Interesting Tidbits

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• The largest statue of Thomas Paine is located in Morristown.
  
• Morristown was the home of Thomas Nast for more than twenty years.
  
• Morristown & Erie Railway, a local short-line freight railway, has its main office, yard, and shop in Morristown.
  
• The Seeing Eye, a guide dog school, has been based in Morristown since 1929. It was the first such school in the nation.
  
• The United States Equestrian Team, USET, the international equestrian team for the United States, was founded in 1950 at the Coates estate on van Beuren Road in Morristown.
  
• One of the few statues depicting an unblindfolded Lady Justice adorns the facade of the Courthouse.
  
• On January 5, 2009, five red lights were spotted in the Morristown area night skies. The event was a staged hoax using helium balloons and flares, but became nationally known as the Morristown UFO