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Photograph of a bronze plaque of Marcellus Hartley Dodge Sr., resident of Hartley Farms, Spring Valley Road, Harding Township, New Jersey (near Chatham, Madison, Morristown, and New Vernon), which has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places - entrepreneur and philanthropist; heir to the Hartley fortune; married to GeraldineRockefeller; benefactor to Columbia University; renowned in New Jersey for having joined a small number of citizens of the area who, in 1959 as the Jersey Jet Site Association launched the successful effort to save the Great Swamp from development as an airport (described as "one of the largest community-action conservation battles ever waged"), by becoming one of the trustees of the National Wildlife Foundation in 1960 and a principal contributor to the funds raised to acquire enough property in the massive watershed to give it to the federal government as a park that could not be developed—ever; yachtsman and an equestrian, founder of the Spring Valley Hounds hunt club. |
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