When surveying the area now known as Maplewood, Robert Treat found several trails used by Lenape tribes of AlgonquianNative Americans, though there was only sparse pre-European settlement. These paths form the basis for what are the township's modern-day thoroughfares.[23]
The first European settlers arrived around 1675, primarily English, Dutch and FrenchPuritans who had earlier settled Hempstead, Long Island (1643), New Haven, Connecticut (1638), and Stamford, Connecticut (1640), via Newark (1666) and Elizabeth (1664). They had acquired most of today's Essex County from the Native Americans through direct purchase upon first arrival and through royal assent. These early settlers then followed three trails that roughly correspond to South Orange Avenue, Springfield Avenue and Ridgewood Road into present-day Maplewood. These three routes resulted in the development of three separate communities that coalesced to become Maplewood and South Orange.[23] Those who came from Newark on the trail that now corresponds to South Orange Avenue settled the area that became South Orange village.[23]
Six families (with last names of Smith, Brown, Pierson, Freeman, Ball and Gildersleeve) came up today's Ridgewood Road and established scattered farms around a center that became Jefferson Village, named after Thomas Jefferson. This settlement, which roughly corresponds to downtown Maplewood today, developed several mills and orchards. John Durand, the son of Hudson River School painter Asher Brown Durand (who was born in Maplewood in 1796), describes the place as a picturesque but slightly backward community with close ties to Springfield. The apple harvest was apparently quite impressive and included the "Harrison" and "Canfield" varieties. By 1815, there were approximately 30 families in the community. Although the residents of the area were predominantly Presbyterian, the first house of worship was a Baptist chapel in 1812. This was in use until 1846 and fell into disrepair until 1858, when it was taken into use as a Methodist Episcopal church.[23]
Those who came up today's Springfield Avenue settled on a hill crest near today's intersection between Tuscan and Springfield Avenue and established a hamlet known as North Farms. Over time, this community became known as the Hilton section. It became a stagecoach stop between Newark, Jersey City (then Paulus Hook), and Morristown and thereby a center for trade and light manufacturing. The village changed its name from North Farms to Middleville in 1830, and then to Hilton in 1880 when it was granted a post office. In 1855, Seth Boyden settled in what was then Middleville to retire but innovated a number of agricultural products, especially berries. Boyden also built and put into operation the first steam engines to service the railroad through Maplewood.[24] The area became known for its orchards and related industries, including cider mills and rum distilleries, as well as honey and livestock.[citation needed]
In 1802, Jefferson Village and North Farms were named as districts within the Township of Newark.[25]
The three communities developed and functioned independently, each establishing their own school associations: South Orange established the Columbian School in 1814, which would form the basis of Columbia High School; North Farms established the North Farms Association in 1817; and Jefferson Village the Jefferson Association in 1818. In 1867, when the State of New Jersey established public education through the School Law, the newly appointed County Superintendent merged the three associations into one school district, which was formalized in 1894 as the South Orange-Maplewood School District. James Ricalton, a teacher born in New York of Scottish parents who became the school district's first permanent teacher, helped set the high standard of education that persists in the school district to this day.[26]
Maplewood was originally formed as South Orange Township, which was created on April 1, 1861, from portions of Clinton Township and what was then the Town of Orange. Portions of the township were taken to form South Orange village (established May 4, 1869, within the township and became fully independent on March 4, 1904) and Vailsburg borough (formed March 28, 1894, and annexed by Newark on January 1, 1905) The name of the township was changed to Maplewood on November 7, 1922.[27]
When the Morris and Essex Railroad from Newark was extended to the area in 1838, a land speculator by the name of John Shedden built a railroad station in Jefferson Village and named it Maplewood. This name came to comprise areas known as Hilton, Jefferson Village, and areas previously part of Springfield.[28] In 1868, farms were subdivided into parcels for residential housing and the area became a commuter suburb.[29]
Edward Balch (1858–1934) was a homebuilder who envisioned Maplewood as a suburban community and starting around 1900 developed a total of 176 homes in the township, earning him recognition by The New York Times as the "Father of Maplewood."[30][31]
The 1920s saw significant growth in new residents and structures.[citation needed]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township had a total area of 3.88 square miles (10.04 km2), including 3.87 square miles (10.03 km2) of land and <0.01 square miles (0.01 km2) of water (0.08%).[1][2] A pond is in Memorial Park, the Rahway River runs through the township and there is a municipal pool club with four man-made pools of water; the remainder of the area is land.
