MILLBURN-SHORT HILLS The township was named "Millburn" in 1857, as a tribute to a local mill built on a stream, with "burn" being the Scottish name for "stream." Shortly after 1870, Stewart Hartshorn, inventor of the roller window shade, decided to make his home here and to enter the real estate business to establish an "ideal community." He purchased and resold much of the "short hills" area and adopted the Indians' name for his community. Today, Short Hills remains an area of Millburn Township. Millburn is located just west of Newark between the Pasaic River and Newark Bay along Highway 527 in the southwest corner of Essex County. The Township is easy to reach via the NJ Transit midtown direct line, the Garden State Parkway, NJ Turnpike, and it is also convenient to Routes 24 and 78. General Information Incorporated: Population: Area: County: Websites: 1857 15,250 10.0 Sq. Mi. Essex www.twp.millburn.nj.us/ www.co.essex.nj.us/ School Report Cards Millburn Senior HS (9-12) Millburn Middle (6-8) Deerfield (K-5) Glenwood (K-5) Hartshorn (K-5) South Mountain (K-5) Wyoming (K-5) Millburn School Websites Demographics Millburn 07041, Short Hills 07078 Ranked as having one of the top school systems in the state, Millburn schools have also received national ranking as having one of the most academically challenging high schools in the country. Millburn offers a wide variety of recreation programs, many fine restaurants, hotels, and a wide variety of cultural facilities, including the renowned Paper Mill Playhouse and the Cora Hartshorn Arboretum and Bird Sanctuary. Millburn Township offers upscale along with quaint small town shopping of a traditional downtown as well as the Mall at Short Hills, a beautiful regional shopping center in which many fine shops and stores are located. The downtown and local shopping areas offer a variety of unique specialty shops, service-based businesses, and professional offices. The town is comprised of beautiful neighborhoods on tree lined streets which cover the "short hills" of the Watchung Mountains. Millburn is comprised of the historic Wyoming district, and South Mountain and Millburn Center areas. Short Hills contains the sections of Knollwood, Glenwood, Brookhaven, Country Club, Merrywood, Deerfield-Crossroads, Mountaintop, White Oak Ridge, and Old Short Hills Estates.