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Encyclopedia Britannica



WEST ORANGE

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 556 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WEST ORANGE , a town of Essex county, New
Jersey
 , U.S.A., in the N.E. part of the state, about 13 M. W. of New
York
  City. Pop. (18go) 4358, (r000) 6889 (1772 foreign-born); (1905, state census) 7872; (1910) 10,980. It is served by the Orange branch of the Erie railroad, and is connected with neighbouring towns and cities by electric lines. The town has an area of about 7 sq. m. It is crossed in a N.E. and S.W. direction by two ridges the Hrst (also called the Orange or Watchung) Mountain and the Second Mountain. Eagle
Rock
  (about 65o ft.), on the summit of First Mountain, commands a splendid view. On the eastern slope of First Mountain are Hutton Park, containing the grounds of the Essex County Country Club, and Llewellyn Park, a beautiful residential
tract
  of 750 acres, named in honour of its originator, Llewellyn S. Haskell (1815-1872). West Orange has various manufactures, including phonographs, lawn mowers and felt hats. In 1862 parts of the townships of Orange, Caldwell and Livingston were united into a new township named Fairmount. In 1863 another part of Orange was added and the name of the new township was changed to West Orange. In woo West Orange was chartered as a town.
See H. Whittemore, The Founders and Builders of the Oranges (
Newark
 , 1896).


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