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East Orange Interactive Museum

� 2016

East Orange Historical Map Tour
on Google Maps

Ward Maps:
First Ward
Second Ward
Third Ward
Fourth Ward
Fifth Ward

Newest Exhibits

Added - 8/12/15 - 1938 Yearbook - Columbian Grammar School

� 2016

Get your FREE 2016 East Orange Calendar

� 2015

Electioneering In East Orange
11/03/15

East Orange True News for 2015

� 2015

Veterans' Day at City Hall
11/11/15

� 2015

Memorial Day at City Hall
05/25/15
Memorial Day Parade

East Orange Ordinances of 2015 Found On-line

Gun "Scoreboard" for 2015 - 2014 - 2013

� 2015

Laura Trimmings

June 6, 1938 - May 19, 2015

� 2015

Historic Battle For the Bands
04/25/15

� 2015

04/22/15 Earth Day 2015

04/24/15 Arbor Day in East Orange

Newark- Branch Brook Park
Cherry Blossom Web Cam

� 2015

� 2015

End of an Era: Harris Diner Destroyed by Fire
3/09/15

Fire Video 3/09/15 - Fire Fighters Video 3/09/15
Northeast Bravest Photos 3/09/15 - Owner's Last Look 3/25/15
Photos from 2011
Six Photos 2012-2014
Inside Jersey Photo Shoot - 2008

� 2015

State of the City
01/20/15

State of the City Rebuttals

East Orange Ordinances from 2014 found on-line

� 2014

Electioneering in East Orange
11/04/14

East Orange True News for 2014

� 2014

Veterans' Day
11/11/14

� 2014

Independence Day
July 4th, 2014

� 2014

Memorial Day
May 26, 2014

� 2014

Earth Day
April 22, 2014

� 2014

Vincent Potuto
(1951 - 2014)

Tribute to Vincent Potuto posted on YouTube
by Todd Shelton

� 2014

Swearing In Ceremony of

Mayor Lester Taylor

01/01/14

East Orange Mayor Taylor Swearing In Ceremony 2014
from James Gerrish on Vimeo.

� 2013

Electioneering in East Orange

11/05/13

East Orange True News for 2013

Begins March 2013
Through December 2013

� 2013

Veterans Day

11/11/13

� 2013

Master Plan For
East Orange Parks

� 2013

East Orange
History Walking Tour

07/18/13

� 2013

Dedication of Harry James Ball Court

07/02/13

� 2013

Main Street Art

May - 2013

� 2013

17 Year Cicadas Emerge

May - 2013

� 2013

Earth Day 2013
April 22, 2013

� 2013

365 MLK Blvd Construction
Project Begins

4/2/2013

� 2013

The East Orange Water Works
From 1881 until 2013

3/5/2013

Coming Soon - A Virtual Tour of the East Orange Water Works

� 2013

Winter Storm "Nemo"
Passed Through East Orange, NJ

2/8/13-2/9/13

� 2012

Hurricane Sandy
Passed Through East Orange, NJ

10/29/12-10/30/12

� 2012

Lucius A. Bowser

(1927 - 2012)

� 2012

Spring & Summer
Flag Raising Ceremonies

Voter Rally

6/1/12 - Guyana's 46th Independence Anniversary 5th Annual Flag Raising
Ceremony

8/6/12 Jamaican Flag Raising Ceremony

� 2012

Memorial Day
5/28/12

� 2012

Earth Day 2012
Tisquantum Day

Biography of Tisquantum

Three Sisters Gardens

Squanto's Secret Garden Book

� 2012

Whitney Houston
(August 9, 1963 � February 11, 2012)

� 2011

Hurricane Irene passes through
East Orange
August 27-28, 2011

� 2011

Fourth of July Celebration
July 1, 2011

� 2011

Parks Reconstruction
June - November 2011

Rowley Park Grand Re-Opening - 11/05/11

Rowley Park

Elmwood Park

� 2011

Veteran's Memorial Day Ceremony
05/30/11

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Veteran's Day, 11/11/11

� 2011

Earth Day / Johnny Appleseed Day
04/22/11

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Photo Poems of Spring - March 2011

� 2011

Mayor Bowser meets with President Obama
02/08/11

� National Conference of Black Mayors

� 2010

The Legacy of Junior Walker
11/16/10

� 2010

Opening of Benjamin Banneker Academy
10/04/10

� Benneker Academy Opens - LocalTalk

� 2010

Passing of Rev. Arthur S. Jones
(August 8, 1923 - August 17, 2010)

More Information

� 2010

100th Birthday Celebration of
John O. Gerrish
(August 31, 1910- November 29, 2010)

Historic Photos

Birthday Party Photos

� 2010

100th Anniversary Celebrations of
Holy Name School and Church

1910-2010

Celebrations from 6/6/10 to 6/6/11

� Stained Glass Windows

� 2010

Memorial Day 5/31/10

� Historic Video

� 2010

Friendly Rivalry between Orange and East Orange Bands (04/24/10)

� 2010

How East Orange Celebrated Earth Day 2010 (04/22/10)

