Madison Borough Hall is located at 50 Kings Road, Madison, NJ 07940.
Phone: 973‑593‑3042.
Neighborhoods
Madison Borough [1] is a historic, family-oriented community located in eastern Morris County along the busy New Jersey Transit rail line into New York City. It is proud of its thriving downtown, tree-lined streets, and the rich cultural and educational opportunities offered by Drew University and Fairleigh Dickinson University. Loantaka Brook Reservation and Morris County Park Commission's Traction Line Trail are located within Madison. Walking to the local weekly Farmers Market, or along the path which encircles Giralda Farms, is enjoyed by many Borough residents.
Madison's parks are busy, and in the last ten years the Borough has acquired nearly 50 acres next to the Borough's High School along Ridgedale Avenue. Previously known as "the Pit" the Borough had been leasing 9 acres for sports games and practices. Following establishment of the Borough's Open Space Trust Fund in 2004, officials negotiated to acquire not only the 9 acres, but the surrounding 40 acres for recreation and natural protection. Its flat topography made it an ideal site for playing fields and related sports infrastructure. The Borough purchased and preserved this property in 2008. The Madison Recreation and Conservation Complex, or MRC, is now the Borough's premier recreational park, and indicative of the caliber and level of importance Madison's leaders and residents place on open space preservation and recreation for their community.
Madison as described in 1939 [2]
Madison, a solidly built, suburban town with a rich historical background, could pass for a New England village. It is enlivened by the presence of Drew University and Mrs. Marcellus Hartley Dodge. Madison's million-dollar municipal building, on the other side of the Lackawanna Railroad embankment, is the gift of Mrs. Dodge who is the former Geraldine Rockefeller, daughter of William Rockefeller and a niece of the late John D. Rockefeller. The building is a memorial to her son, Marcellus Harley Dodge; its interior is finished in colored marbles and its rest rooms for policemen and firemen rival those of exclusive clubs. Madison is known as the "Rose City" because of its many greenhouses. Before 1834 it went by the plainer name of Bottle Hill. Some residents contend that the name was Battle Hill since the town site is said to have been the scene of two Indian skirmishes; but historians agree that the town took its first name from the nearby tavern.
The Sayre House, Ridgedale Avenue, built ca. 1745, was "Mad Anthony" Wayne's headquarters while his army encamped in the Loantaka Valley.
On the western outskirts of town are the buildings of Dew University. In 1929 its theological seminary received a real estate endowment of $5-million from the $40-million fortune of Manhattan's Wendell sisters. The institution was founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church as a theological seminary in 1867, the centenary of American Methodism, on ground donated by Daniel Drew, a stock-market speculator.
Nearby Towns: Chatham Twp • East Hanover Twp • Harding Twp • Millburn Twp • Morris Twp • Morristown Town • Summit City •