Maplewood township, Essex County, New Jersey – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.
The 2010 United States census counted 23,867 people, 8,240 households, and 6,287 families in the township. The population density was 6,155.3 per square mile (2,376.6/km2). There were 8,608 housing units at an average density of 2,220.0 per square mile (857.1/km2). The racial makeup was 56.27% (13,430) White, 35.30% (8,426) Black or African American, 0.18% (44) Native American, 3.04% (725) Asian, 0.03% (6) Pacific Islander, 1.82% (434) from other races, and 3.36% (802) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 6.68% (1,595) of the population.[20]
Of the 8,240 households, 42.8% had children under the age of 18; 57.8% were married couples living together; 14.5% had a female householder with no husband present and 23.7% were non-families. Of all households, 19.1% were made up of individuals and 9.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.89 and the average family size was 3.33.[20]
28.3% of the population were under the age of 18, 6.4% from 18 to 24, 24.9% from 25 to 44, 29.5% from 45 to 64, and 11.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39.6 years. For every 100 females, the population had 90.6 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 85.4 males.[20]
The Census Bureau's 2006–2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income was $101,463 (with a margin of error of +/− $6,610) and the median family income was $122,102 (+/− $9,324). Males had a median income of $83,656 (+/− $10,885) versus $57,422 (+/− $5,551) for females. The per capita income for the borough was $47,404 (+/− $2,404). About 1.5% of families and 2.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.5% of those under age 18 and 3.1% of those age 65 or over.[51]
As of the 2000 United States census[16] there were 23,868 people, 8,452 households, and 6,381 families residing in the township. The population density was 6,207.1 inhabitants per square mile (2,396.6/km2). There were 8,615 housing units at an average density of 2,240.4 per square mile (865.0/km2). The racial makeup of the township was 58.78% White, 32.63% Black, 0.13% Native American, 2.86% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 1.56% from other races, and 4.01% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.23% of the population.[44][45]
There were 8,452 households, out of which 40.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.2% were married couples living together, 13.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.5% were non-families. 20.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.81 and the average family size was 3.27.[44][45]
In the township, the age distribution of the population shows 28.0% under the age of 18, 5.6% from 18 to 24, 30.2% from 25 to 44, 24.0% from 45 to 64, and 12.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.1 males.[44][45]
The median income for a household in the township was $79,637, and the median income for a family was $92,724. Males had a median income of $57,572 versus $41,899 for females. The per capita income for the township was $36,794. 4.4% of the population and 3.4% of families were below the poverty line. 4.9% of those under the age of 18 and 6.0% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.[44][45]
In 2018 Brooke Lea Foster of The New York Times described Maplewood as one of several "least suburban of suburbs, each one celebrated by buyers there for its culture and hip factor, as much as the housing stock and sophisticated post-city life."[52]
The township owns and operates the Burgdorff Center for the Performing Arts at 10 Durand Road. The Center, a former Christian Science Church, was donated to the town by Jean Burgdorff, a local real estate entrepreneur.[53] The building was transferred to the town on October 15, 1988.[54] In 2008, the township committed to a $130,000 plan to improve the building.[55]
Every year, on the weekend following the weekend closest to July 4, there is a concert in town called Maplewoodstock. The free concert consists of local and national bands performing alongside various stalls showcasing local businesses.[56]
Many of the more recognizable buildings and spaces were the work of famous architects and landscape designers. Most of the schools and the Municipal Building were the work of Guilbert & Betelle. The center of town is dominated by Memorial Park, a design of the Olmsted Brothers.[57] The Olmsted firm was also responsible for the landscaping at Ward Homestead, designed by John Russell Pope, and now known as Winchester Gardens, located on Elmwood Avenue. On the opposite side of town is another Olmsted work, South Mountain Reservation. The Maplewood Theater, designed by William E. Lehman, was where Cheryl Crawford first revived Porgy and Bess.[58]
UltimateFrisbee (now called simply "Ultimate") was invented in Maplewood in 1968 by students at Columbia High School. A plaque commemorating the birthplace of Ultimate Frisbee is located in the student parking lot.[59]
Maplewood is the birthplace of the wooden golf tee, invented by William Lowell at the Maplewood Golf Club in 1921.[60]
In the 2007 film Gracie, the plot is set in and partially filmed in Maplewood and Columbia High School. Producer Andrew Shue and actress Elisabeth Shue both attended Columbia, and the plot is loosely based on their lives during high school.[61]
The main character of the Robert Sheckley novel Dimension of Miracles, Thomas Carmody, is from Maplewood. He revisits the town, albeit one belonging in an alternate universe, late in the book.[citation needed]
Memorial Park is a 25-acre (10 ha) park adjacent to the railway station, designed in the 1920s by landscape architects Brinley and Holbrook and the Olmsted Brothers that has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[64] Other town parks include Maplecrest Park, DeHart Park and Milo S. Borden Park.
