Noting that Plainfield last year had lost the Mack Truck Co. plant, he said industry will not come into this state until there is tax reform.

Plainfield is a city in Union County, New Jersey, United States.

Plainfield is nicknamed " The Queen City ".

Plainfield is located at ( 40. 615444 ,- 74. 415775 ).

Plainfield is in the Raritan Valley, a line of cities in central New Jersey, and lies on the east side of the Raritan Valley along with Edison.

In music history, Plainfield is known as the birthplace of P-Funk.

Plainfield is now home to former New Jersey governor James McGreevey.

In sports history, Plainfield is the birthplace of several current and former athletes, including professionals and well-known amateurs.

Plainfield is governed under a Special Charter granted by the New Jersey Legislature by a mayor and a seven-member City Council, all of whom serve four-year terms in office.

, the Mayor of the City of Plainfield is Sharon M. Robinson-Briggs ( D, term of office ends December 31, 2013 ).

Plainfield City is in the 6th Congressional district and is part of New Jersey's 22nd state legislative district.

Plainfield is also home to New Jersey's first high school focused on sustainability, the Barack Obama Green Charter High School.

The main Plainfield station is in the downtown and a second, smaller Netherwood station is in the Netherwood section, east of the downtown.

The county is divided into twenty-two townships: America, Brule, Chamberlain, Cleveland, Eagle, Highland, Kimball, Lyon, Ola, Plainfield, Pleasant Grove, Plummer, Pukwana, Red Lake, Richland, Smith, Torrey Lake, Waldro, West Point, Wilbur, Willow Lake, Union ; and one area of unorganized territory: Grandview.

Evanston is the birthplace of Tinkertoys, and Evanston, along with Ithaca, New York, Two Rivers, Wisconsin and Plainfield, Illinois also lays claim to having originated the ice cream sundae.

On May 20, 2010, George Clinton received a proclamation from Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs of Plainfield, New Jersey, the city in which he was raised, at a fundraiser for the Barack Obama Green Charter High School, which is focused creating leaders in sustainability for the 21st Century.

" Another suggested definition is " Plainfield Funk ", referring to Plainfield, New Jersey, the hometown of the band's original line-up.

Moosup is a village and census-designated place ( CDP ) in the town of Plainfield, Connecticut in the United States.

Plainfield is a town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States.

Plainfield is located at: 41. 6775 N, 71. 9220 W.

From the southernmost point, Plainfield is 20 miles inland of the Long Island Sound and Block Island Sound ( Atlantic Ocean ).

Augusta Gein operated a small grocery store and eventually purchased a farm on the outskirts of the small town of Plainfield, Wisconsin, which then became the Gein family's permanent home.

Only three municipalities in the county ( the town of Plainfield, the borough of Willimantic, and the Putnam Special Services District ), have their own local police departments that serve as the primary law enforcement in those areas.

The town comprises four villages: Plainfield ( south, ZIP code 06374 ), Moosup ( northeast, 06354 ), Wauregan ( northwest, 06387 ), and Central Village ( west, 06332 ).

Plainfield was incorporated in 1699 as the town of Quinebaug and renamed the following year to its current name.

Plainfield proved to be an industrial heavyweight in the 19th and early 20th centuries due largely to the ability of the Moosup and Quinebaug Rivers to provide power to the different mills throughout town.

Combined with the mills, Plainfield had incredible commerce for a small town because four railways from Hartford, New York, Boston, and Providence intersected within the town.

There is no direct air, passenger rail, or navigable water access to Plainfield, although the town is serviced by the Providence and Worcester Railroad ( freight only ), which also parallels the Connecticut Turnpike corridor.

The Plainfield Board of Education ( also Plainfield Public Schools ) is responsible for the operation of schools, and operates seven facilities throughout the town.

Plainfield Village is a village and census-designated place ( CDP ) in the town of Plainfield, Connecticut in the United States.

Plainfield High School in Plainfield will become a designated school of the town.

Wauregan is a village located in the northwestern corner of the town of Plainfield, Connecticut in the United States.

Clayton is a small town in Liberty Township, Hendricks County, Indiana, United States located on State Road 39, between Danville, Plainfield and Mooresville with easy access to Interstate 70.

Plainfield is a town in Guilford, Liberty and Washington townships, Hendricks County, Indiana, United States.

Plainfield became incorporated as a town in 1839.

The town got its name from the early Friends ( Quakers ) who settled around the area and established several meetinghouses throughout the county, including the important Western Yearly Meeting of Friends in Plainfield.

Plainfield has long been associated with the national road, U. S. Route 40, which goes through town as " Main Street.

The town is bordered by Florida to the north, Charlemont, Hawley and Plainfield to the east, Windsor to the south, Cheshire to the southwest, and Adams to the west.

The town originally included the land of its neighbor, Plainfield, which split off in the early nineteenth century.

: the towns of Windham, Lebanon, Plainfield, Canterbury,

Major highways through Windham County include Interstate 395, which runs north-south from the New London County line at Plainfield to the Massachusetts state line at Thompson.

* Nipmuck District serves the following communities: Ashford, Brooklyn, Canterbury, Chaplin, Columbia, Coventry, Danielson, Eastford, Hampton, Killingly, Lebanon, Mansfield, Moosup, Plainfield, Pomfret, Putnam, Quinebaug, Scotland, Stafford, Stafford Springs, Sterling, Storrs, Thompson, Willimantic, Willington, Windham and Woodstock