Summit is the northernmost city in Union County and sits on a ridge in north-central New Jersey. It borders Millburn (Essex County) to the northeast, Chatham Borough and Chatham Township (Morris County) to the northwest, New Providence to the west, Berkeley Heights to the southwest, Mountainside to the south and Springfield Township to the southeast, so it touches both the Essex and Morris county lines.
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After the Civil War, Summit became a summer resort where very wealthy families built large summer estates (City of Summit); in the late 19th century the area shifted from farmland to estates. After World War II, a building boom is credited with giving Summit the suburban character it is known for today: tree-lined streets and architect-designed houses.
Summit station (40 Union Place, downtown) is on NJ Transit's Morris & Essex Lines. The Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch meet there, with trains to New York Penn Station and Hoboken Terminal. NJ Transit says Midtown Direct on the Morris & Essex Lines gives either a one-seat ride into Manhattan or a transfer at Summit or Newark Broad Street. Buses: NJ Transit 70 (Newark to Livingston Mall, with Summit stops) and NJ Transit 986 (Summit to Murray Hill to Plainfield). Lakeland Bus Lines Route 78 (Bernardsville to the Port Authority Bus Terminal) lists Summit stops, including the Summit Park & Ride and Broad St. at Maple St. by the station. Routes 24 and 124 run along the city's eastern boundary and I-78 along its southern boundary.
Downtown Summit (Springfield Avenue commercial district; the Village Green at 356 Broad Street); Summit station (NJ Transit, 40 Union Place); Overlook Medical Center (Atlantic Health System, 99 Beauvoir Avenue); Reeves-Reed Arboretum (historic estate and garden, 165 Hobart Avenue); Summit Playhouse (c. 1891 Romanesque building at 10 New England Avenue, on the National Register of Historic Places; community theater founded in 1918); Visual Arts Center of New Jersey (68 Elm Street, within walking distance of Summit station); Summit Opera House (built in the 1890s by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Springfield Avenue at Kent Place Boulevard); Carter House (built in 1741, moved in 1986 to 90 Butler Parkway; home of the Summit Historical Society); Twin Maples (built 1908, architect Alfred F. Norris; home of the Fortnightly Club of Summit; National Register listed); Briant Park (Union County park in Summit and Springfield); Hidden Valley Park (Union County park in Summit and Springfield); Soldiers Memorial Field (100 Morris Avenue; athletic complex with the Cornog Field House); Watchung Reservation (Union County reservation that lies partly in Summit and borders it to the south); Summit Park Line (linear park being built on the former Rahway Valley Railroad from in front of Overlook Medical Center toward Briant Park; still under construction in 2026); Summit Family Aquatic Center; Summit Municipal Golf Course ('the Muni'); Summit Free Public Library (Maple Street and Morris Avenue); Canoe Brook Country Club (private, founded 1901, 36 holes; in Summit and Short Hills); Beacon Hill Club (private neighborhood club opened in 1956, 250 Hobart Avenue); Summit Farmers Market (downtown, Sundays 8 AM to 1 PM, April to December).
Summit Public Schools (PreK-12) has two primary centers for preschool and kindergarten (Jefferson and Wilson), five elementary schools for grades 1-5 (Brayton, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln-Hubbard and Washington), Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle School (6-8) and Summit High School (9-12). Private schools in Summit: Kent Place School (founded 1894, 42 Norwood Avenue) is an all-girls independent school for K-12 with a coed preschool. Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child (44 Blackburn Road) is an independent Catholic school, coed for PreK-6 and all-girls for grades 7-12.
Summit's original name was 'Turkey Hill.' Revolutionary War signal beacon No. 10 stood on a Summit hilltop, now marked by the 'Old Sow' cannon and signal-beacon plaque at 226 Hobart Avenue near Beacon Road. Early on June 6, 1780, the cannon and beacon fire warned local militia and Washington's troops at Jockey Hollow that British and Hessian forces were invading New Jersey.
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