The Car Barn

Above: looking NNE from Sussex Avenue area toward Main St in East Orange (where Orange St in Newark became Main St in East Orange)

                                               

                                     Above and  Below: the area on a 1911 map

                           Below: looking north from Sussex Avenue toward Main Street

                                                     Below: The Car Barn on an 1895 map

                                          Above: The Car Barn on an 1895 map

                                                     Below: 1892 map

                             Above: looking south from Main Street toward Sussex Avenue

                             Below: looking SSW from Main St toward Sussex Avenue

                                                                      Below: 1932 map

The Cloverlie

The Cloverlie was at 75 Lenox Avenue facing S. Walnut Street and it appears on an 1895 map where Lenox is called Orange Avenue.

Charles Jacob Vrooman, the second principal (1908-1922) of Stockton School lived at The Cloverlie until his death in 1922.

Above: The house shown on an 1895 map when Lenox Avenue was named Orange Street/Avenue

Below: The house on a 1911 map at 75 Lenox Avenue

Hotel Francis

Hotel Francis: 65 Prospect Street near SW corner of Prospect Street and Park Avenue

 Above: 1911 map

Below: 1895 map, where it's still listed as a dwelling ("D") rather than a hotel

Student Strike at Ashland School, 1936

The Double-Duty Finger Guild

A program to train and employ the blind at the Crocker-Wheeler factory in East Orange was started by company president Schuyler Wheeler in 1917 at the NE corner of N 15th Street and Park Avenue.

Ruth Lindsay, Founder of the Candy Stripers

In 1944 teacher Ruth Lindsay started the volunteer organization known as the Candy Stripers at Vernon L Davey Junior High School.  By the late 1950's, Miss Lindsay was a teacher at East Orange High School and had moved the program there.

                          Above: Miss Ruth Lindsay in the 1944 Vernon L Davey yearbook

                              The girls volunteered at East Orange General Hospital.

                              Below: from the 1958 East Orange High School yearbook

Debating Whether East Orange Should Accept a Carnegie Library

From the New York Times January 26, 1900:

But the offer from Andrew Carnegie was accepted and the East Orange Carnegie Library below opened in January 1903.

Re. the Orange/Stickler Library, mentioned in the article, from a history of Essex County: "The laying of the corner stone of the present library [Stickler library] took place at Essex Avenue and Main Street, June 25, 1900."