{
  "meta": {
    "title": "One Township. Two Rivers. One High School.",
    "published": "November 2026",
    "publisher": "CDG Digital Media",
    "site": "https://cdgdigitalmedia.com"
  },
  "notes": {
    "sections": "Population: 2020 Census. Income/rates: ACS 2019-23 5-year.",
    "towns": "ACS 2020-24 via Morris County Office of Planning.",
    "rhs": "NJDOE School Performance Reports 2021-22 to 2023-24."
  },
  "land": {
    "areaSqMi": 21.9,
    "acres": 14041,
    "preservationAcres": 4303,
    "planningAcres": 9738,
    "plainFt": 751,
    "lakeFt": 925,
    "mooneyFt": 1214,
    "canal": {
      "jerseyCity": 0,
      "summit": 914,
      "phillipsburg": 154,
      "totalChange": 1674,
      "opened": 1831,
      "closed": 1924
    }
  },
  "sections": [
    {
      "slug": "succasunna",
      "name": "Succasunna",
      "formerly": "Suckasunny (renamed 1888)",
      "pop2020": 10338,
      "elevationFt": 751,
      "watershed": "Raritan",
      "income": 164555,
      "poverty": 3.7,
      "homeValue": 483300,
      "tagline": "The population center on the glacial plain",
      "summary": [
        "Succasunna is Roxbury's population center and functional downtown — Main Street, the municipal and school campuses, Roxbury High School on Bryant Drive, and the Route 10 retail corridor.",
        "It sits on the Succasunna plain, the flattest ground in the township. About 94% of homes are owner-occupied, and it has the highest median household income of any section.",
        "Water here leaves by the Lamington River, which forms the community's southeast border and feeds the North Branch of the Raritan, and by Drakes Brook toward the South Branch."
      ],
      "facts": [
        "Homeownership around 94%",
        "Home to Roxbury High School (est. 1903)",
        "Drains to the Raritan system"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "ledgewood",
      "name": "Ledgewood",
      "formerly": "Drakesville (renamed 1892)",
      "pop2020": 4903,
      "elevationFt": 768,
      "watershed": "Raritan",
      "income": 125000,
      "poverty": 2.6,
      "tagline": "Where Route 10 meets Route 46",
      "summary": [
        "Ledgewood is the western commercial node: New Jersey Route 10 has its western terminus at US 46 here, and the big-box retail that follows that kind of junction followed.",
        "Drakes Brook rises in Ledgewood and runs southwest to the South Branch of the Raritan. The Morris Canal also passed through — Morris Canal Ledgewood Park preserves part of its alignment and an interpretive marker."
      ],
      "facts": [
        "Route 10 western terminus at US 46",
        "Source of Drakes Brook",
        "Morris Canal Ledgewood Park"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "landing",
      "name": "Landing",
      "pop2020": 4296,
      "watershed": "Delaware",
      "income": 125407,
      "poverty": 8.5,
      "bachelors": 44.1,
      "homeValue": 382300,
      "tagline": "The lake's old front door",
      "summary": [
        "Landing was built as a resort gateway. From the 1880s through the 1940s, Lackawanna trains, the Morris Canal, lake steamboats and trolleys all converged at Lake Hopatcong station, and thousands of summer visitors came through every season.",
        "Hopatcong State Park sits within Landing at the lake's outlet. Water here does not go to the Raritan at all — it leaves Lake Hopatcong by the Musconetcong and ends up in the Delaware.",
        "Today Landing mixes waterfront property with modest housing set back from the shore. Interstate 80 forms its southern edge, separating it from Ledgewood."
      ],
      "facts": [
        "Lake Hopatcong station — rail, canal, steamboat and trolley hub",
        "Hopatcong State Park (opened 1922)",
        "Drains to the Delaware via the Musconetcong"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "kenvil",
      "name": "Kenvil",
      "formerly": "McCainsville",
      "pop2020": 1806,
      "income": 81250,
      "homeValue": 338800,
      "tagline": "The explosives town",
      "summary": [
        "Kenvil was home to the second dynamite plant in the United States, opened in 1872 by the Atlantic Giant Powder Company to supply the region's iron mines. Hercules Powder acquired it in 1913 and added smokeless powder.",
        "On September 12, 1940, the plant blew up in a chain of explosions that killed about 51 people. Earlier blasts in the 1930s had killed six; another in 1989 shattered windows across town. The facility closed in 1996."
