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WEST ORANGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 556 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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WEST See also:
ORANGE
ORANGE (Citrus Aurantium)
ORANGE, HOUSE OF
ORANGE , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Essex See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, New See also:

Jersey, U.S.A., in the N.E. See also:

PART

part of the See also:

state, about 13 M. W. of New See also:

York See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City. Pop. (18go) 4358, (r000) 6889 (1772 See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born); (1905, state See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census) 7872; (1910) 10,980. It is served by the Orange See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the See also:

ERIE

Erie railroad, and is connected with neighbouring towns and cities by electric lines. The town has an See also:

AREA

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) See also:

Mountain and the Second Mountain. See also:

EAGLE (Fr. aigle, from the Lat. aquila)

Eagle See also:

Rock (about 65o ft.), on the See also:

SUMMIT

summit of First Mountain, commands a splendid view. On the eastern slope of First Mountain are See also:

Hutton See also:

Park, containing the grounds of the Essex County See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

Country See also:

CLUB (connected with " clump ")

Club, and Llewellyn Park, a beautiful residential See also:

TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract of 750 acres, named in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of its originator, Llewellyn S. Haskell (1815-1872). West Orange has various manufactures, including phonographs, See also:

LAWN

lawn mowers and See also:

FELT (cognate with Ger. Filz, Du. vilt, Swed. and Dan. fill; the root is unknown; the word has given Med. Lat. filtrum, " filter ")

felt hats. In 1862 parts of the townships of Orange, Caldwell and See also:

Livingston were See also:

UNITED

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 (See also:

Newark, 1896).

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