Editing Netcong, New Jersey (section)

==History==
Netcong received its name from the [[Musconetcong River]], named by the [[Lenape]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] and meaning "grass creek", "swamp stream", "rapid stream" or "clear stream place".<ref>[http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=18662 Netcong, New Jersey community profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729171452/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=18662 |date=July 29, 2019 }}, [[Epodunk]]. Accessed November 5, 2007.</ref><ref>Hutchinson, Viola L. [http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf#page=22 ''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names''], New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed September 9, 2015.</ref><ref>[[Henry Gannett|Gannett, Henry]]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA218 ''The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States''], p. 218. [[United States Government Printing Office]], 1905. Accessed September 9, 2015.</ref> Along with the river, the proximity of the old Morris and Sussex Turnpike, which passed through the region shortly after 1801, and the coming of the [[Morris Canal]], in 1831, made the site a favorable one for development.

After becoming a borough, the residents had to elect the first governing body. The first mayor was Abraham J. Drake, elected November 14, 1894.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/152584160/ "Abraham J. Drake Netcong, N. J."], ''[[New-York Tribune]]'', March 22, 1919. Accessed January 11, 2021, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "Abraham J. Drake, first Mayor and first Postmaster of Netcong, died last night of apoplexy."</ref> A census of Netcong taken July 1895 showed a population of 877 people.<ref name=NJCensusData/>

Netcong derived much of its business from the [[Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad]], which had its last stop in Morris County in the heart of the borough. The DL&W's Sussex Branch to [[Branchville, New Jersey|Branchville]] also stopped at Netcong Station, with the Sussex Branch coming into the opposite side of the station from where [[NJ Transit]]'s line is today. The big railroad roundhouse in [[Port Morris, New Jersey|Port Morris]] also supplied many jobs for the town residents.<ref>[http://www.netcong.org/260565.html Netcong: A Brief History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060907053723/http://www.netcong.org/260565.html |date=2006-09-07 }}, Netcong Borough. Accessed August 3, 2006.</ref>

In 1968, [[AT&T]] announced that the company would be building a two-story building in the borough at the bottom of a hole {{convert|47|ft}} underground. The facility, designed to connect a cable running between [[Boston]] and [[Miami]], was designed to withstand a nuclear attack and continue 24-hour operations for as long as three weeks using supplies and generating capacity on the site.<ref>O'Kane, Lawrence. [https://www.nytimes.com/1967/03/30/archives/news-of-realty-att-building-underground-structure-in-jersey-to-be.html "News Of Realty: A.T.&T. Building; Underground Structure in Jersey to Be Bombproof"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 30, 1967. Accessed January 11, 2021. "A new communications center designed to withstand nuclear blasts is being built in a 47-foot-deep hole in the ground in Netcong, N.J., for the Long Lines Department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=ATT Netcong N.J.|url=http://coldwar-ct.com/ATT_Netcong_N.html|access-date=2021-07-16|website=coldwar-ct}}</ref>