Plainfield was originally formed as a township on April 5, 1847, from portions of Westfield Township, while the area was still part of Essex County.

The city and township coexisted until March 6, 1878, when Plainfield Township was dissolved and parts were absorbed by Plainfield city, with the remainder becoming Fanwood Township ( now known as Scotch Plains ).

Plainfield was affected by the Plainfield riots in July 1967.

One Plainfield police officer died, about fifty people were injured, and several hundred thousand dollars of property was damaged by looting and arson.

Plainfield High School was the 307th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 322 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2010 cover story on the state's " Top Public High Schools ", after being ranked 293rd in 2008 out of 316 schools.

In 1917, Route 9 was designated by the state of New Jersey to run from Phillipsburg east to Elizabeth, passing through Clinton, Somerville, Plainfield, and Westfield.

Union County College was founded in 1933 and has campuses throughout the county, in Cranford, Elizabeth, Plainfield and Scotch Plains.

Clinton was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina ( allegedly in an outhouse ), grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey, and currently resides in Tallahassee, Florida.

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.

Parliament was originally The Parliaments, a doo-wop vocal group based at a Plainfield, New Jersey barbershop.

The area was first settled in the 1680s as Peagscomsuck, consisting mainly of land north of Norwich, south of New Roxbury, Massachusetts ( now Woodstock, Connecticut ) and west of the Quinebaug River and the Plainfield Settlement.

In 1703 it was officially separated from Plainfield and named as the Town of Canterbury.

Walter was raised in Moosup, Connecticut, where he played sandlot baseball with his brothers Milton and George, and attended Plainfield High School in Central Village, Connecticut, before attending the University of Connecticut.

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

* Dorrance Inn is a historic inn located at 748 Plainfield Pike and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

* Sterling Hill Historic District ( Plainfield and Sterling, Connecticut ) was added to the National Register in 1986.

In 1822 a tract of land which included the area now known as Plainfield was obtained by Jeremiah Hadley of Preble County, Ohio.

" One incident which brought Plainfield national attention occurred in 1842 when President Martin Van Buren was spilled deliberately from his stage coach into the thick mud of the highway.

Worrell was born in Long Branch, New Jersey and grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey.

Plainfield was first settled in 1770, primarily by settlers from the town of Bridgewater, and was officially incorporated as a district within the Town of Cummington in 1785, and as a town on June 15, 1807.

The settlements along the Quinebaug Valley were placed under New London jurisdiction in 1697 ( later incorporated as Plainfield in 1699 ).

Plainfield became incorporated as a town in 1839.

South Plainfield was incorporated by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 10, 1926, from portions of Piscataway Township, based on the results of a referendum passed on April 6, 1926.

Green Brook was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on November 8, 1932, replacing North Plainfield Township, based on the results of a referendum held that same day.

Watchung was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on May 23, 1926, from portions of North Plainfield Township ( now Green Brook Township ) based on the results of a referendum held on April 20, 1926.

What is now Scotch Plains was originally incorporated as Fanwood Township on March 6, 1878, by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature from portions of Plainfield Township and Westfield Township.

On April 11, 1868, the South Side Railroad was incorporated to connect the South Mountain Railroad, at the border of Berks and Lehigh Counties ( near Hamburg ) to the Delaware River, via Lehigh, Moore, or Plainfield Townships in Northampton County.

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

Comstock Park is a census-designated place located in Plainfield Township, Kent County, Michigan near the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.

The storm then worked its way southeast through the large city of Joliet, damaging homes in the Crystal Lawns, Lily Cache and Warwick subdivisions killing 5 more people, one in Lily Cache subdivision of Plainfield, and two each in Crystal Lawns and Warwick subdivisions ; an additional 3 people would later succumb from injuries sustained during the storm.

The family moved to Plainfield, Iowa, and when Scott was ten years old, to Delavan, Wisconsin, a city of about 8, 000, where his father became a prominent preacher.

He returned to Plainfield in 1949 and continued to practice law, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the New Jersey General Assembly in 1951 and for city councilman in 1952.

* Plainfield Township, Union County, New Jersey ( dissolved, now the city of Plainfield, New Jersey )

The 1967 Plainfield riots occurred during the same period in Plainfield, New Jersey, a city about 18 miles southwest of Newark.

As a church musician, James Litton has had earlier appointments in Charleston, West Virginia, his native city ; in Plainfield, New Jersey ; in Southport, Connecticut ; at the Episcopal Cathedral in Indianapolis, Indiana, and at Trinity Church in Princeton, New Jersey.

The school's address, phone number, and school district belong to Plainfield, however, the school is within the Joliet city limits.

Many long time residents of Plainfield stated that " outside agitators " who did not live in Plainfield came in to the city to provoke violence and to " rile up " the community.

In the summer of 1967, urban residents, primarily African Americans, rioted for five days in Newark and the neighboring city of Plainfield.

Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho, Morris visited Plainfield, Wisconsin in 1975.

He died on 27 March 2002, as a result of pneumonia, secondary to immobility caused by the palsy, in Plainfield, New Jersey.

Plainfield has a humid continental climate, characterized by brisk to cold winters and hot, muggy summers.

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.

Plainfield Teacher's College, a mythical institution created as a hoax by a duo of college football fans in 1941.

* In October 2010, former Plainfield music teacher Anwar Robinson and performer Yolanda Adams joined with community residents to try to be recognized by Guinness World Records for assembling the world's largest gospel chorus.

During his teen years Clinton formed a doo wop group inspired by Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers called The Parliaments while straightening hair at a barber salon in Plainfield.

The P-Funk story began in 1956 in Plainfield, New Jersey, with a doo-wop group formed by fifteen-year-old George Clinton.

Plainfield is bisected by the Connecticut Turnpike ( I-395 and CT 695 ) and is serviced by three exits: Lathrop Road at exit 87, CT 14A at exit 88, and CT 14 at exit 89.

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.

Plainfield's public education system is run by the Plainfield Community School Corporation.

Private schools in Plainfield include Plainfield Christian School, which is run by Calvary Bible Wesleyan Church of Plainfield, and Saint Susanna Catholic School, which is run by St. Susanna Catholic Church of Plainfield.