Records from Morristown’s Community Theatre are open to researchers

Constructed in 1937, the Community Theatre served as Morristown’s single-screen movie theater exclusively presenting first runs of films. It opened on December 23, 1937 with a screening of Nothing Sacred, starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March. The theater briefly showed

Records of New Jersey landscape architect and Morris County arts and crafts home builders.

The working papers of one of New Jersey’s notable landscape architects, Joan Shapiro Greentree, are now open to researchers in the History Center’s reading room. Born in Brooklyn, Joan Shapiro (1929-2012) graduated high school at sixteen years old and briefly

Picatinny Arsenal newspaper acquisition and updated Morris School District records

One aspect of preserving New Jersey history involves identifying weaknesses in our collections. While reviewing materials related to the state’s military history, Archivist Jeff Moy noted a lack of detailed information on Picatinny Arsenal, which is one of Morris County’s

2024 Teen Summer Reading: Book clubs, crafts, and more!

Teen summer reading programs at the Morristown & Morris Twp. Library run from July 1 – August 7. Participants can earn raffle tickets for summer reading prizes  by attending book clubs, craft programs, and playing book bingo. For more details,

Records from the Andrew Bell Cobb Family and the Howell Family now open to researchers

Two collections of papers related to longtime Morris County families were recently processed are now open to researchers. The Andrew Bell Cobb Family Papers concern the business and social affairs of a well-known Morris County family. Andrew B. Cobb (1804-1873)