Editing Morris County, New Jersey (section)

==Arts and culture==
[[File:Mayo.Performing.Arts..JPG|thumb|[[Mayo Performing Arts Center]]]]
[[File:MM Museum exterior.jpg|thumb|[[Morris Museum]]]]
[[File:METC Madison library jeh.jpg|thumb|[[Museum of Early Trades and Crafts]]]]
[[File:Craftsman Farms.jpg|thumb|[[Craftsman Farms]]]]
[[File:WHIPPANY RAILWAY MUSEUM, MORRIS COUNTY.jpg|thumb|[[Whippany Railway Museum]]]]
[[File:The Alliance, Morristown Green, NJ.jpg|thumb|The Alliance on [[Morristown Green|the Green]]]]
[[File:ACORN HALL, MORRIS COUNTY.jpg|thumb|[[Acorn Hall]], headquarters of the Morris County Historical Society]]
* [[Mayo Performing Arts Center]] is a former Walter Reade movie theater originally constructed in 1937 that has been converted into a 1,302-seat performing arts center.<ref>[http://www.mayoarts.org/about/theatre-history Theatre History], [[Mayo Performing Arts Center]]. Accessed July 25, 2016.</ref>
* [[Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey]] is one of 25 professional theatres in the state. Serving 100,000 adults and children annually, it is New Jersey's only professional theatre company dedicated to Shakespeare's canon and other classic masterworks.<ref>[http://www.shakespearenj.org/AboutUs/mission.html Mission & History], [[Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey]]. Accessed November 28, 2017.</ref> The F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre, the company's main stage, is a short walk from Madison's downtown shopping district.<ref>[https://www.shakespearenj.org/PlanYourVisit/madison.html Historic Madison], [[Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey]]. Accessed November 10, 2019. "The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey is located in the charming town of Madison.... The vibrant downtown is comprised of unique shops, tree-lined streets, art galleries and more than 40 restaurants and eateries-all within a ten-minute walk from the Theatre's Main Stage."</ref>
* [[Pax Amicus Theatre|Pax Amicus Castle Theatre]] is a community theater founded in 1970 that produces a full year-round season of [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] and [[off-Broadway]] revivals, professional productions of works by [[Shakespeare]] and [[Edgar Allan Poe]], a program devoted to children's theater, and special events throughout the year. The architecture of the theater is designed to look like a medieval castle.<ref>{{cite web |title=The History of Pax Amicus Castle Theatre |url=http://www.paxamicus.com/history.htm |website=PaxAmicus.com}}</ref>
* [[Acorn Hall]] is a 1853 [[Victorian Italianate]] mansion and home to the Morris County Historical Society. Donated to the historical society in 1971 by actress and political activist [[Mary Crane Hone]], the mansion retained much of its original furnishings and accouterments as it remained in the same family for over a century. It is currently operated as a museum and is the headquarters of the '''Morris County Historical Society'''.<ref>[http://morriscountyhistory.org/morris-county-historical-society-history/ History], Morris County Historical Society. Accessed January 4, 2018. "Mary Crane Hone presented the Society with Acorn Hall and five acres of surrounding property in 1971. Built in 1853, Acorn Hall was the home of several generations of the Crane-Hone family."</ref>
* [[Morris Museum]] is the second-largest museum in [[New Jersey]] at {{convert|75524|sqft}} and has actively been running since 1913 and was formally incorporated in 1943. The museum's permanent displays include rocks, minerals, fossils, animal mounts, a model railroad, and Native American crafts, pottery, carving, basketry and textiles.<ref>[http://www.morrismuseum.org/mission-history/ Mission and History], [[Morris Museum]]. Accessed July 25, 2016.</ref>
* [[Museum of Early Trades and Crafts]] was founded in 1969 in the former site of the Madison Public Library to house a collection of over 8,000 tools and artifacts used in New Jersey before 1860 that had been collected by Agnes and Edgar Land.<ref name=NYT1996>Zimmer, William. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01EEDD1F39F932A3575AC0A960958260 " Remaking a Treasure Chest of Tools and Trades"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', September 1, 1996. Accessed September 24, 2007.</ref>
* [[Craftsman Farms|Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms]] is an early 20th Century farm/farm-school designed in the [[American Craftsman|Craftsman]] architectural style built by [[Gustav Stickley]], an American furniture manufacturer, design leader, publisher of [[The Craftsman (magazine)|The Craftsman]], and a leading voice in the American [[Arts and Crafts movement]]. Craftsman Farms currently operates as a historic house museum showcasing Stickley’s original designs and furnishings.<ref>https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/f3f8d256-80d4-4478-ae68-2468f20d8693 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nj.gov/dca/njht/funded/sitedetails/craftsmanfarms.shtml#:~:text=Craftsman%20Farms%20is%20a%20National,and%20Crafts%20movement%20in%20America. | title=Craftsman Farms }}</ref><ref>https://visitnj.org/nj-museums/stickley-museum-craftsman-farms {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref>
* [[Whippany Railway Museum]] is a [[railway museum]] established in 1965 that is dedicated to preserving the heritage and history of the railroads of New Jersey through the restoration, preservation, interpretation and operation of historic railroad equipment and artifacts from New Jersey and the immediate vicinity.<ref>https://visitnj.org/whippany-railway-museum {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref>
* [[Morristown Green]] is a historic park at the center of town which was the old town "common" or "green". It is the site of several Revolutionary War and Civil war monuments, and is surrounded by historic churches, the colonial county-courthouse, and a shopping and restaurant district.
