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Owned and Operated by NRT LLC. 2013 This Is Westfield Our 41st Annual Edition Page 3 Advertisers Index Publisher’s Note Advertiser Page SERVING THE TOWN SINCE 1890 A Face Forever, LLC 15 Anthony James Construction 35 Arida DDS, Kenneth W. 52 Arthur Murray Dance Studio 51 This Is Westfield 2013 Bansky, Ron - Allstate 41 41ST ANNUAL EDITION Bayada Home Health Care 23 A SPECIAL SECTION OF Bernstein, Jayne 62 Bramnick, Jon 47 The Westfield Leader Bramnick, Jon 53 P.O. BOX 250 Callahan, Barbara 13 251 NORTH AVENUE WEST Choi, Hye-Young 10 WESTFIELD, NJ 07091 Cosenza, Christine State Farm 31 HORACE CORBIN Christopher Academy 19 www.goleader.com Coldwell Banker East 32 Coldwell Banker West 12 (908) 232-4407 Welcome to the 41st Annual Edi- [email protected] Conover, Jacqueline 25 tion of This Is Westfield that Continuo Arts Foundation 46 chronicles our great town with kind- Cortese-Strano,Vivian 17 Staff hearted people and wonderful Daunno Development Co. 49 Horace Corbin, Publisher neighbors. Westfield is a superb Dave Haas for Westfield Mayor 43 David Corbin, Asst. Publisher place to live and to do business. David Realty Group 48 Jeff Gruman, Sales Downtown Westfield Corp. 3 Paul Peyton, Assignment Editor We hope you enjoy the efforts of Education Fund of Westfield 17 Betsey Burgdorf, Education, A&E our staff and the many contributors. Elm Radio TV & Appliance 50 Michael Bartiromo, Graphics Thank you for making this edition Ember Fireplaces 50 Suzette Stalker, Community possible for the 41st straight year Evalyn Dunn Gallery 13 Ben Corbin, Photography and for the support of all our publi- Family Investors Company 25 Robert Connelly, Business cations in town since 1890. Finestein & Malloy, LLC 6 Correspondents: see www.goleader.com/staff First Congregational Church 24 Please take special note of the Garcia, Virginia 36 Contributing Journalists and Photographers advertisers and give them a call Gialluisi Homes 37 when you need something. 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Isoldi, Frank 63 Isoldi, Frank-Bulletin 27 James Ward Mansion 64 Just Farmed 42 K9 Resorts 8 Kent Place School 19 Lynch, Betty 30 Maran, Denise 26 Contents Martin Jewelers 30 Massa, Susan 11 Feature Page McEnerney, Mary 31 Merriman DDS, Sunita 26 History of Westfield 4 NJ Workshop For The Arts 28 About The Town 5 Northfield Bank 29 Town Services 6 O’Connor, Patty 41 Great for Families 7 Passananti, Eileen 42 The Library 8 Pineda Conservatory 44 Mayor’s Note 9 Prominent Properties-Sotheby 34 Symphony and Band 10 Promo Cafe, The 35 Train Station 13 Prudential NJ Properties 18 Downtown Westfield Corp. 14 Rappa, Grace 45 Chamber of Commerce 15 Reel-Strong Heating & Cooling 22 Board of Education 16 Robert Algarin - Architect 6 Schools and Universities 19 Ryan, Maryalice 44 Westfield United Fund 23 Satsang Yoga Studio 11 Houses of Worship 24 ShopRite Liquors 2 Reflecting the Community 27 Subway 53 Arts and Entertainment 28 Swirl Whirl 53 Parks and Recreation 30 Tener, Carol 40 Rescue Squad 31 Top Line Appliance Center 62 Police and Fire 35 Two River Community Bank 14 Sports 39-47 Weichert Realtors 20 Organizations 54-59 Westfield Animal Hospital 16 Neighbors and Officials 60 Westfield Art Association 26 Town Government 61 Westfield Chamber Commerce 15 Fini 64 Westfield Foundation 9 Westfield PAL Support Letter 22 Westfield Pediatric Dental Gp. 17 About The Cover Westfield Town Republicans 40 “The Juggler” - We balance many things in our lives, and so the folks of town do so with enthusiasm, grace and talent. The young performer on www.goleader.com the cover exhibits her skills on cam- era a few years ago at the Westfield News, Sports, Community, FestiFall (with Snoopy peering in the Business and Services lens). Page 4 This Is Westfield Our 41st Annual Edition 2013 July 4th in Mindowaskin Park by Brooks Crandall Nutshell Chronological History of Westfield AS PUBLISHED IN THE LEADER, ary Cemetery on Mountain Avenue, oppo- apart from Elizabethtown Township in Elizabethtown to Easton, Pa. Geo. Tingley NOVEMBER 28, 1923 site the Presbyterian Church. 