Saturday, December 29, 2012

MAPLEWOOD HISTORY LESSON

Our friend local real estate man Mark Slade posted a great history of Maplewood on his site this week.

Check it out HERE.

One tid bit from his story:

Maplewood was originally formed as South Orange Township, which was created on April 1, 1861, from portions of Clinton Township and what was then the Town of Orange. The name of the township was changed to Maplewood on November 7, 1922.[16]

When the Morris and Essex Railroad from Newark was extended to the area in 1838, a land speculator by the name of John Shedden built a railroad station in Jefferson Village and named it Maplewood. This name came to comprise areas known as Hilton, Jefferson Village, and areas previously part of Springfield. In 1868, farms were divided into parcels for residential housing. 



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