West Orange Revisited

On March 14, 1863, the New Jersey Legislature created the township of West Orange by combining all of the land of the existing Fairmount Township, formed only a year earlier, with a section of neighboring Orange. It created West Orange with its present—day boundaries and gave the new town a separate and distinct identity. It became home to the laboratories of world—famous inventor Thomas Edison in 1887, and he lived here until his death in 1931. But there is so much more to the town's histo...