In 1760, the first schoolhouse in the Montville township was built out of logs in Pine Brook. In 1712, William Penn bought a tract of land that included parts of modern-day Pequannock and Montville that included Pine Brook. In 1756, the Dutch Reformed Church was founded in Old Boonton and moved to Montville in the early 1800s after land was purchased in Montville for a parsonage. Route 202, connected various farms with Montville's first gristmill, sawmill and tanneries. As part of New Netherland, the town was originally called "Uyle-Kill" (the Dutch spelling of "Owl-Kill"), a name given to the creek and valley, which ran through the area.īy the 1740s, the settlement had grown in size and construction of the first road was begun. Dutch settlement ĭutch farmers from New Amsterdam (now part of New York City) entered the area in 1710. On October 12, the Morris County Parks Commission holds Lenape Day at the Great Swamp to celebrate the culture and history of Ramapough Lenape people.
The Lenape tribes maintained peace and no significant battles were recorded in the area. It was originally settled by the Lenape tribes of the Munsee dialect. Over 10,000 years ago, the area was part of the Lenapehoking. History Entering Montville Native settlement In 2009, Money magazine named Montville the 21st best place to live in the United States the 2nd highest ranked community in New Jersey. The township was ranked 17th in the magazine's 2011 ranking of the "Best Places to Live", the highest-ranked place in New Jersey, after having been ranked 13th in 2007. In Money magazine's 2013 Best Places to Live rankings, Montville was ranked 13th in the nation, the second-highest among the three places in New Jersey included in the top 50 list. NJ Transit rail service is available at the Towaco station along the Montclair-Boonton Line. It includes the sections of Montville, Pine Brook and Towaco. Montville was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 11, 1867, from portions of Pequannock Township. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 22,450, an increase of 922 (+4.3%) from the 2010 census count of 21,528, which in turn reflected an increase of 689 (+3.3%) from the 20,839 counted in the 2000 census. Montville is a township in Morris County, in the U.S.
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