Maplewood is governed under the Township form of government, one of 141 municipalities (of the 564) statewide that use this form.[67] The governing body is a Township Committee, which is comprised of five members who are elected directly by the voters at-large in partisan elections to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either one or two seats coming up for election each year as part of the November general election in a three-year cycle.[7][68] At an annual reorganization meeting, the Township Committee selects one of its members to serve as Mayor for a one-year term, and another to serve as Deputy Mayor. The Mayor has the responsibility of Chair for the Township Committee meetings with voice and vote. The Mayor is considered the head of the municipal government.[69]
The Township Committee is the legislative body of the municipality and is responsible for enacting the township's laws. The Township Committee is also an executive body. Under this form of government, the elected Township Committee sets policy and overall direction for the Township. The Township staff, under the direction of the Township Administrator, carries out Committee policy and provides day to day services. The Township Administrator serves as the chief administrative officer and is accountable to the Township Committee.[69]
As of 2023[update], members of the Maplewood Township Committee are Mayor Dean Dafis (D, term on committee and as mayor ends December 31, 2023), Deputy Mayor Deborah Engel (D, term on committee ends 2025; term as deputy mayor ends 2023), Nancy J. Adams (D, 2024), Jamaine L. Cripe (D, 2024) and Victor De Luca (D, 2023).[3][70][71][72][73][74]
Fire protection in the township is provided by the South Essex Fire Department, which was formed in July 2022 as the successor to the former Maplewood Fire Department and South Orange Fire Department.[75]
Essex County is governed by a directly elected county executive, with legislative functions performed by the Board of County Commissioners. As of 2024[update], the County Executive is Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. (D, Roseland), whose four-year term of office ends December 31, 2026.[85] The county's Board of County Commissioners is composed of nine members, five of whom are elected from districts and four of whom are elected on an at-large basis. They are elected for three-year concurrent terms and may be re-elected to successive terms at the annual election in November.[86] Essex County's Commissioners are:
Constitutional officers elected countywide are:
Clerk Christopher J. Durkin (D, West Caldwell, 2025),[100][101]
Register of Deeds Juan M. Rivera Jr. (D, Newark, 2025),[102][103]
Sheriff Armando B. Fontoura (D, Fairfield, 2024),[104][105] and
Surrogate Alturrick Kenney (D, Newark, 2028).[106][107]
As of March 2011, there were a total of 16,399 registered voters in Maplewood, of which 9,306 (56.7%) were registered as Democrats, 1,439 (8.8%) were registered as Republicans and 5,645 (34.4%) were registered as Unaffiliated. There were 9 voters registered as Libertarians or Greens.[108]
In the 2012 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 84.4% of the vote (10,007 cast), ahead of Republican Mitt Romney with 14.9% (1,764 votes), and other candidates with 0.8% (91 votes), among the 11,924 ballots cast by the township's 17,391 registered voters (62 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 68.6%.[109][110] In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 81.9% of the vote (10,649 cast), ahead of Republican John McCain with 16.6% (2,156 votes) and other candidates with 0.7% (90 votes), among the 13,003 ballots cast by the township's 16,523 registered voters, for a turnout of 78.7%.[111] In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat John Kerry received 76.3% of the vote (9,113 ballots cast), outpolling Republican George W. Bush with 22.7% (2,709 votes) and other candidates with 0.6% (90 votes), among the 11,943 ballots cast by the township's 15,289 registered voters, for a turnout percentage of 78.1.[112]
