Abstract
The Fort Nonsense Unit of the Morristown National Historical Park is a 35-acre parcel on Mount Kemble near the center of Morristown, a small city located in the northern New Jersey suburbs approximately 31 miles west of Manhattan. This site of a Revolutionary War fortification has expansive views down to Morristown and east into the surrounding lowlands toward New York City. The Fort Nonsense Unit is centered along the ridge and upper slopes of the northeastern extremity of Mount Kemble. The high point of the unit is the site of the fort at an elevation of 595 feet above sea level and a mean elevation of 230 feet above the Morristown Green. Mount Kemble, which is part of the eastern edge of New Jersey's Appalachian Highlands region, is a long ridge with a number of rises that runs southwest to northeast.