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Millburn is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 20,149. Millburn Township was created as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 20, 1857, from portions of Springfield Township. Millburn also includes the hamlet of Short Hills. Millburn comprises 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. Millburn is near South Mountain Reservation, The Mall at Short Hills and the suburban towns of South Orange, Maplewood, Livingston, and Summit. Millburn is also home to the Paper Mill Playhouse, a 70-year-old regional theater. New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Millburn as the 53rd best place to live in New Jersey in its 2008 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey. Millburn had the highest annual property tax rate in New Jersey in 2009 at $19,097, compared to the statewide average of $7,300 that year which was the highest in the United States. |