Around Lake Mohawk and the wooded roads of Sparta, homes deal with pests that love water and trees. Prestige Pest Unit provides pest control, exterminator services and rodent removal in Sparta, NJ, with one local team from nearby Franklin.
Prestige Pest Unit is an owner-run company based in Franklin, NJ, serving Sussex and Morris County. The person you speak to on the phone knows the area and the pests that show up here each season.
Our exterminator services also cover termites, bed bugs, roaches and wasp nests, so one company handles it all.
Pest control, exterminator and rodent removal in Sparta are often one job. The lakes and woods that make Sparta a great place to live also bring ants, wasps and mice to the same homes.
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In the fall, Sparta’s wooded lots send mice and stink bugs toward the house. Sealing vents, sill plates and gaps around the deck now keeps them out through the winter.
Sparta’s pest year: carpenter ants in spring, mosquitoes and wasps by the water in summer, mice and fall invaders once October arrives.
Most homes have a handful of entry points that matter: garage door seals, dryer vents, gaps where pipes enter, and cracks in the foundation. Closing those few spots does most of the work.
Call Prestige Pest Unit today to book pest control in Sparta, NJ.
Pre-colonial Sparta was inhabited by the Lenape Native Americans. In the 1750s, Dutch explorers discovered red ores in the area and attempted to mine copper. No permanent settlers arrived until 1778, when Robert Ogden and his wife built their home and constructed an iron forge on lands he had acquired and “called their house and farm Sparta.” The first public building in Sparta was the Presbyterian Church which was incorporated in 1786. Schools were established in Ogdensburg by 1806 and in Sparta by 1812.
Iron, zinc, and limestone supported a mining industry for over 100 years, but today the mining operations have ceased and the township is now a residential community served by retail, professional, and service small businesses. According to the 2000 census, 65% of Sparta Township workers commute to jobs outside of the county.
Robert Ogden settled in 1778 near the present town of Ogdensburg and built an iron forge, utilizing local ore from his Ogden Mine on Sparta Mountain. The Horseshoe mine was opened in 1772 by the Englishmen Spargo and Harvey who shipped ore by horse and mule to the forges at Sparta and Hopewell. It wasn’t until 1868 that the Ogden Mine Railroad began operations and made it economical to ship zinc and iron ore to Nolan’s Point on Lake Hopatcong where the Morris Canal had a marine terminal that could ship ore to Newark. In 1872, the New Jersey Midland Railroad (later known as the New York, Susquehanna & Western) extended to Ogdensburg and captured the zinc ore traffic.
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