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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
CRANFORD, 6.2 miles (70 alt., 11,126 pop.), is an old residential town
spread along the RAHWAY RIVER PARKWAY, a link of nearly 7 miles joining a series of county parks and playgrounds with the Essex County park
system. There are facilities for summer and winter sports, a rifle range,
and picnic grove. The Fourth of July canoe regatta is an anual affair.
Gardens of fine old Victorian houses line the edge of the parkway on the
riverbank. A broadening of the river parkway at the northern end of
Cranford (R) is known as NOMAHEGAN PARK. The name Nomahegan is
a variation of Noluns Mohegans, as the New Jersey Indians were called in
the treaty ending the Indian troubles in 1758. It is translated as women
Mohegans or she-wolves and was applied to them in scorn by the fighting
Iroquois.
Opposite Nomahegan Park is 18-hole NOMAHEGAN GOLF CLUB
(greens fee 50 cents).
Westward on State 28 one suburban community merges with the next.
Factories are spaced along the railroad (L), and the highway is well lined
with dining cars and gas stations.
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