Clock Garden 2010

East Orange Gardens 2010

Centennial Tree Gone

� 2010

Inauguration of Robert L. Bowser for a fourth term as Mayor of East Orange. (01/01/10)

CTS Music Honor Society Band plays at the Reception (01/01/10)

� 2009

First Major Theatrical Production at Cicely Tyson School of Performing and Fine Arts (12/18/09)

Pit Band Photos at the Band Parent Association Web site

� 2009

East Orange Unified Marching Band Finally receives new uniforms. (November/December 2009)

East Orange Record Article 12/17/09

Band Parent Archives

� 2009

Opening of Senior Center (11/03/09)

� 2009

Dedication of the New Cicely Tyson Community School, 10/24/09

Cicely Tyson

Click HERE to order a Souvenir Program from Lulu.com

� 2009

Centennial of the Incorporation of the City of East Orange
1909 - 2009

East Orange
Past, Present and Future

1- Municipal Buildings and Mayors

2 - Religious Congregations & Buildings

3 - Schools, Old and New

� 2008

Princeton Street Ribbon
Cutting Ceremony
06/17/08

04/22/08 Earth Day at the Old Burying Ground in Orange

10/18/08 Education Award For The Reverend Russell White

11/11/08 Veterans Day

MORE 2008 Historic Events

� 2008

Stained Glass Window Restoration Project
of
Christ Episcopal Church, Main Street, East Orange

History of
Christ Episcopal Church
in East Orange

� 2007

African American Slaves Discovered Being Held In Captivity in East Orange in 2007

Radicalization in the West:
The Homegrown Threat

Not Just for NYC

�2006

The History of the East Orange Unified Marching Band
(EOUMB)

� 2005

Demolition of East Orange High School and Groundbreaking for new Cicely Tyson School Complex

Cicely Tyson

Mayor Robert Bowser

1997

Franklin School renamed to Whitney Houston Academy

Lincoln School renamed to the Dionne Warwick Institute of Economics and Entrepreneurship

Whitney Houston Biography

Dionne Warwick in East Orange

1985

April 12, 1985 - Ground Breaking begins on
Brick Church Plaza construction

1975

Eagle Flight Squadron Begins

Reverend Russell White
Eagle Flight Squadron, Inc.
12/11/14 - NBC Nightly News Program

1971

WNBC Produced Video made in 1971

1972- Interstate 280 through East Orange opens.

A Video History of I-280 from 1960 to the final completion in 1973 can be found on YouTube HERE.

News12 Version

1970

First African American Mayor Elected

"East Orange - City at the Crossroads" - 1970 Video of Mayor Hart

Mayor William S. Hart - Obituary

All Mayors of East Orange

Soul Majestics Drill Team - circa 1970

1967

How East Orange views the world in 1967

Newark, NJ Riots

Newark Evening News Reports

The Kerner Report on the Riots

Other Reports

Plainfield, NJ Riots

1965

This Is East Orange - booklet published by the League of Women Voters of East Orange.

This publication was scanned in March, 2010

1964

Photographs of Main Street between Greenwood Avenue and the Garden State Parkway, October, 1964

(Before the stores were demolished for the construction of the East-West Freeway, I-280)

Tony Monica shares his video: East Orange in the 60's - Prior to building Rt 280.

� 1963

Centennial Celebration of East Orange

The Communist Goals of 1963

Click here to order Centennial History Reprint.

� 1963

Eunice Flanders Cary
Opens the First Emergency Shelter
for Foster Children in Essex County

1961

East Orange High School Syllabus (Yearbook) Photos

1957

Challenge of Racially Segregated School Districts in Orange, NJ
The 1957 Gerrymander

Homeboy Came To Orange
(Available from Amazon.com)

Ernest Thompson
Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Citizens for Representative Government

1952

Mayor Charles Martens Retires;
Ashland Stadium Renamed Martens Stadium in his Honor

1950

Dedication of World War II Memorial
May 30, 1950

Newark Star Ledger Article 5/26/14

� 1945-46

�City Planning Board Report
on Schools & Recreation in East Orange

This publication was scanned in March of 2011.

� 1938

�Columbian Grammar School Yearbook

� 1936

�Superintendent of Schools Dr. Clifford J. Scott passes away

9/19/36 - Wooden Cross Burned at Ashland School in Segregation Protest

Dr. Clifford J. Scott Biography

� 1929

Official opening of Soverel Field as a Playground

Early History of Soverel Lakes

� 1922

�City Plan For East Orange
Including First Plan for Current City Hall

� 1921

�East Orange Begins to Elevate the Trains
Before (1914) and After (1924) Photos Included

Dedication of Elmwood Park, October 12, 1921

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� More From: Jeff S - Historic Blogger

� Lackawanna RR Elevation in the Oranges

� Old Maps of Newark and the Oranges (1895 - 1911)

� 1918

�Charles H. Martens is elected mayor (Republican).

Charles Martens
Mayor from 1918- 1952

� 1915

�East Orange supports women's suffrage.

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� 1913

�East Orange celebrates its Semi-Centennial

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� The Marlborough Hotel

� 1912

�President Taft visits East Orange

Titanic Hits Iceberg and Sinks

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President William Howard Taft
Lincoln Statue

William Anderson Walker, of East Orange, is a passenger on the Titanic when it sinks.