In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Democrat Barbara Buono received 69.0% of the vote (4,833 cast), ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 29.6% (2,074 votes), and other candidates with 1.4% (97 votes), among the 7,116 ballots cast by the township's 17,502 registered voters (112 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 40.7%.[113][114] In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Democrat Jon Corzine received 72.2% of the vote (5,871 ballots cast), ahead of Republican Chris Christie with 20.3% (1,650 votes), Independent Chris Daggett with 6.2% (507 votes) and other candidates with 0.8% (65 votes), among the 8,135 ballots cast by the township's 16,202 registered voters, yielding a 50.2% turnout.[115]
Maplewood is a diverse and family-friendly community. The township has a downtown area alternatively known as "the village" or "Maplewood Center". The structure of the downtown is largely unchanged since the 1950s. Maplewood won New Jersey Monthly magazine's Downtown Showdown in 2015, with the editor's noting the community's "myriad boutiques, art galleries and notable restaurants".[116]
Maplewood counts among its residents a large number of theater professionals working in Broadway and off-Broadway productions, owing to the town's convenient rail access and relatively short commute via train into Manhattan. In 2010, a group of 32 of these actors and technicians formed their own repertory theater company and named it Midtown Direct Rep, after the NJ Transit line on which they all commuted.[119]
Maplewood is part of the unified South Orange-Maplewood School District, together with the neighboring community of South Orange. The district has a single high school (located in Maplewood), two middle schools, a central pre-school, and neighborhood elementary schools in each municipality. As of the 2019–20 school year, the district, comprised of 11 schools, had an enrollment of 7,353 students and 576.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.8:1.[120] Schools in the district (with 2019–20 school enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[121]) are
Montrose Early Childhood Center[122] (133 students, in Pre-K; located in Maplewood),
Seth Boyden Elementary Demonstration School[123] (493 students, in grades K–5 located in Maplewood),
Clinton Elementary School[124] (605, K–5; Maplewood),
Jefferson Elementary School[125] (544, 3–5; Maplewood),
Marshall Elementary School[126] (518, K–2; South Orange),
South Mountain Elementary School[127] (647, K–5; South Orange),
South Mountain Elementary School Annex[128] (NA, K–1; South Orange),
Tuscan Elementary School[129] (K–5, 637; Maplewood),
Maplewood Middle School[130] (827, 6–8; Maplewood),
South Orange Middle School[131] (786, 6–8; South Orange) and
Columbia High School[132] (1,967, 9–12; Maplewood).[133][134]
There are approximately 226 streets within Maplewood. Springfield Avenue is a state highway (Route 124),[137] from Irvington to Morristown, and four thoroughfares are Essex County roads (Valley Street, Millburn Avenue, Irvington Avenue, Wyoming Avenue), including County Route 577.[138]
Juliette Atkinson (1873–1944), tennis player who won the US Open singles title three times, in addition to seven US Open titles in doubles and three in mixed doubles[150]
Kathleen Atkinson (1875–1957), tennis player who won two US Open doubles titles together with her sister Juliette[150]
Amos E. Joel Jr. (1918–2008), electrical engineer who invented a switching device that allowed for the creation of cell phones, among his more than 70 patents[188]
Ibtihaj Muhammad (born 1985), former sabre fencer and on the U.S. fencing team, best known for being the first Muslim woman to wear a hijab to compete for the U.S. team at the 2016 Summer Olympics[203]
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), spent several summers in Maplewood visiting his uncle Cornelius V.S. Roosevelt's home and property, known as The Hickories, covering 100 acres (0.40 km2), an area now partly covered by Roosevelt Road and Kermit Road[214]
^ abTownship Committee, Maplewood Township. Accessed February 16, 2023. "The Township of Maplewood operates under the Township Committee form of government, in which the five members are elected at-large to staggered three-year terms. The elections are partisan."
^Township Administration, Maplewood Township. Accessed February 16, 2023."The current Interim Township Administrator is Gregg Shuster, who was appointed in 2022."
^Township Clerk, Maplewood Township. Accessed February 16, 2023.
