Chatham

History

The newly established, post-Revolutionary War state of New Jersey went through several stages setting out how its local governments would be structured. Townships were drawn that included villages and open land. Once boroughs became available in New Jersey as a form of local government after 1878, between 1889 and 1899 Chatham Township lost all but one of the villages drawn into it, including Chatham (settled in 1710), which had been drawn into the new township in 1806. They seceded as soon as the bourough form of government became available. Only Green Village, another early town that, like Chatham, dates to colonial times, was left under jurisdiction of "Chatham Township". On August 19, 1892, the citizens of Chatham reincorporated with another new type of village government offered as an alternative within townships by New Jersey as it developed. The village of Chatham then reincorporated for governance as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 1, 1897 regaining independence from Chatham Township.

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Largest nearby schools

• Morristown High School
  High · MORRISTOWN · 1,868 students · 13.4:1 ratio
• Chatham High School
  High · CHATHAM · 1,231 students · 12.1:1 ratio
• Frelinghuysen Middle School
  Middle · MORRISTOWN · 1,069 students · 10.7:1 ratio
• Parsippany Hills High School
  High · Morris Plains · 998 students · 9.9:1 ratio
• Brooklawn Middle School
  Middle · Parsippany · 904 students · 10.8:1 ratio
• Parsippany High School
  High · Parsippany · 886 students · 9.6:1 ratio
• Chatham Middle School
  Middle · CHATHAM · 877 students · 10.2:1 ratio
• Madison High School
  High · MADISON · 824 students · 11.6:1 ratio