* [[Morristown National Historical Park]] — Four historic sites around Morristown associated with the American Revolutionary War, including [[Jockey Hollow]], a park that includes a visitor center, the Revolution-era Wick farm, encampment site of [[George Washington]]'s Continental Army, and around 25 miles of hiking trails, and the [[Ford Mansion|Washington's Headquarters & Ford Mansion]], a Revolution-era Georgian-style mansion used by George Washington as his headquarters during the Jockey Hollow encampment.
** [[Jockey Hollow]], a few miles south of [[Morristown, New Jersey]] along [[U.S. Route 202 in New Jersey|Route 202]] in [[Harding Township, New Jersey|Harding Township]], was the site of a [[Continental Army]] encampment. It was from here that the entire [[Pennsylvania]] contingent mutinied and later, 200 New Jersey soldiers attempted to emulate them.<ref>{{cite book |last=Flexner |first=James Thomas |date=April 1984 |title=Washington: The Indispensable Man |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0XpUJXOIc2kC |page=154 |publisher=Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated |isbn=9780451156433 }}</ref>
** [[Fort Nonsense (Morristown, New Jersey)|Fort Nonsense]] occupied a high hilltop overlooking Morristown, and is believed to have been the site of a signal fire or [[smoke signal]], along with earthworks.  It was originally built at the order of General [[George Washington]] in 1777 for use during the [[American Revolutionary War]] that began in 1775 and was ended in 1783 by the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris]].
** [[Ford Mansion]] in Morristown was the site of the "hard winter" (December 1779 – May 1780) quarters of [[George Washington]] and the [[Continental Army]]. That winter remains the coldest on record for New Jersey. Theodosia Ford, widow of Jacob Ford Jr., and her four children shared their household with Washington, his staff, including [[Alexander Hamilton]], their servants and sometimes their family members. [[Martha Washington]] traveled from [[Mount Vernon]] to Morristown to spend the winter with her husband.
** [[Morristown National Historical Park|Washington's Headquarters Museum]], the adjacent museum is open to the public Wednesday thru Sunday from September–June and seven days a week from July- August from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM.  The museum has three exhibit rooms and a sales area. A video production, ''Morristown: Where America Survived'' ([[New Jersey Network]], 2009) is shown. The Ford Mansion is shown only by guided tour, which begins in the museum. 
** [[New Jersey Brigade Encampment Site]] is located south of Jockey Hollow in [[Bernardsville, New Jersey|Bernardsville]] in [[Somerset County, New Jersey|Somerset County]] and extending into [[Harding Township, New Jersey|Harding Township]]; it was the encampment for approximately 1,300 [[Continental Army]] soldiers over the 1779-1780 winter.
* [[St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Morristown, New Jersey)|St. Peter's Episcopal Church]] is a large [[McKim, Mead & White|McKim Mead and White]] church with a bell tower, fine stained glass and medieval furnishings. The congregation has roots going back to the 1760s and was officially founded in 1827, with the current building consecrated in 1911 featuring [[Gothic Revival architecture|gothic-revival architecture]], medieval interior and fine stained glass. St. Peter's congregation has traditionally worshipped in the [[High church|High Church]] tradition.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=A History of St. Peter's Church: Morristown New Jersey 1760-2005|last=J. Elliot Lindsley and Faith W. Eckler|publisher=The Rector, Wardens and Vestry of St. Peter's Episcopal Church|year=1952|location=Morristown, NJ}}</ref>
* [[Speedwell Ironworks]] is a [[National Historic Landmark]] and museum at the site where the [[electric telegraph]] was first presented to the public, on January 11, 1838. Speedwell Ironworks also provided most of the machinery for the [[SS Savannah]], the first steamship to cross the [[Atlantic Ocean]].<ref>[https://www.morristourism.org/directory/historic-speedwell/ Historic Speedwell], Morris County Tourism Bureau. Accessed April 1, 2019. "This eight-acre National Historic Landmark has established its place in world history several times over. It was here in 1838, at the start of the Industrial Revolution, that Samuel F.B. Morse and Alfred Vail demonstrated a perfected electromagnetic telegraph to the public."</ref>

===Sports===
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The [[United States Equestrian Team]], the international equestrian team for the United States, was founded in 1950 at the Coates estate on Van Beuren Road in Morristown.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uqy6CgAAQBAJ&q=international+equestrian+team+for+the+United+States+1950+Coates+estate+on+van+Beuren+Road&pg=PA193|title=Animals In Human Society: Amazing Creatures Who Share Our Planet|last=Moorehead|first=Daniel|date=November 3, 2015 |publisher=UPA|isbn=9780761866770|language=en}}</ref>

Morristown has a cricketing club, the first in North America.<ref>[http://www.indoorcricketusa.com/ Home Page], Indoor Cricket USA.</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Cohen|first=Ben|date=February 5, 2013|title=A Cricket Paradise in Jersey|language=en-US|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|url=https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323807004578284392346975334.html|access-date=January 29, 2022|issn=0099-9660}}</ref>

The [[Mennen Arena]] in [[Morris Township, New Jersey|Morris Township]], facilitated by The Morris County Park Commission, hosts various sporting events from ice hockey, figure skating, indoor football and outdoor rugby, to professional wrestling, [[Mixed martial arts|MMA]] and [[Shrine Circus]].