^Seth Boyden, Durand-Hedden, October 27, 2005. Accessed November 5, 2019. "Seth Boyden, 'one of America’s greatest inventors,' according to Thomas Edison, spent the last 15 years of his life in 'Middleville'—what is now Hilton. Although Newark was the site of most of his innovations and inventions, it is in the Hilton neighborhood of Maplewood where he is honored by both 'Boyden Avenue' and 'Seth Boyden Elementary School.'"
^James Ricalton Lantern Slide CollectionArchived November 5, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, St. Lawrence University Library. Accessed November 5, 2019. "After briefly attending St. Lawrence University (class of 1871) Ricalton left before taking a degree and moved to Maplewood, New Jersey in 1871 where he worked as a school teacher. By all accounts, he was an extraordinary teacher, and his legacy is celebrated in the South Orange-Maplewood School District."
^Capuzzo, Jill P. "Living In; Maplewood, N.J.: If Brooklyn Were a Suburb", The New York Times, October 8, 2014. Accessed November 5, 2019. "John Shedden, a real estate developer, built a train station in what is now Maplewood, then known as Jefferson Village, to access the Morris and Essex Railroad, which was extended there in 1838."
^Porter, Robert Percival. Preliminary Results as Contained in the Eleventh Census Bulletins: Volume III - 51 to 75, p. 98. United States Census Bureau, 1890. Accessed July 15, 2013. Population for South Orange Township is listed as 3,911 for 1880 and 4,970 for 1890, which includes the population of South Orange borough, listed as 2,178 in 1880 and 3,106 in 1890. Subtraction yields a total of 1,733 for 1880 and 1,864 for 1890. The total shown in the table for 1890 of 1,078 excludes the 1890 population of 786 for Vailsburg.
^Foster, Brooke Lea. "Comparing Suburbs: Montclair in New Jersey vs. Dobbs Ferry in New York", The New York Times|, February 23, 2018. Accessed February 10, 2020. "With those requirements, they found themselves exploring the nearby suburbs to which many reluctant city dwellers have traveled a well-trodden path: Maplewood and Montclair, in New Jersey; and the Rivertowns in Westchester, including Dobbs Ferry, Hastings-on-Hudson, Tarrytown, Irvington and Ardsley (although the latter is not technically on the river). Call them the least suburban of suburbs, each one celebrated by buyers there for its culture and hip factor, as much as the housing stock and sophisticated post-city life."
^Gialanella, Donna. "Jean Burgdorff", The Star-Ledger, December 28, 2007. Accessed September 8, 2012. "In the 1980s, she bought a Christian Science Church in Maplewood for $500,000 and donated it to the town for a community center, now called the Burgdorff Cultural Center."
^"Maplewood Theater Stirs Memories", The New York Times, October 2, 1988. Accessed September 22, 2013. "The Maplewood was, at that time, in the very capable hands of Cheryl Crawford, a theater-wise executive from Manhattan who had been one of the founders of the illustrious Group Theater.... Miss Crawford topped it all off with a revival of Porgy and Bess that went into the Ziegfeld Theater in New York for a long run."
^Caldwell, Dave. "Still Competing at Ultimate Frisbee's Birthplace", The New York Times, November 13, 2008. Accessed August 5, 2013. "The lot is still there, its surface cracked and rutted with potholes. In the corner is a stone marker, erected in 1989, with a circular plaque carrying an inscription: 'Birthplace of Ultimate Frisbee, created by Columbia High School students in 1968.'"
^Bulger, Adam. "Blog: Philip Roth's Memories of Maplewood", Maplewood, NJ Patch, February 12, 2009. Accessed November 5, 2019. "It shouldn't be a surprise that Philip Roth made a passing reference to Maplewood in his early novella, Goodbye Columbus. The Portnoy's Complaint author is after all, from Newark, where GC is set."
^About, Maplewood Memorial Park Conservancy. Accessed June 29, 2022.
^South Mountain Reservation, Essex County Park System. Accessed June 29, 2022. "The South Mountain Reservation, covering 2,110 acres, is a nature reserve that is part of the Essex County Park System. It is located in central in portions of Maplewood, Millburn and West Orange, and borders South Orange, between the first and second ridges of the Watchung Mountains."
