Community InformationElizabethport: Nowhere has this transformation been as dramatic as in the City’s oldest The Port is also benefiting from new development at Portside Commons, Broadway Village, and Marina Village. The Urban Enterprise Zone program has provided walking police to patrol the area, and there’s a new library and human development center, and community center. Perhaps the most diverse place in the City, Elizabethport is a collection of old world Elizabeth, new America, and a mix of colonial-style houses and apartment houses that stretch east of Routes 1 & 9 to its shores. For more information visit the Official Website of The City of Elizabeth Irvington:On March 27, 1874, the state approved legislation that created "a body politic" known as the Village of Irvington. Until then only a section of Clinton Township, Irvington was now an independent municipality with its own mayor, village trustees, By the turn of the century Irvington had been transformed from a country village to a thriving middle class suburb of Newark. The town's first electric trolley in 1890 was largely responsible. For more information visit the Official Website of The Township of Irvington East Orange:THE "TOWN AT THE RIVER" included land extending from the Passaic River to the Orange Mountain. For one hundred and forty years, what is now East Orange continued to be a part of Newark, and until 1780 was designated as "Newark Mountain." Orange, including all the Oranges, was separated from Newark November 27, 1806. East Orange became a separate township on March 4, 1863, the first election being held For more information visit the Official Website of the City of East Orange Roselle:The following is a brief history of our town, which has the official name of “The Borough of Roselle”. We were incorporated on December 20, 1894 as such and we celebrated our one hundredth anniversary through the entire year of 1994. However, our history goes back much further than those dates.
For more information visit the Official Website of the Borough of Roselle
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neighborhood - Elizabethport, where the City has already opened the doors on many new homes in its $90 million HOPE VI housing development.
police department (1893) and fire,. department (1894). Laws approved in Trenton in 1903 and again in 1908 that would have joined Irvington to Newark were turned aside as local voters soundly rejected the idea of annexation.
in Timothy W. Mulford's wheelwright shop on the south side of Main Street, between Walnut and Burnet Streets, April 16 1863. In that year $8,488 was raise by taxation, not including a special tax on the Ashland School districts South. On May 21, 1861, the first contingent of forty men left Orange for camp on Staten Island, just five weeks after President Lincoln had issued his first call for troops.