Chatsworth
The Chatsworth area was once known as Shamong Station. Early settlement was in the late 1700s.
Iron ore from local deposits was used for ammunition during the Revolutionary War. Samuel and Thomas Richards had an iron furnace in the area from prior to the war until the 1830s. The area became agricultural, particularly once the railroad arrived in 1860.
Prince Mario Ruspoli de Poggio-Suassa, an Italian embassy attache in Washington, married a local woman and decided to build a country club on Lake Shamong around 1904. Its design was based on an English estate of the duke of Devonshire called Chatsworth.
Ruspoli remained in the area until World War I. The Chatsworth Country Club, which once counted members of high society among its visitors, eventually became the Woodland Country Club. It has since been torn down.