& 1871 I■ 1971 N i\l Historical Journal [V r. Alan J. Fulton All Purpose Clubs Christmas Clubs Personal Loans Auto Loans Collateral Loans Safe Deposit Boxes BankA mericard Electric Bill Payments Savings Accounts Banking By Mail Home Improvement Loans Telephone Bill Payments Business Loans Lock Box Travelers Checks Certificates of Deposit Money Orders 24 Hour Depository Checking Accounts Mortgage Loans U.S. Savings Bonds CmZENS "U !SSAL OF MORRIS COUNTY • Succasunna • Netcong • Budd Lake • Landing MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION MOUNT OLIVE TOWNSHIP HISTORICAL JOURNAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It would be a near-impossibility to list here all the people who contributed to making this document possible. We wish to sincerely thank all those who gave of their time and talents. DEDICATION This centennial historical journal is humbly dedicated to the memory of Louis Nelson, a township committeeman who lost his life in an automobile accident during the midst of our centennial year. ADVERTISERS We hope the citizens of Mount Olive Township will patronize the advertisers who were interested enough in our centennial to purchase advertisements in this journal. MRS. ADELAIDE BEECHER Editorial Chairman HANS DEDEN Layout and Design THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON January 22, 19 71 TO THE PEOPLE OF MT. OLIVE, NEW JERSEY The observance of your one hundredth anni­ versary is an occasion of deep pride for you as well as for the nation. The high purpose and vital community spirit that are reflected in your eventful history are in the best tradition of our American way of life. Armed with these same qualities in the years ahead, I know that you will strive to be in the vanguard of constructive civic accomplish­ ment. I welcome your full partnership in the demanding tasks we face as a nation, and in the good that promises to come from our united efforts. S t a t e o k N e w J e r s e y Office of the Governor Tbenton W illiam T. C a h il l G o v e r n o r The Centennial Anniversary of Mt. Olive Township is one in which all residents of Budd Lake, Flanders, Drakestown, Bartley, Smithtown, Mt. Olive and Waterloo can take pride. Since the township was incorporated on March 22, 1871 it has grown and prospered. Yet in its growth, each town comprising the township has retained those scenic and esthetic qualities which residents have found attractive and desirable. But on a larger scale, the township has grown to be an integral part of New Jersey. May I wish the township and its residents continued prosperity. Sincerely, MT. OLIVE TOWNSHIP CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE WILLIAM G. PORPHY, Chairman 238 SAND SHORE ROAD • BUDD LAKE, NEW JERSEY 07828 Telephone (201) 347-5591 Dear Friends: It has indeed been a rewarding experience to serve as centennial chairman. When our centennial celebration ends, I will be left with a lifetime of memories. During the past months I have come to know many of our citizens. And, during this time I have certainly found out who the talkers were and who the doers were. It is the doers who I wish to sin­ cerely thank. They are the ones who helped make our centennial a success. I must say that as you read this historical journal you will be reading the works of a fine lady who gave us total dedication. Surely, many people were responsible for this document, but it was Mrs. Adelaide Beecher who made it a reality. We all owe her a round of applause. It is hoped that this journal will become a keepsake and that it will always bring you fond memories. Memories of our centennial--a centennial completely run by the citizens of Mount Olive Township. Very truly yours, Centennial Chairman TOWNSHIP of MOUNT OLIVE MUNICIPAL BUILDING ROUTE 46 BUDD LAKE, NEW JERSEY 07828 Mount Olive Township in this year 1971 celebrates its Centennial. And in looking back now on the 100 years past which measure our Township's history we can celebrate them with pride. They have been years of purpose - of high purpose - in which we have moved forward from the pioneering dreams and hard struggles of our forebears; sometimes boldly, wisely, and rapidly; sometimes timidly, foolishly, and haltingly, but always forward. Forward through the ten decades which have changed our world more than any in man's history, which indeed have given us a new world. And it is meet that we should pause to celebrate this milestone, and to look back with both pride and graditude. But a celebration of the past which is only that, a looking backward, is a sterile exercise. Celebrating our past we must salute our future. As that was a century of purpose we must dedicate ourselves to making this a century of progress. Learning from the mistakes