Hibernia, NJ

Tucked along Green Pond Road in northern Rockaway Township, Hibernia is a quiet, wooded corner of Morris County with deep local roots. It sits right between Lake Telemark and White Meadow Lake, offering a peaceful, small-town feel surrounded by green hills, streams, and nearby water. Named after Ireland by the immigrant miners who first settled here, the community today is a relaxed residential neighborhood with plenty of natural scenery and easy access to the rest of North Jersey.

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Long before it became a quiet residential spot, Hibernia was a bustling mining settlement. Its ironworks even supplied cannon shot to George Washington’s Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, and the historic 1869 Methodist church along Green Pond Road still stands as a landmark from those early boom years. The mines have long since closed, but you can still spot traces of that past tucked into the surrounding woods and hiking paths. For anyone looking to settle down in a scenic, low-key part of Rockaway Township, Hibernia offers a charming, out-of-the-way retreat.