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EAST ORANGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 837 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EAST See also:ORANGE , a See also:city of See also:Essex See also:county, New See also:Jersey, U.S.A., in the See also:north-eastern See also:part of the See also:state, adjoining the city of See also:Newark, and about 12 M. W. of New See also:York city. Pop. (1890) 13,282; (1900) 21,506, of whom 3950 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 1420 were negroes; (1910 See also:census) 34,371. It is served by the See also:Morris & Essex See also:division of the See also:Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railway and by the Orange See also:branch of the See also:Erie (the former having four stations—Ampere, See also:Grove See also:Street, East Orange and See also:Brick See also:Church), and is connected with Newark, Orange and See also:West Orange by electric See also:line. The city covers an See also:area of about 4 sq. m., and has broad, well-paved streets, bordered with See also:fine shade trees (under the See also:jurisdiction of a " Shade See also:Tree See also:Commission "). It is primarily a residential suburb of New York and Newark, and has many beautiful homes; with Orange, West Orange and See also:South Orange it forms virtually one community, popularly known as " the Oranges." The public school See also:system is excellent, and the city has a See also:Carnegie library (1903), with more than 22,000 volumes in 1907. Among the See also:principal buildings are several attractive churches, the city See also:hall, and the See also:club-See also:house of the Woman's Club of Orange. The principal manufactures of East Orange are See also:electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies (the factory of the Crocker-See also:Wheeler Co. being here—in a part of the city known as " See also:Ampere ") and pharmaceutical materials. The See also:total value of the city's factory products in 1905 was $2,326,552. East Orange has a fine See also:water-See also:works system, which it owns and operates; the water See also:supply is obtained from artesian See also:wells at See also:White Oaks See also:Ridge, in the township of Milburn (about 10 m. from the city hall) ; thence the water is pumped to a See also:steel reinforced See also:reservoir (capacity 5,000,000 gallons) on the See also:mountain back of South Orange. In 1863 the township of East Orange was separated from the township of Orange, which, in turn, had been separated from the township of Newark in 1806.

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act of the New Jersey legislature in 1895 created the See also:office of See also:town-See also:ship See also:president, with See also:power of See also:appointment and See also:veto. Four years later East Orange was chartered as a city. See H. Whittemore, The Founders and Builders of the Oranges (Newark, 1896).

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