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MONTCLAIR , a See also:town of See also:Essex See also:county, New See also:Jersey, U.S.A., 5 M . N.N.W. of See also:Newark . Pop . (1910 See also:census) 21,550 . It is served by the See also:Erie and the See also:Delaware, Lackawanna & Western See also:railways, and by electric lines to Caldwell and Newark . It is situated at the See also:base and on the slopes of the See also:Orange Mountains (its See also:altitude above the See also:sea varying from 217 to about 665 ft.), has an irregular See also:street See also:plan, and is a residential suburb of New See also:York and other neighbouring cities . Montclair has excellent public See also:schools . Among the town's institutions are the Mountainside See also:hospital, a See also:state normal school (1908), Montclair See also:academy (1887), a public library, and two See also:orphan asylums . An See also:annual See also:Bach festival was first held here in See also:June 1905 . The See also:lower See also:part of Montclair was settled about 1675 and gradually became known as Cranetown, which name it retained until 1812 . In that See also:year See also:Bloomfield, including Cranetown, was organized as a See also:separate township . In x868 Cranetown, then popularly known as See also:West Bloomfield, with the addition of the Dutch-settled Speertown, was incorporated as Montclair .
Montclair became a town in 1894
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See See also: There is See also:trade in See also:resin, See also:wine, See also:brandy, See also:timber, See also:cattle, horses and other live stock . Mont-de-Marsan, the first of the Bastides (q.v.) of the See also:middle ages, See also:dates from 1141, when it was founded by See also:Pierre, vicomte de Marsan, as the capital of his territory . In the 13th century it passed to the viscounts of See also:Beam, but the harsh See also:rule of Gaston Phoebus and some of his successors induced the See also:people to favour the See also:English . The territory was See also:united to the French See also:Crown on the See also:accession of Henry IV . |
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