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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Residents Taken on Tour of Montville Through the Years

Historic Society and Tom Mazzacaro give a look at how things have changed.

“If we don’t know our history, we’re not going to know our future,” Tom Mazzacaro told the audience at the Montville Township Senior Center on Monday. Mazzacaro gave a Historic Society presentation entitled “Prospective Town Planning and Development since 1965,” which gave a deep look into how Montville changed in the last five decades to get to where it is today. Mazzacaro, director of the Department of Public Works, served on the township planning board from 1975 through 1990. “In January 1973, when I moved into Montville Township, it was mostly farms and wooded areas west of Changebridge Road and north of Horseneck Road," Mazzacaro said. “The community park was a working dairy farm owned by the Sisco family. Trinity Baptist Church and …

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