^About the Rahway River Watershed, Rahway River Watershed Association. Accessed December 1, 2016. "The East Branch originates between West Orange and Orange and travels through South Orange and Maplewood. "
^ abAbout Us, Township of Maplewood. Accessed February 16, 2023. "Maplewood is governed under the Township form of government with a five-member Township Committee. The Township Committee is elected directly by the voters in partisan elections to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with one or two seats coming up for election each year. At an annual reorganization meeting, the Township Committee selects one of its members to serve as Mayor for a one year term, and another to serve as Deputy Mayor."
^"Maplewood, South Orange fire department merger appears to be working well, leaders say", Essex News Daily, August 14, 2022. Accessed July 5, 2023. "The South Orange and Maplewood fire departments were dissolved and combined into the South Essex Fire Department on July 1, finally ending a years-long saga that saw debate over whether or not the two departments should become one. The merger was finalized in April, when both the South Orange Board of Trustees and the Maplewood Township Committee passed resolutions authorizing the towns to form a regional fire service; the first joint meeting was held on April 8."
^General Information, Essex County, New Jersey. Accessed July 20, 2020. "The County Executive, elected from the County at-large, for a four-year term, is the chief political and administrative officer of the County.... The Board of Chosen Freeholders consists of nine members, five of whom are elected from districts and four of whom are elected at-large. They are elected for three-year concurrent terms and may be re-elected to successive terms at the annual election in November. There is no limit to the number of terms they may serve."
^Dryfoos, Delanwy. "Town permanently painted crosswalk rainbow, because LGBT pride never goes away", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, June 7, 2018. Accessed November 5, 2019. "In Maplewood, LGBT pride doesn't just happen during Pride Month in June. And officials in town are proving it with a permanent change to a busy township intersection. Maplewood plans to unveil Thursday permanent rainbow striped crosswalks -- joining just a few other towns in the world that have done the same thing."
^Delo, Cotton. "CHS '99 Grad Starts Foundation for Nigerian Girls Mobolaji Akiode, 27, recently started Hope4GirlsAfrica, a non-profit designed to increase young African women's participation in sports.", South Orange, NJ Patch, February 1, 2010. Accessed February 10, 2020. "'There's never a wrong time to do the right thing,' said Akiode, 27, a 1999 graduate of Columbia High School, where she started playing basketball under Coach Johanna Wright, who bought her her first pair of basketball sneakers and with whom she still speaks constantly. Akiode came back to Maplewood for a two-week stretch, but she's currently based in Lagos, Nigeria, the country where she spent much of her childhood, though she lived in the U.S. for good starting in the early '90s."
^Carter, Barry. "Salute this N.J. native. The Army’s top dentist is busting down racial barriers.", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, March 14, 2019. Accessed February 23, 2022. "Shan K. Bagby didn’t know much about dentistry, but as an 8-year-old boy growing up in Newark, meeting a dentist in the 1970s stuck with him. The gentleman was African-American, like him.... He took advantage of his intellectual curiosity as a kid, who moved around a lot, before settling in Maplewood long enough to graduate in 1985 from Columbia High School."
^Haithman, Diane. "The man behind the band at USC", Los Angeles Times, September 4, 2011. Accessed February 10, 2020. "What is the Trojan style, exactly? Bartner is the best guy to ask — he developed it. Raised in Maplewood, N.J., a trumpet player and jazz enthusiast with a doctorate in music education from the University of Michigan, Bartner was teaching high school music in that state when he was recruited by USC because of his history with the highly regarded Michigan band."
^Seth Boyden Statue, Newark History. Accessed September 8, 2012. "Later on Boyden invented a made-to-order fire engine for Newark. The historical record ends with Boyden living in what is now Maplewood (then called Hilton), breeding a larger strawberry."
^Strauss, Bob. "Why America loves Zach Braff", Los Angeles Daily News, September 12, 2006. Accessed May 1, 2016. "But the fact Braff didn't enter the family business might have something to do with growing up in Maplewood, New Jersey, and attending Columbia High School there."
^Yu, Roger. "20-year-old YouTuber is tech reviewing star", USA Today, March 3, 2015. Accessed May 1, 2016. "Brownlee's interest in technology wasn't spotted early, but his sense of curiosity and poise have always stood out, say his parents, Jeaniene and Marlon Brownlee, who raised Brownlee and his sister, Simone, in Maplewood, N.J."
