VOL. 32, NO. 1 Winter/Spring 2010

(see

Save the Date

on page 2)(see

History Grants

on page 2)

he Morris County HeritageCommission (MCHC) HistoryRe-Grant Program has awardeda total of $17,327 in re-grant fundingto eight organizations in the countyfor General Operating Support (GOS)and history projects.Funding for the re-grant programwas awarded to the Commission asa GOS grant from the New JerseyHistorical Commission. The MCHC

re-grants the funds to non-prot or

-ganizations based in Morris Countywith collections or programming re-lating to the history of the county orthe state. The Heritage Commissionhas received funding for the re-grantprogram from the New Jersey Histori-cal Commission since 2001.The Boonton Holmes Public Li-brary received an award of $1,000 fora photograph archival project andthe Chester Library received $2,500for an

Observer-Tribune

newspaperdigitization project. The RockawayBorough Library was awarded $3,027toward restoration and preservationof town founder Stephen J. Jackson’sportrait.The Heritage Commission alsoawarded the Morris County Histori-cal Society $1,500 for textile exhibitmaterials and the Kinnelon HistoricalSociety $1,500 to continue the conser-vation and preservation of the Scovillephotograph collection. The Washing-ton Township Historical Society wasawarded $2,000 for archival storage

Heritage Commission Awards History Grants

March 3, 2010 — Morris CountyCultural Center — 6:30-8:30 p.m.

oes your organization needhelp with archival materials?The Morris County HeritageCommission and the WashingtonTownship Historical Society will co-sponsor a workshop, “Practical Tipsfor the Care of Historical Documents,”to help historical societies and otherorganizations and individuals care for

SAVE THE DATE:Practical Tips for theCare of HistoricalDocuments Workshop

and collections inventory and man-agement materials.The Township of Roxbury HistoricAdvisory Committee was awardeda grant of $4,500 for a consultant toprepare a historic district nominationto the National and State Registers ofHistoric Places. Macculloch Hall His-torical Museum was awarded $1,300for ADA compliance equipment.More information about the re-grant program or any of the otherprograms sponsored by the MorrisCounty Heritage Commission maybe obtained by calling the commissionat (973) 829-8117, visiting our websiteat

MorrisHeritage.org

, or by e-mail at

Heritage@co.morris.nj.us

The Morris County Historical Society wasone of eight re-grant recipients in 2010. Additional conservation forms will be purchased to properly display and protect costumes from its collection.

Commissioners’ Corner

e live within one of the most important historical locationsin our country: for two long winters, Morris County wasthe heart and soul of the American Revolution. Our townsand villages are studded with historic architectural and archaeologi-cal treasures that contribute to our unique quality of life.It was a recognition of these historical riches, and an acute aware-ness of the many threats to their preservation, that inspired the Boardof Chosen Freeholders to create the Morris County Heritage Commis-sion forty years ago. The Heritage Commission’s mission is to preserve

and interpret Morris County’s past for the benet of its residents. We

believe that promoting awareness and public education are the bestpaths to saving our cultural treasures for future generations.The Commission has developed a wide range of resources tosupport this mission. First and foremost, the Commission collects,preserves, and maintains the historic archives that document our past– from slave records to saloon licenses. It also publishes a newsletterand historic tour guides, places markers at historic sites, presents ed-ucational programs, and offers grant opportunities for local historicorganizations.Although budgets are tight at present, the Commission will doits share of belt-tightening, and its work will go on. We will continueto serve the people of Morris County through the dedication of ourvolunteer commissioners and the superlative work of County Archi-vist Peg Shultz.Larry Fast, Chairmantheir historical documents.The program will be presented by

certied archivist Joseph M. Ciccone,

who has extensive experience manag-ing both library and archival opera-tions. He has conducted workshopsfor the Mid-Atlantic Region ArchiveConference (MARAC) on both copy-right law and oral history and servedon the board of the New York Archi-vists Roundtable (NYART).Topics covered will include col-lection preservation, environment,storage, reformatting/digitization,collection access, arrangement and de-scription, and funding opportunities

for nonprot archival collections.