� 1911

�"New" East Orange High School Building Completed

The First Apartment Building in East Orange

Dedication of Lincoln Statue

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� 1910 - House of Dr. Cater at Brick Church

� 1909

East Orange Incorporates as a City

Lincoln School Officially Opens

East Orange supports women's suffrage.
Madam Desno's Women's Products Business

1908-09 Annual Report of the City of East Orange

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Lincoln School

� 1907

�Centennial of the Oranges

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Report on the Ransley Company from 1907

� 1905

�Boycott of Segregated School

Stockton School Opens

Stockton School�

� 1903

�Dedication of Carnegie Library

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2009 - Municipal Court

� 1901

�Stable for Archer Brown- 1901

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� 1899

East Orange elects its first mayor.

Nassau School Opens

Boycott of Segregated School

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� 1897

Beginning of the Annual
Thanksgiving Day Foot Ball Games
Between Barringer High School
and East Orange High School

� 1896

Architect's Plan for the first East Orange Town Hall, on Main Street.

�House of Mrs. Charles R. Lee, 1898

� 1895

The East Orange Riding and Driving Club

Dedication of the Prospect Street Baptist Church

� 1894

�The famous Cable Car ride up and down South Mountain

� 1892

�Columbian School Dedicated

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First Grade Class of 1955

Architect's drawing of the Residence of D.S. Walton- 1892

Architect's drawing of Roof Trusses for Trinity Church - 1893

� 1890

�East Orange High School Building Completed

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Graduating Class of 1897

� 1885

�Plans for Captain J.H. Hart House

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� 1887

�Drawing for Club House at Brick Church

� Residence for J.H. Hart, 1885

� 1882

Aunt Betsey Berry of East Orange Interviewed by the New York Times

Uncle Anthony Thompson of West Orange also Interviewed by the New York Times

� 1881

�The Boiling Springs beginning of our "Water Wealth"

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� 1875

Dutch Reform Church
aka "The Brownstone"
is dedicated.

� Virtual Church Tour

� 1864

�East Orange participates in its first presidental election for Abe Lincoln.

Munn Avenue Presbyterian Church is dedicated.

� Virtual Church Tour

� 1863

East Orange separates from Orange.

First East Orange Township Meeting.

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� 1862

�West Orange separates from Orange.

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� West Orange History Site

� 1861

�South Orange separates from Orange.

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� 1860

�The NJ State Legislature divides Orange into three wards.

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� 1857

Alice Stone Blackwell is born.

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Alice Stone Blackwell Biography

� 1850

�Several large fires set the stage for a separation of Orange from the "Eastenders."

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� 1837

�Great Depression closes many businesses and starts up new ones.

First Baptist Church of Orange is dedicated.

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� Virtual Church Tour

� 1836

�Train Service Comes to East Orange

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� 1831

�Brick Church is completed.

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� Virtual Church Tour

� 1825

�Franklin School begins classes.

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� Franklin School (Whitney Houston Academy) Today (2009)

� 1814

Why we have so many shade trees in the Oranges today.

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� Daniel Babbit(t)

� 1806

�Township of Orange separates from Newark.

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Photo Memories of Old Newark

Some history of the Roseville Section of Newark

� 1798

First Store in the Oranges

Stephen D. Day

John Morris Lindsley

� 1780

"Newark Mountain" renamed "Orange."

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1777

Battle of Watsessing on the Second River.

Revolutionary War Sites

1776

Battle of Peck's Hill.

Whiskey Lane

1775

The Mountain Society votes to join the Revolutionary War.

Tory Corner

1772

Jemima Condict (or Condit) begins her diary

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Jemima Condict's Diary
Condit Family Memorial
Jemima Condict Harrison's Memorial

1763

William Franklin (son of Benjamin Franklin) becomes the Royal Governor of New Jersey

William Franklin Biography

1756

4:00 PM, June 22, 1756, Hurricane hits the Newark Mountain

1756

New Jersey Quaker John Woolman begins his Anti-Slavery Journal

Excerpts from The Journal
Complete Journal

1745

English Proprietors jail Samuel Baldwin for not paying property tax.

1744

Fire destroys Jonathan Pierson's House and deed to land.

1735

John Dodd builds a grist mill on the banks of the Second River.

What's a Grist Mill?

Where is the Second River today?

1727

Samuel Harrison builds a saw mill on the banks of Wigwam Brook.

Samuel Harrison

Where is Wigwam Brook today?

The Williams Family History

1723

The first recorded burial at the "Old Burial Ground" in Orange.

Interactive Map of the Old Burying Grounds

1720

Samuel Dodd builds a saw mill on the banks of the Second River.

Where is the Second River today?

1719

Samuel Pierson builds the first Meeting House

1718

John Dodd finds copper on his farm.

1712

New York Slave Revolt

1679

Daniel Dodd settles on land near Watsessing Plain.

1678

Land that will become East Orange is "purchased" from Native Americans.

The Mountain Society
by James Hoyt 1860

1666

Native Americans "sell" land to Robert Treat.

Robert Treat
Chief Oraton