Mount Freedom, New Jersey Explained

Mount Freedom, New Jersey
Settlement Type:Unincorporated community
Pushpin Map:USA New Jersey Morris County#USA New Jersey#USA
Pushpin Label:Mount Freedom
Pushpin Map Caption:Mount Freedom's location in Morris County (Inset: Morris County in New Jersey)
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: United States
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Morris
Subdivision Type3:Township
Subdivision Name3:Randolph
Elevation M:269
Elevation Ft:883
Coordinates:40.8261°N -74.5703°W
Postal Code Type:ZIP code
Postal Code:07869
Blank Name:GNIS feature ID
Blank Info:0878536
Unit Pref:imperial

Mount Freedom is an unincorporated community located within Randolph in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[1] The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP code 07869.

As of the 2000 United States Census, the population for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 07869 was 24,452.

History

For much of the 20th century, Mount Freedom was a resort community appealing to Jewish vacationers, with as many as 10,000 visitors from New York City flocking to the many hotels and dozens of bungalow colonies in the area. With the increasing ease of highway travel to the larger resorts in the Catskill Mountains and the declining cost of air travel, most of the hotels closed down by the end of the 1970s.[2] [3]

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.nj.gov/infobank/localnames.txt Locality Search
  2. https://www.newjerseyhills.com/the-rise-of-the-resorts-in-randolph-twp/article_c1fcb375-d552-578e-9622-43edc487f9cf.html "The rise of the resorts in Randolph Twp."
  3. https://www.randolphnj.org/456/Our-Grand-Hotels Our Grand Hotels