accessed March 27 2013 Ben Bailey is a young comedian on the rise In the fall of 1992 Ben left his home in Chatham New Jersey and flew to Los Angeles with only forty dollars and a backpack full of clothes Fowler Linda From the archives Ben Bailey in his Cash Cab circa 2009 Inside Jersey December 9 2017 Accessed July 30 2019 Bailey grew up in Chatham Borough yeah the rough neighborhood where his dad was an executive for Chase Manhattan Bank and his mom worked for a time in the career center at Drew University Salmond Jessica Benz steps up to lead CONA Sarasota Observer January 21 2015 Accessed January 12 2018 Kafi Benz Born Chatham N J Moved to Sarasota 1982 Cichowski John Morris Voters Reelect 3 Gop Legislators The Record November 6 1991 Accessed November 18 2008 Brown of Chatham Borough led Democrat Drew Britcher of Parsippany Troy Hills 27 381 to 7 563 to win her third term Townsend Cara Trailblazer Leanna Brown Honored by Chatham GOP TheAlternativePress com February 10 2013 Accessed February 18 2013 Longtime Chatham resident Leanna Brown had many firsts in politics She was the first woman to serve on the Borough Council the first woman to win a seat in the New Jersey Assembly and the first woman elected to the State Senate Our Campaigns Senate 26th Legislative District History OurCampaigns com Accessed February 19 2013 Site content indicates election results for Republican Leanna Brown of Chatham Borough in her three wins for State senate including defeating Democrat Drew Britcher by 34 063 to 9 514 votes for her third Senate term in 1991 Staff Edward E Bruen A Realty Dealer First Mayor of East Orange Established Firm 53 Years Ago Dies at 78 Served Elevated Lines Secretary to Thomas Peeples of Manhattan Company Descendant of Settlers The New York Times May 12 1938 Accessed July 24 2018 Born in Chatham Mr Bruen was a descendant of settlers there and of Obadiah Bruen who went from Connecticut to Newark in 1666 Edward Everett Bruen Political Graveyard Ivers Marianne Chatham Borough Mayor Bruce Harris honored at Historical Society event The Independent Press April 13 2015 Accessed February 12 2017 When Harris and his partner Marc Boisclair moved to New Jersey in 1981 they chose Chatham Borough because of its small town character and sense of community Harris said From 2004 to 2012 Harris served on the Chatham Borough Council He was elected mayor in January 2012 Bruce Edna Along the Way The Chatham Press August 26 1960 Accessed January 27 2022 via Newspapers com Constance J McNeely of 16 N Hillside Avenue has been awarded one of the 202 freshman competitive scholarships at the University of Pennsylvania A recent Chatham High School graduate Miss McNeely will enter the College of Liberal Arts for Women next month Shepard Kollock Park Archived May 20 2013 at the Wayback Machine ChathamPatch accessed March 27 2013 Staff Reagan to Nominate Former Interior Aide As Labor Secretary The New York Times November 3 1987 Accessed March 21 2012 Mrs McLaughlin was born in 1941 in Chatham N J Neighborhood House real estate market get boost from Jets New Jersey On Line Accessed December 9 2010 Offensive lineman Nick Mangold put it another way The 24 year old and his wife have been busy in recent weeks moving into their new two story house in Chatham Borough meeting neighbors Berman Zach A man of his words Play by play is Bob Papa s work love The Star Ledger January 2 2011 Accessed March 21 2012 There s one subtle staple in every Bob Papa broadcast In the opening segment with Jen and their three sons watching and waiting in their Chatham home Papa delivered in the most understated of ways Staff Winners Of Pulitzer Prizes In Journalism Letters And The Arts The New York Times April 17 1987 Accessed March 6 2013 Mr Shipler was born in Chatham N J graduated from Dartmouth College and joined The Times as a news clerk in 1966 Two Reporters bios Havsy Jane Chatham teen to represent U S in CONCACAF U 17 championship Daily Record April 22 2019 Accessed October 1 2019 John Tolkin of Chatham has been called in to the U S Soccer under 17 national team ahead of the CONCACAF U 17 Championship at IMG Academy in Bradenton Florida Montgomery Ward The World s First Mail Order Business backed up by the Internet Archive as of May 16 2008 Accessed March 6 2013 Aaron Montgomery Ward was born on February 17 1844 in Chatham New Jersey to a family whose forebears had served as officers in the French and Indian War as well as in the American Revolution Burros Marian Alice Waters Food Revolutionary The New York Times August 4 1996 Accessed March 21 2012 Alice Louise Waters one of four daughters born in Chatham N J is no longer just a restaurateur Chez Panisse which she opened just to entertain her friends has become a shrine to the new American cooking and a mecca of the culinary world James Weichert Jr named president of Weichert Realtors nj com March 16 2017 Historical research resources EditAnderson John R Shepard Kollock Editor for Freedom Chatham New Jersey Chatham Historical Society 1975 Cunningham John T Chatham At the Crossing of the Fishawack Chatham New Jersey Chatham Historical Society 1967 Philhower Charles A Brief History of Chatham Morris County New Jersey New York Lewis Historical Publishing Company 1914 Thayer Theodore Colonial and Revolutionary Morris County The Morris County Heritage Commission government publication Vanderpoel Ambrose Ely History of Chatham New Jersey New York Charles Francis Press 1921 Reprint Chatham New Jersey Chatham Historical Society 1959 White Donald Wallace A Village at War Chatham and the American Revolution Rutherford New Jersey Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 1979 Chatham Dover New Hampshire Arcadia Publishing 1997 Historic Minisink Trail Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 8 January October 1923 199 205 Indians of the Morris County Area Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 54 October 1936 248 267 Design Guidelines Manual For Rehabilitation and Construction in the Main Street Historic District Chatham New Jersey Chatham Borough Historic Preservation Commission 1994 government publication External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chatham Borough New Jersey Official Borough of Chatham website ChathamPatch Online News Features about Chatham Borough and Chatham Township Chatham New Jersey at City Data Chatham Community Profile and Resource Links NJ HomeTownLocator Chatham Borough New Jersey at Curlie Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Chatham Borough New Jersey amp oldid 1136079248, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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