Anyone interested in caring for his-torical documents should attend. Thisincludes historical societies, historygroups, library staff and volunteers,keepers of family history materials,historians from houses of worship withcollections, and genealogy groups.The program will be held Wednes-day, March 3, 2010, from 6:30 to 8:30p.m. at the Morris County CulturalCenter. Registration, refreshments,and networking will begin at 5:30 p.m.In the event of inclement weather, theprogram will be held at the same timeand place on March 4. The CulturalCenter is located on Mendham Road(old Route 24) west of Morristown andeast of Mendham. For directions, visitthe Morris County Heritage Commis-sion website

www.morrisheritage.org.

There is no charge for the work-shop. Registration is being handledby the Washington Township His-torical Society and can be done byemail, web, postal mail, or telephone.A registration form will be posted tothe Heritage Commission website.Email: info@wthsnj.org; web:

http:// www.wthsnj.org

and click on “Events”;postal mail: WTHS, P.O. Box 189, LongValley, NJ 07853; and telephone: (908)876-9696. For email and mail provideyour name, email, telephone, and or-ganization/institution. The deadlinefor registration is March 1. Space is

adequate but availability is rst come,rst served.

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Save the Date

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History Grants

on page 1)

The Kinnelon Historical Commission re-grant award was used to conserve and preserve theScoville photograph collection. The images depict social occasions, landscapes, and aerialviews of Kinnelon in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

he Sanborn Map Company re insurance maps have been archivally

housed, cataloged, and scanned by Princeton University and now all16,000 sheets are available online. The project began in 2003 and was ac-celerated in 2009 with a grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission.The Sanborn Map Company is the oldest mapping company in the UnitedStates. Founded in 1866, the company created detailed building maps of citiesand towns all across the country, primarily for use by insurance companies.These maps also have been used extensively by local government agencies for

over a century in conducting their daily operations efciently. Approximately

12,000 American cities and towns are chronicled in the company’s collectionof over one million maps. As a result of its history, the name “Sanborn” hasbecome synonymous with this kind of map. Genealogists, local history buffs,city planners, architects, and countless others have been drawn to the qualityof detail found in them.The maps are listed in alphabetical order by county, then by municipality,and then chronologically. All the Sanborn records are also available by search-ing Princeton University library’s online catalog.To view the Sanborn collection on line, go to

http://library.princeton.edu/librar-

ies/frestone/rbsc/aids/sanborn/sanborn-web.xls

or to view Morris County maps, goto

http://library.princeton.edu/libraries/frestone/rbsc/aids/sanborn/morris

New Jersey History Resource NowAvailable Online

1953 Morristown Sanborn Fire Insurance map from the collection at the Morris County Library

New JerseyHistory Online Journal

he journal

New Jersey History

,founded as the

Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society

in 1845 and published under the di-rection of the New Jersey HistoricalSociety until2005, will berelaunchedunder theeditorial di-rection of his-torians at theNew JerseyHistorical Commission, Kean Uni-versity, and the New Jersey HistoricalSociety. This peer-reviewed journalwill be published online twice a yearby the Rutgers University Library.

New Jersey History

is also supportedby the New Jersey Digital Highway,which will provide an additional ac-cess point for the journal from itswebsite and will preserve the digitalversion of the journal via the RU Corepreservation platform at Rutgers Uni-versity Library. Rutgers UniversityPress will help market the new jour-nal, enabling it to reach the broadestpossible audience.The editorial staff invites schol-ars, students, and writers to submitscholarly articles aimed at a non-spe-cialized audience for its forthcomingissues. Essays from all disciplines inthe humanities such as law, litera-ture, political science, anthropology,archaeology, material culture, culturalstudies, and social and political histo-ry with a focus on any aspect of New Jersey’s history are welcome. The staffis also interested in documents, pho-tographs, and other primary sourcematerial that could be published withannotations. For additional informa-tion about the journal please contactPeter Mickulas at the New Jersey His-torical Commission via email at

peter.mickulas@sos.state.nj.us.