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The following is a small history on Millburn
Township taken from the Burgdorff ERA Realtors® Short
Hills Office Brochure "Extraordinary PROFESSIONALS
Exceeding Expectations".
Millburn
Township owes much of its character to
Stewart Hartshorn, who bought a 1,550-acre
tract in 1877 and founded a planned community
he named Short Hills. Rather than laying out
a grid of roads and lots, he followed the terrain
and often adjusted roads to avoid felling trees.
He built more than 50 houses on 2- to 5-acre
lots.  Many
of the original Hartshorn houses, built of
wood and blue traprock in several styles, including
Greek Revival and Victorian, are still standing.
The original lots have now been subdivided
into half-acre to one-acre sites. Houses with
six to seven bedrooms on one-acre lots are
now priced from $1.2 million to over $3 million.
The Morris & Essex Railroad, built in the late 1830's to haul coal from Pennsylvania to New
York City, Passed through Millburn and spurred its growth. By 1872, when Hartshorn sought his
town site, Millburn was already a commuter suburb of New York City with its own train station,
which Hartshorn augmented with a second station in Short Hills.
Both Millburn and Short Hills have a delightful mixture of interesting
architecture and styles. The Wyoming section, on the southeast side of town includes Tudors,
Colonials, historic farmhouses and Victorians. The South Mountain area has many Tudors and English
Colonials and borders on Taylor Park. A variety of styles are found in the Country Club section,
which was built around 1950. The Glenwood section is walking distance to the trainfrom the south
side of the station and the homes are mostly colonials built in the late 1930's. The Old Short
Hills neighborgood, located on the north side of the train station, has winding tree-lined streets
with larger properties and many of the most prestigious homes in town. Homes in Millburn/Short
Hills are available begining in the low &200s and up to $5 million. The Mid-Town Direct train
line (started in 1996) has increased demand for housing all along this route.
 The Millburn
Township Public School System has a reputation as one of the finest
in New Jersey. It has five K-5 schools. The students go on the Millburn
Middle School on Old Short Hills Road and then to Millburn High School
on Millburn Avenue. Last Year the high school sent 97 percent of its
graduates on to higher education. Graduating classes regularly include
numerous National Merit Scholarship winners and finalists and, upon
occasion, a Presidential Scholar and finalists.
Two downtowns, created around the two ends of Millburn Avenue, have convenience
and service business, including ice cream parlors, beauty shops, hardware stores and several
interesting restaurants, galeries, gift stores and banks. The million-square foot Short Hills
Mall, at Route 24 and JFK Parkway, is well known for a wide variety of luxury stores and across
from the mall is the 300-room Hilton.
The most widely used recreational spot in the township is the 36-acre
Gero Park off White Oak Ridge Road. It has a par-three, nine hole golf course, the town pool,
four tennis courts and three baseball diamonds.
 A
popular township area is the 16-acre Cora
Hartshorn Arboretum and bird sanctuary, developed by the daughter
of Stewart Hartshorn on Forest Drive. The
Paper Mill Playhouse, on Brookside Drive, one of the Country's
best known regional theathers, offers musicals, plays and children's
events.
The Township is governed by five elected committee members who serve
three-year terms and annually choose one of their own as mayor of Millburn. In keeping with Stewart
Hartshorn's original tree preservation efforts, the town has a full-time forester. Before trees
may be cut down, he must issue a permit, and he also advises residents on tree planting and care.
Timothy P. Gordon, the Millburn Business administrator, says the township has more than 1,000
trees that are more than 200 years old.
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