      ],
      "facts": [
        "Second U.S. dynamite plant (1872)",
        "Hercules explosion, Sept. 12, 1940 — about 51 killed",
        "Plant closed 1996"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "port-morris",
      "name": "Port Morris",
      "pop2020": 754,
      "watershed": "Delaware",
      "income": 65070,
      "incomeMoe": 11836,
      "poverty": 9.7,
      "bachelors": 15.4,
      "homeValue": 391400,
      "tagline": "The canal's high point",
      "summary": [
        "Port Morris marks the summit of the Morris Canal — the highest point on a waterway that climbed from the Hudson and then descended to the Delaware, fed largely by Lake Hopatcong.",
        "It later became a railroad village at the south end of the lake. Its income estimate carries a wide margin of error."
      ],
      "facts": [
        "Morris Canal summit level",
        "Bachelor's degree or higher: 15.4%",
        "Income margin of error ±$11,836"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "lower-berkshire-valley",
      "name": "Lower Berkshire Valley",
      "pop2020": 617,
      "incomeNote": "Estimates swing between roughly $100k and $131k by release — sample too small to rely on.",
      "tagline": "The quiet valley pocket",
      "summary": [
        "Lower Berkshire Valley is a small, older-skewing valley community in the northeast of the township, shared with neighboring Jefferson Township. The Lafayette School there is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.",
        "With only a few hundred residents, its income estimates move dramatically from one Census release to the next, so this site does not rank it."
      ],
      "facts": [
        "Lafayette School — National Register of Historic Places",
        "Median age around 50",
        "Income estimates unreliable (tiny sample)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "towns": [
    {
      "name": "Randolph",
      "income": 175000
    },
    {
      "name": "Morris County",
      "income": 137326,
      "ref": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Roxbury (township)",
      "income": 134519,
      "roxbury": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Mine Hill",
      "income": 119583
    },
    {
      "name": "Mount Olive",
      "income": 117394
    },
    {
      "name": "New Jersey",
      "income": 103556,
      "ref": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Mount Arlington",
      "income": 92264
    },
    {
      "name": "Dover",
      "income": 73737
    }
  ],
  "rhs": {
    "founded": 1903,
    "enrollment2324": 1147,
    "mountArlingtonStudents": 160,
    "composition": [
      {
        "year": "2021–22",
        "white": 67.1,
        "hispanic": 21.1,
        "black": 3.8,
        "asian": 4.7,
        "multi": 3.2,
        "econ": 11.8,
        "swd": 15.8
      },
      {
        "year": "2022–23",
        "white": 63.2,
        "hispanic": 24.7,
        "black": 4.1,
        "asian": 4.7,
        "multi": 3.2,
        "econ": 15.3,
        "swd": 16.7
      },
      {
        "year": "2023–24",
        "white": 61,
        "hispanic": 25.8,
        "black": 5.3,
        "asian": 4.9,
        "multi": 3,
        "econ": 20.2,
        "swd": 17.4
      }
    ],
    "outcomes": [
      {
        "label": "4-year graduation rate, all students (Class of 2024)",
        "rhs": "93.1%",
        "nj": "91.3%"
      },
      {
        "label": "4-year graduation, economically disadvantaged",
        "rhs": "82.9%",
        "nj": "87.1%",
        "flag": true
      },
      {
        "label": "NJGPA math \"graduation ready,\" grade 11",
        "rhs": "65.8%",
        "nj": "55.6%"
      },
      {
        "label": "NJGPA math, economically disadvantaged",
        "rhs": "44.2%",
        "nj": "36.0%"
      },
      {
        "label": "SAT Reading & Writing / Math average",
        "rhs": "566 / 552",
        "nj": "530 / 519"
      },
      {
        "label": "11th–12th graders in at least one AP course",
        "rhs": "29.8%",
        "nj": "35.9%",
        "flag": true
      },
      {
        "label": "…economically disadvantaged students",
        "rhs": "16.9%",
        "nj": "22.8%",
        "flag": true
      },
      {
        "label": "AP exams scoring 3 or higher (309 of 353)",
        "rhs": "87.5%",
        "nj": "—"
      },
      {
        "label": "Seniors earning the Seal of Biliteracy in Spanish",
        "rhs": "10.1%",
        "nj": "—"
      }
    ]
  },
  "timeline": [
    {
      "y": "1740",
      "t": "Roxbury formed from portions of Morris Township; formally incorporated under the Township Act of 1798."
