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July 4^th Tours by Period Costumed Docents

FREE ADMISSION

Park in the Casa de Montecristo Lot – Route 10, East

 The Whippany Burying Yard (WBY) predates USA, New Jersey, and Morris County.

• The 1718 WBY is the oldest colonial graveyard in Morris County
  • Site of the first school and church in Morris, Warren, and Sussex
  • Site of the first militia training ground in that region
• Next to:
  • the 1715 Iron Forge – which started northwestern NJ’s iron industry
  • the future “Tuttle-Spada Museum” (1796)
•  Related to:
  • “Fordville” – the forge builder’s family homestead for 250 years
  • “Ford Mansion” – Washington’s Revolutionary War Headquarters 
• Across from:
  • The Whippany River from where Whippany’s Bell Labs stood
    • The former site of the first-ever TV broadcast (1927)
  • Route 10 from the Whippany Railroad Museum

The WBY has many who made history – some in unmarked graves.

Visit, learn of – and from them.