1794. There was only a small cluster of of Westfield, was the coach driver for 50 Originally Known as “Westfields of Gen. (Mad) Anthony Wayne’s Brigade houses in the town, the center of which was years. The first railroad had one track, Elizabeth,” Being a Part of Elizabethtown of Revolutionary troops were stationed in at junction of Mountain and Central Av- made of beams, on top of which were of Elizabeth Township. Westfield, which was a military post. The enues; Baker’s Inn, the Meeting House and placed iron strips for rails. There were two First settlement in 1720 by a few hardy arsenal was between Stanley Oval and parsonage and residence of Dr. Philemon trains a day, one in the morning, the same folk from Elizabethtown who believed Chestnut Streets, near the present tennis Elmer. Charles Clark’s store was at the train returning at night. The first station Elizabeth “too big” and crowded. courts. An army hospital was located near corner of Jerusalem Road (now Prospect was at a point just west of Irving’s coal Indians all around at that time and hos- what is now Fairview Cemetery. Maxwell’s Street) and Broad. yard. This was later destroyed by fire and tile, too, at times as the whites, or some of Brigade was also encamped in Westfield In all there were 15 houses, a smithy, the second station was at Clark and Broad them, were not over-scrupulous in their (1780). Westfield’s soldiers fought at the tavern and a school with twenty pupils. It is streets. The eastern terminal was at methods in getting the lands from the simple battle of Springfield and there was a skir- worthy of note that Westfield was settled Elizabethport, where passengers took a (and at first trustful) redmen. Every settler mish at a point east of the junction of before a single residence was erected in ferry to New York. kept a musket handy. Some of the Indians Benson Place and East Broad Street, in Plainfield, which was Scotch Plains, and The train going west ran only as far as sold their land for less than 1¢ for 10 acres. which a British officer was wounded and a was included in Westfield-Township. Somerville and three coaches comprised With the advent of the Revolution, cannon, famous after as “Old One Horn” Growth of the town was slow and during the train. As first the company had only two Westfield was quite a settlement and 33 was captured. It is now at Fairview Cem- the Mexican War, Westfield Township had engines and the capital stock was but Revolutionary soldiers who enlisted from etery. less than 40 dwellings but it was quite a $200,000. Traffic increased slowly but af- Westfield, lie buried in the old Revolution- In this fight the Continentals were, how- trading point and had twelve small stores, ter 1880 there was an accelerated increase ever, compelled to retreat and a paper factory, several flour and grist and the population trebled between 1880 the British carried off the bell mills and two academies to which students and 1890. from the Presbyterian Church from miles around came in retaliation for the alarm that for instruction. had been sounded by it when The factories were not the British came into sight. located in what is now the Morgan, a sentinel, mur- town but in Scotch Plains dered the Rev. and elsewhere. Sheep rais- Jas. Caldwell on Nov. 24, ing was an important in- 1781, and suffered the death dustry. Copper was discov- penalty on Gallows Hill on East ered in the Watchung Broad Street near the old Range of hills but little in Scudder homestead.