    },
    {
      "y": "c. 1750",
      "t": "A river is dammed to form Brookland Pond — today's Lake Hopatcong."
    },
    {
      "y": "1831",
      "t": "The Morris Canal opens. Its summit level runs through Port Morris, fed by the lake."
    },
    {
      "y": "1872",
      "t": "The Atlantic Giant Powder Company opens the second dynamite plant in the U.S. at Kenvil."
    },
    {
      "y": "1880s–1940s",
      "t": "Landing thrives as Lake Hopatcong's resort gateway."
    },
    {
      "y": "1888 · 1892",
      "t": "\"Suckasunny\" becomes Succasunna; Drakesville becomes Ledgewood."
    },
    {
      "y": "1903",
      "t": "Roxbury High School founded. Mount Arlington students attend from the start."
    },
    {
      "y": "1922",
      "t": "Hopatcong State Park opens at the lake outlet in Landing."
    },
    {
      "y": "1924",
      "t": "The Morris Canal closes."
    },
    {
      "y": "1940",
      "t": "The Hercules Powder plant explosion at Kenvil kills about 51 people."
    },
    {
      "y": "1955",
      "t": "An overcrowded RHS ends every sending relationship except Mount Arlington's."
    },
    {
      "y": "1996",
      "t": "The Hercules Kenvil plant closes."
    },
    {
      "y": "2004",
      "t": "The NJ Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act passes."
    },
    {
      "y": "2013 · 2025",
      "t": "Roxbury conforms its Preservation Area, then its Planning Area, to the Highlands plan."
    },
    {
      "y": "2023–24",
      "t": "RHS economically disadvantaged share reaches 20.2%; Hispanic share 25.8%."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "t": "Morris County Office of Planning — Median Household & Family Income 2020–2024",
      "u": "https://www.morriscountynj.gov/files/sharedassets/public/v/1/departments/planning-amp-preservation/data/income-20-24.pdf"
    },
    {
      "t": "NJDOE — Roxbury High School Performance Report 2023–24",
      "u": "https://www.nj.gov/education/sprreports/202324/School-Detail/27-4560-050.pdf"
    },
    {
      "t": "NJDOE — Randolph High School Performance Report 2023–24",
      "u": "https://www.nj.gov/education/sprreports/202324/School-Detail/27-4330-050.pdf"
    },
    {
      "t": "NJDOE — Morris School District Performance Report 2023–24",
      "u": "https://www.nj.gov/education/sprreports/202324/District-Detail/27-3385.pdf"
    },
    {
      "t": "NJDOE — Roxbury Township School District Choice Profile 2026–27",
      "u": "https://nj.gov/education/choice/districts/morris/roxbury_twp_sd.shtml"
    },
    {
      "t": "NJ Highlands Council — Roxbury Township",
      "u": "https://www.nj.gov/njhighlands/region/local/roxbury_township.shtml"
    },
    {
      "t": "Roxbury Public Schools — District history",
      "u": "https://www.roxbury.org/Page/830"
    },
    {
      "t": "Wikipedia — Roxbury School District",
      "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxbury_School_District"
    },
    {
      "t": "Wikipedia — Mount Arlington School District",
      "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Arlington_School_District"
    },
    {
      "t": "Wikipedia — Dover High School (New Jersey)",
      "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_High_School_(New_Jersey)"
    },
    {
      "t": "Wikipedia — Roxbury, New Jersey",
      "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxbury,_New_Jersey"
    },
    {
      "t": "Wikipedia — Succasunna, Ledgewood, Landing, Kenvil (CDP articles)",
      "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succasunna,_New_Jersey"
    },
    {
      "t": "Wikipedia — Hercules Powder plant disaster",
      "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Powder_plant_disaster"
    },
    {
      "t": "Wikipedia — Hopatcong State Park",
      "u": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopatcong_State_Park"
    },
    {
      "t": "HMdb — The Morris Canal 1824–1924 marker, Ledgewood",
      "u": "https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=33270"
    },
    {
      "t": "CensusDepth — CDP income profiles (ACS 2019–23)",
      "u": "https://censusdepth.com/cities/port-morris-nj"
    },
    {
      "t": "Topographic-map.com — Mooney Mountain Park",
      "u": "https://en-us.topographic-map.com/map-hzb1gp/Mooney-Mountain-Park/"
    }
  ]
}