As an industrial state, NJ is no stranger to industrial toxins. In recent decades, we have been home to over 140 Superfund cleanup sites...

Over the centuries many families in our community have chosen Rosedale Cemetery as their final place of rest. It consists of 92...

The extended Roosevelt family were great believers in the benefits of summer vacations in the country and outdoor pursuits. Teddy, as a...

The earliest residents of the Maplewood-South Orange area were The Lenape (len-AH-pay), Native Americans who once populated “a vast...

The executors of the C.V.S. Roosevelt Jr. estate were enmeshed in a long dispute over his will, but upon its resolution, William Howard...

Thomas Benton Ackerson, owner of the eponymous T. B. Ackerson Company, entered the Roosevelt Park story in 1904. A developer of houses...

Long before the police station and fire department were located beside Memorial Park following Maplewood's incorporation, the area had...

For centuries, apples have been the most commonly grown and consumed fruit in the northern latitudes. In 2006, a detailed and expansive...

sources: 1. John P. Snyder, The Story of New Jersey’s Civil Boundaries 1606-1968. (Bureau of Geology and Topography, Trenton, New Jersey,...

The name “Maplewood” dates back to 1860, but the history of the section can be traced back many, many years, to a time before the hum of...

The Revolutionary War Battle of Springfield, in June 1780, took place little more than a stone's throw from Maplewood's borders. Although...

The Durand-Hedden House, whose original structure was built in about 1790, sits on two acres of the original plantation that was part of a...