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Located in northeastern New Jersey some twenty minutes from Manhattan, Wood-Ridge was incorporated in 1894. Once a place of farms and woods, the borough was transformed first in the 1920s by Sunshine City, a thousand-house development, and then in the mid-1900s by the renowned airplane-engine manufacturer Curtiss-Wright Corporation, which built its headquarters here. Wood-Ridge highlights early landowners-among them the Brandenburgs and the Brinkerhoffs-and later people of accomplishment, including Grace Castagnetta, Frank Lovejoy, and Frankie Muniz. It also looks ahead to the proposed redevelopment of Westmont Station.
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- ISBN-13: 9780738535562
- ISBN-10: 0738535567
- Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
- Publish Date: May 2004
- Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.92 x 0.36 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.72 pounds
- Page Count: 128
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