Wayne Township NJ history

Alongside her rest Joseph Layman’s son, the very first trustee in Wayne Township elected in 1820.

1830: Saddle River Township, which includes portions that later became Wayne, reports that 14 percent of households include slaves — the highest percentage of enslaved people to property owners of any future Passaic County township.

Edenton was then laid out August 12, 1837 by Silas V. Jordan.

But The Wayne Museum assembled a brief history of the township that goes back further than the April 12, 1847, establishment of the township.

The William Paterson College of New Jersey in Wayne was established in 1855.

In the year 1858, this Lodge purchased 4 acres of land from John Fuller, a local farmer, to be reserved for a cemetery.

1869: Schuyler Colfax, who led efforts to abolish chattel slavery as speaker of the House, becomes Vice President in the Ulysses S. Grant administration.

1916: Electricity comes to Wayne from Paterson, with power lines running along the Hamburg Turnpike from Ratzer Road.

When she was a young woman she fought to have the right to vote in this Country and went on to be one of the first women to run for office in the House of Representatives in the year 1922.

Andrew Long, whose body was brought back to Edenton in the year 1942.

1969: The Willowbrook Mall opens as the world's largest enclosed shopping center.