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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.
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Plainfield was incorporated as a city by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 21, 1869, from portions of Plainfield Township, based on the results of a referendum held that same day.
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.
Plainfield and originally
The town originally included the land of its neighbor, Plainfield, which split off in the early nineteenth century.
The area that would become Cannon Township was originally attached to neighboring Plainfield.
What is now Green Brook was originally created as North Plainfield Township on April 2, 1872, from portions of Warren Township.
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.
The institution originally began in Plainfield, Illinois as Plainfield College.
Plainfield and formed
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 collective's origins date back to the doo-wop group The Parliaments, formed in the late 1950s in Plainfield, New Jersey.
The P-Funk story began in 1956 in Plainfield, New Jersey, with a doo-wop group formed by fifteen-year-old George Clinton.
The Parliaments were a doo-wop quintet from Plainfield, New Jersey, formed in the back room of a barbershop in the late 1950s and named after the cigarette brand.
The Town of Winfield was formed from parts of Richfield, Plainfield ( both in Otsego County ), and Litchfield ( Herkimer County ) in 1816.
: Richfield was formed from Town of Otsego, New York on April 10, 1792. towns of Exeter and Plainfield were taken off in 1799.
The campus in Plainfield was initially formed into a school in 1938 from the various shingle style buildings on a late 19th century model farm: The Greatwood Estate.
Plainfield and township
Plainfield Township is a civil township of Iosco County in the U. S. state of Michigan.
In 1845 the township was split from Plainfield and took its present name.
* South Branch is an unincorporated community in the township along the eastern boundary with Plainfield Township in Iosco County at It was founded in 1887 and given a post office named " Hunt " in January 1889.
After a hotly contested debate between those who favored the name Plainfield ( after the stage stop and post office ) and those who favored the name Hector, a township in New York on the east shore of Seneca Lake where many of the early settlers came from.
Portions of the township were taken to form North Plainfield borough ( June 9, 1885 ) and Watchung ( March 23, 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.
The south-eastern half of the original township ( which was close to a railroad and contained most of the population ) was separated off as North Plainfield Township on April 2, 1872.
Portions of the township have been taken to form Rahway Township ( February 27, 1804 ), Plainfield Township ( April 5, 1847 ), Cranford Township ( March 14, 1871 ), Fanwood Township ( March 6, 1878, now known as Scotch Plains ), Mountainside ( September 25, 1895 ) and Hillside ( April 3, 1913 ).
Plainfield Township is a township in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States.
The first record of the township separate from Plainfield is on April 6, 1846.
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