The World's Greatest Traveling Marionette Show got its start in Boonton
Typically, Boonton’s Miller-Kingsland house evokes the pre-Revolutionary War era, as well as an image of George Washington who is said to have marched past the house with his belabored troops scouring the countryside in search of provisions.
Striking as these scenes may be, they pale somewhat to the surreal picture of hundreds of marionettes dangling from the rafters of the property’s barn; however, that is just how history unfolded at the Miller-Kingsland Farm.
Mabel Kingsland Byrne Head and her husband Cedric, who married in 1929, went on to establish the Kingsland Marionettes.