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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
MADISON, 12.8 miles. (250 alt., 7,481 pop.), a solidly built suburban
town with a rich historical background, could pass for a New England
village. It is enlivened by the presence of Drew University and Mrs. Marcellus Hartley Dodge. Madison's million-dollar MUNICIPAL BUILDING
(L), on the other side of the Lackawanna R.R. embankment, is the gift
of Mrs. Dodge, who is the former Geraldine Rockefeller, daughter of
William Rockefeller and a niece of the late John D. Rockefeller. The
building is a memorial to her son, Marcellus Hartley Dodge; its interior is
finished in colored marbles and its rest rooms for policemen and firemen
rival those of exclusive clubs. Madison is known as the "Rose City" because of its many greenhouses. Before 1834 it went by the plainer name
of Bottle Hill. Some residents contend that the name was Battle Hill since
the town site is said to have been the scene of two Indian skirmishes; but
historians agree that the town took its first name from the nearby tavern.
The SAYRE HOUSE (private), Ridgedale Ave., built c. 1745, was "Mad
Anthony" Wayne's headquarters while his army encamped in the Loantaka Valley.
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