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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
SOUTH ORANGE (150 alt., 13,630 pop.) lies due south of Orange and West Orange. It is the smallest in population, most beautiful in natural setting, and richest in purse of the five communities. Its mountainous topography helps to maintain its social atmosphere.
With the exception of the shopping center on South Orange Avenue in the valley, the village is mostly a succession of vast, beautiful estates rising up the slopes of the First Watchung Mountains. On the East Orange boundary are a few small real estate developments where bungalows and two-family houses are adapted to more modest purses. The population includes 300 Negroes, 800 Italians, and several Japanese, the latter employed on the mountainside estates.
Known originally as the Orange Dale section of Orange, South Orange was established as a village in 1869. Governed by a non-salaried board of trustees and a president, it is one of the few incorporated villages in the State. Its few manufactures include toilet preparations, bituminous products, and cement blocks. The village has pooled its educational resources with those of Maplewood to achieve a first-class school system. It has been a leader in the crusade to exterminate the Jersey mosquito.
The village is the home of SETON HALL COLLEGE, South Orange Ave., founded in 1856 by the Catholic clergy of Newark Diocese. Since its separation from the religious seminary 10 years ago, the school has developed a cosmopolitan student body which now numbers 419. It has five buildings of stone quarried in nearby Belleville.
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