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Woodbridge was settled in the early autumn of 1664 and was granted a charter on June 1, 1669 by King Charles II of England, and reincorporated on October 31, 1693.
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Michigan Governor Woodbridge Nathan Ferris and Ohio Governor Frank B. Willis shake on a truce over state line markers erected in 1915. Differences of opinion about the exact boundary location continued until a definitive re-survey was performed in 1915.
Between February 2006 and November 2008, the cloverleaf interchange with U. S. Route 1 / 9 in Woodbridge Township, which was the first cloverleaf interchange in the United States built in 1929 when this portion of Route 35 was still a part of Route 4, was replaced with a partial cloverleaf interchange, costing $ 34 million.
The County was a rural community for years and the population was centered in two areas, one at Manassas ( home to a major railroad junction ), the other near Occoquan and Woodbridge along the Potomac River.
The earliest record of Woodbridge dates from the mid-10th century, when it was acquired by St Aethelwold, bishop of Winchester, who made it a part of the endowment of the monastery he helped to refound at Ely, Cambridgeshire in AD 970.
Much of Woodbridge was granted to the powerful Bigod family, who built the famous castle at Framlingham.
Nonetheless, Woodbridge Priory was dissolved three years later.
Woodbridge has its own brass band, the Excelsior, which was formed in 1846 and is the oldest community brass band in East Anglia.
It was abolished for the 1950 general election when it was merged with the Woodbridge constituency to form Sudbury and Woodbridge.
Bethany was first settled in 1717, but it was not until May 1832 that Bethany separated from Woodbridge to become incorporated as a town.
In the mid-to-late 19th century, the population of the town and the land decreased as parts were annexed by the neighboring town of Woodbridge and the new town of Beacon Falls was incorporated into the general geography of Connecticut.
In 1954, a senior high school was built in Woodbridge to serve Woodbridge, Bethany, and Orange.
Woodbridge was originally called " Amity ", having been carved out of land originally belonging to New Haven and Milford as an independent parish in 1739.
Benjamin Woodbridge was ordained in Amity, and it is after him that the modern town was named.
Alford was first settled in 1756 as part of a purchase of land from the Shauanum Stockbridge Mahican tribe by a group led by Timothy Woodbridge.
* Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge ( 1739 – 1819 ) was a doctor, a colonel of the Massachusetts militia during the American Revolutionary War, and a member of the Massachusetts legislature.
Prior to the 2010 census, the unincorporated community of Woodbridge was split between the CDP's of North Woodbridge and South Woodbridge.
Woodbridge and settled
* Samuel Moore, settled in Newbury in 1634, and then emigrated to Woodbridge, New Jersey, where he held many offices in the fledgling colony
John Woodbridge, settled in Newbury in 1634 and married Mercy Dudley, daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley.
Edison Township, comprising former sections of Piscataway and Woodbridge townships, was settled ( by Europeans ) in the 17th Century.
The first settler was Horace Woodbridge, who arrived on June 4, 1833 ; Henry Miller settled tere later that same month.
They moved back to the south of England for the sake of Catherine ’ s health, and settled at Bury St Edmunds from 1806 to 1816, after which they lived at Playford Hall, halfway between Ipswich and Woodbridge, Suffolk.
He then settled at Hasketon near Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Woodbridge and early
* Jonathan Singletary Dunham, prominent early American settler of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, President Barack Obama's eighth great-grandfather
Because the settlers in the western part of the township were so far removed from the village of Woodbridge, they early developed a separate identity.
* An early settlement of Woodbridge, Ontario, founded between 1802-1837, now subsumed by Woodbridge
Pike is descended from John Pike, an early English immigrant as a child in 1635 and founder of Woodbridge, New Jersey in 1665.
Wade a. k. a. Wade Lavender by his early readers was born at Woodbridge, Suffolk.
* an early settlement of Woodbridge, Ontario, founded between 1802-1837, now subsumed by Woodbridge
She and Alan left Woodbridge in the late 60's and early 70's, leaving her sister, Amy, to be the only Ames left in Woodbridge.
Shaffer was born in Woodbridge, Connecticut, where she showed an interest in acting early on in her life.
By the early nineteenth century these were being referred to simply as Beccles, Bury St Edmunds, Ipswich and Woodbridge Divisions.
Outside the city, the Guelph line and the Woodbridge extension to the Weston Road line were abandoned early.
Clarke was a mainstay of the magazine as it rose in circulation, being one of four general-purpose artists who took Mad through the late 50s and early 60s, the others being Wallace Wood, George Woodbridge and Joe Orlando.
Woodbridge and granted
Towns were started and charters granted to Bergen ( 1668 ) Woodbridge ( 1669 ), Piscataway ( 1666 ), Shrewsbury, Middletown ( 1693 ) and Newark ( 1666 ).
In 1882 the CNJ and Pennsylvania Railroad agreed to use the line jointly, with trackage rights granted to the PRR over the Perth Amboy and Elizabethport between the Perth Amboy and Woodbridge crossing and its south end at the Raritan River bridge.
According to an interview Woodbridge granted to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Björkman wanted him to play more weeks on the tour, but Woodbridge wanted to limit his time away from his family as much as possible.
Woodbridge and on
Louis married Mary Woodbridge Goddard ( c1850-1884 ) on May 15, 1872 in Norwich, Connecticut and had the following children:
The mansion, built in 1788 by Colonel Woodbridge, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The town is served by Woodbridge railway station on the Ipswich-Lowestoft East Suffolk Line.
Replicas of some items, and the story of the finds, are to be found in the Woodbridge Museum, and the National Trust has built a Visitor Centre on the site.
As religious unrest continued in the reign of the Roman Catholic Mary Tudor, Alexander Gooch, a weaver of Woodbridge, and Alice Driver of Grundisburgh were burnt for heresy on Rushmere Heath.
The town center is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Woodbridge Green Historic District.
Standing on an old Cherokee place of worship, the historic Woodbridge Inn is famous for its menu options and its lodging.
Amboy Township was formed by an act of the Michigan Legislature on March 28, 1850, from Woodbridge Township and Ransom Township out of the partial survey townships 9 south ranges 2 and 3 west and the southern tier of sections from survey township 8 south ranges 2 and 3 west.
* Austin is an unincorporated community in the northwest part of the township, on the boundary with Woodbridge Township at.
A post office named Woodbridge had been established on December 14, 1840 and was renamed Cambria on June 1, 1841.
What is now Edison Township was originally incorporated as Raritan Township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1870, from portions of both Piscataway Township and Woodbridge Township.
* Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha ( BAPS ) has a Hindu temple on Woodbridge Avenue
The Edison Bridge on U. S. 9 and the Driscoll Bridge on the Garden State Parkway connect Woodbridge on the north with Sayreville on the south.
Sewaren is located in Woodbridge Township, NJ, and is located between the citys of Perth Amboy and Carteret, right on the waterfront across the Arthur Kill waterway from Staten Island NY, which is accessible from the Outerbridge Crossing just minutes away.
Woodbridge Township was incorporated by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798.
The Mayor of Woodbridge Township is John E. McCormac, who was first elected on November 7, 2006 and sworn in on November 14, 2006.
The Woodbridge Township School District served over 13, 000 students in kindergarten through twelfth grade in its 24 schools, based on 2009-10 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics.
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