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Mountain Lakes is a borough in Morris County, New Jersey, that began as a planned community founded in 1910 by developer Herbert J. Hapgood and was promoted as the first year-round residential lake community in northwestern New Jersey.

Mountain Lakes was incorporated as a borough on March 3, 1924, from portions of Boonton Township and Hanover Township, subject to a referendum passed on April 29, 1924.

The community's first resident was Lawrence W. Luellen, inventor of the Dixie Cup, who moved into his new home on Dartmouth Road in March 1911.

Nearly 500 large stucco Craftsman-style houses, affectionately known as "Hapgoods" or "Lakers," were built between 1911 and 1923, and the borough's historic district was later listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The borough is woven around a chain of nine mostly man-made lakes, including Mountain Lake, Birchwood Lake, Crystal Lake, Sunset Lake, Wildwood Lake and Cove Lake.

The 2020 United States census counted 4,472 residents in Mountain Lakes, up 7.5% from the 4,160 counted in 2010.

The Grimes Homestead, an 18th-century house in the borough, served as a way station on the Underground Railroad.

During World War II, Mountain Lakes hosted the United States Navy's Underwater Sound Reference Laboratories.

Part of Morris County's Tourne park, a popular hiking destination, lies within the borough.

For its first half-century, Mountain Lakes maintained an exclusionary "gentlemen's agreement" that kept African Americans, Jews, Latinos, Catholics and other groups from buying homes there, a practice that faded after the 1960s.