and missteps of our past, and cherishing the good things that past brought us, we move forward into our future with confidence, with determination, and with dedication. We know full well that this future, to which that past was but a prelude, as it unfolds and as we work to help it grow and flower, may well bring changes more wonderous than we celebrate today, more indeed 'than man's imagination ever dreamed of'. We salute the future and we pledge our help to make it a good and rich and rewarding one for all. Sincerely, Mayor Paul J. Amadio Natural History of Mount Olive the multitude of ages that have come and gone since the epoch Township of the glaciers. The fossilized pollen that occurs in the strata of the bog contain the key to past climates and conditions of THE CARVING OF THE HIGHLANDS Eastern United States. By dating the different strata and then Two billion years ago in the Precambrian era the great seas identifying the pollen species of each level, scientists can dis­ created the highlands of New Jersey. Great blocks of limestone, cover the change in vegetation from era to era. The vegetation shale and sandstone were crushed together to form one of the indicates the various climatic conditions. By this method we oldest land masses in the world. By 600,000,000 years ago these know that 10,000 years ago the climax vegetation was pine and massive gneiss rock formations had eroded into a flat feature­ because of pine’s environmental needs, the climate was less surface (peneplain) which once again was covered by the cold and moist.4 sea. Then in the cretaceous period, approximately 135,000,000 Budd Lake has also presented scientists with riddles. The most years ago a great uplift raised the peneplain above the sea and outstanding is the presence of Black Spruce in the bog. Black left the surface, now covered with coastal sediments and Spruce is a northern (boreal) forest species and should not weathered rock, exposed to the turbulent erosional forces of grow in the deciduous forest of New Jersey. The most probable the atmosphere. explanation is that the Wisconsin glacier carried Black Spruce Streams meandered across the featureless surface and gradu­ seeds south. ally cut through the coastal sediments to the impenetrable Budd Lake played a different role in history. It has been the parent rock, dissecting the peneplain, which had at one time life source of Mount Olive Township. From the lake the sloped continuously from the Kittatinny Mountains to the peoples of Mount Olive Township have fished, swum and shore, into rolling ridges and valleys. Only a few mountains sailed. In fact in the 19th and early 20th centuries the ice from of harder rock, such as Schooley’s Mountain remained.1 Budd Lake was sold commercially for refrigeration purposes. After the erosion of the peneplain, two periods in geologic CREATION OF THE SOIL history shaped the physiography of the highlands. In the first, The terminal moraine of the Wisconsin glacier cut Mount the Tertiary (occurred from 63,000,000 to 1,000,000 years ago), Olive Township in half. The northern section, where the glacier lava flow, climatic change and erosion by wind and water had reached, is covered with the assorted rocks that had been eroded the land. Then about 1,000,000 years ago the quater­ transported by the glacier. The southern section of the town­ nary period began. In this period in an epoch called the Pleistocene, the final great carving of the highlands began. ship was not covered by the glacial debris. The time of the great glaciers had come. The soils of Mount Olive Township fluctuate in the same THE GLACIERS MOLD MT. OLIVE TOWNSHIP manner as the type of rock coverage. North and west of Budd Lake the soil has developed from transported materials and Three periods of glaciation occurred in Mount Olive Town­ consists of uneven particles which were scraped together by ship. The glaciers used ice and water to carve valleys and the glaciation. The deposit varies greatly in depth. The soil scrape and redeposit the land. The Illinoian and Wisconsin . glacials, the two most recent glacial periods, had the greatest effect upon the township. Old deposits from the Illinoian can be found west of Budd Lake. The more recent deposits and the greatest sculpturing of the area was done by the Wisconsin glaciers about 40,000 years ago. The grinding erosional force Cherokee of this last great glacier left the region buried by a sea of rocks which varied from massive boulders to fine clay. Even the Trading Post impenetrable parent rock was cut by the overwhelming strength of the glaciers.2 SCHOOLEY’S MOUNTAIN Genuine Indian Moccasins & Crafts Two outstanding features of Mount Olive Township arose from this dynamic geological history.