Historical Marker

Cranetown

Marker is at the intersection of Bloomfield Avenue (County Route 506) and Valley Road, on the left when traveling west on Bloomfield Avenue. · Essex

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Colonial hamlet, named for the Crane family, in whose home Washington stayed in October, 1780. Became Montclair in 1870's.

AddressMarker is at the intersection of Bloomfield Avenue (County Route 506) and Valley Road, on the left when traveling west on Bloomfield Avenue.

CountyEssex

Speer, early landowner and Revolutionary War Captain and his family lived in this Dutch Colonial home from 1760-1929.

East Orange, NJ

In the area of "Cotton Mill Pond," where after 1812, James Mason made Calico Cloth on site of early mills and tanery.

Cornwallis's army, in pursuit of Washington's troops, in the retreat of 1776, passed through Orange, and some detachments are said to...

Glen Ridge, NJ

Cranetown, the Revolutionary name for Montclair, was named for the Crane family, at whose house Washington and Lafayette made their...

Newark, NJ

Here stood the house of Dr. William Burnet, noted patriot-surgeon.