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See also:

• ORANGE
• ORANGE (Citrus Aurantium)
• ORANGE, HOUSE OF

ORANGE  , a town of Essex county, New Jersey, U.S.A., in the N.E. part of the state, about 13 M . W. of New York City . Pop . (18go) 4358, (r000) 6889 (1772 foreign-born); (1905, state census) 7872; (1910) 10,980 . It is served by the Orange branch of the Erie railroad, and is connected with neighbouring towns and cities by electric lines . The town has an area of about 7 sq. m . It is crossed in a N.E. and S.W. direction by two ridges —the Hrst (also called the Orange or Watchung) Mountain and the Second Mountain . Eagle Rock (about 65o ft.), on the summit of First Mountain, commands a splendid view . On the eastern slope of First Mountain are Hutton Park, containing the grounds of the Essex County Country Club, and Llewellyn Park, a beautiful residential tract of 750 acres, named in honour of its originator, Llewellyn S . Haskell (1815-1872) . West Orange has various manufactures, including phonographs, lawn mowers and felt hats . In 1862 parts of the townships of Orange, Caldwell and Livingston were united into a new township named Fairmount .

In 1863 another part of Orange was added and the name of the new township was changed to West Orange . In woo West Orange was chartered as a town . See H . Whittemore, The Founders and Builders of the Oranges (

Newark, 1896) .