^Fowler, Linda A. "Twain role is no drag for Butz", The Star-Ledger, January 9, 2008. Accessed January 27, 2011. "Butz's frisky performance won flat-out raves. More than one critic dubbed the Maplewood resident the funniest guy on Broadway."
^Schweber, Nate. "Maplewood's Birnbaum Traces Open Road to City Music Success", MaplewoodPatch, April 9, 2010. Accessed July 1, 2011. "Musically it's a long way from Maplewood to Joe's Pub, a classy and revered Manhattan performance space that has showcased hundreds of renowned musicians including Pete Townsend, Elvis Costello and Bono. Jeremiah Birnbaum, a roots-minded, guitar-slinging songwriter who grew up in Maplewood, has made both journeys."
^Jordan, Chris; and Biese, Alex. "Drum roll, please: New Jersey’s 12 greatest drummers", Asbury Park Press, August 28, 2016. Accessed September 2, 2022. "Claude Coleman Jr. (Maplewood) — When alt-rockers want to get weird without looking their grounding in the groove, they know to call on Maplewood native Claude Coleman Jr."
^"Remembering and Honoring Maplewood’s Lee Sackett", The Village Green of Maplewood and South Orange, June 21, 2015. Accessed October 15, 2024. "When Maplewood’s Lee Sackett was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April, his widow Maura Sackett graciously spent some time on the phone for an interview and sent some photos."
^"Essex County Dedicates Plaque for Raymond Durkin", The Village Green of Maplewood and South Orange, April 22, 2015. Accessed February 10, 2020. "Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. (at right in photo) dedicated a bronze plaque honoring the life and legacy of the late Raymond M. Durkin on Wednesday, April 22.... The plaque was placed on the promenade in the Essex County Government Complex to raise awareness about Mr. Durkin’s contributions to Essex County. He was a resident of Maplewood when he passed away on December 23, 2014, at the age of 78."
^"Shorts", Jewish Post, January 9, 1948. Accessed August 24, 2022. "Pablo Eisenberg of Maplewood, N. J. was beaten in the finale of the national indoor boys event by Fred Jax of Hamtramck, Mich. 4-6, 6-3 and 6-2."
^Staff. "Philly.com: Top Neo-Nazi Shock Jock Grew Up in Maplewood NJ", Village Green of Maplewood and South Orange, October 26, 2017. Accessed July 3, 2019. "According to a report on Philly.com today, neo-Nazi shock jock and white supremacist Mike Enoch grew up in Maplewood NJ and attended Columbia High School."
^Lenfield, Spencer Lee. "Line by Line; Poet and translator David Ferry", Harvard Magazine, May–June 2015. Accessed May 19, 2024. "He was raised in Maplewood, New Jersey, a suburb west of Newark, with his father’s extended family scattered across neighboring towns."
^Loos, Ted. "A Man on an Eco-Mission in Mixed Media", The New York Times, August 29, 2017. Accessed May 23, 2020. "Mr. Guariglia grew up in Maplewood, N.J., and was a freelance photojournalist based in Asia for 20 years, taking pictures for The New York Times, Time, National Geographic and others."
^Hamilton, Matt. "Jules Heningburg: Maplewood Kid to Tewaaraton Candidate", USA Lacrosse Magazine, April 12, 2018. Accessed May 16, 2021. "After a baptism under fire during his freshman year at Rutgers, senior Jules Heningburg is reaching his peak in the college lacrosse world at just the right time for the Scarlet Knights.... It’s quire an achievement for a player that didn’t attract much attention from top-tier Division I programs coming out of Seton Hall Prep (N.J.).... But it comes as no surprise given his upbringing in the lacrosse hotbed of Maplewood, N.J."
^Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey, Volume 165, p. 242. J.A. Fitzgerald, 1941. Accessed December 27, 2022. "R. Graham Huntington (Rep., Maplewood) Mr. Huntington was born in Newark, New Jersey, on May 17, 1897."
^Cutler, Jacqueline. "N.J. actor commands the Broadway stage as Neil Diamond", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, August 23, 2023. "Mark Jacoby is that rarity — he earns more as an actor than he did as a lawyer. The Maplewood resident stars on Broadway as present-day Neil Diamond in A Beautiful Noise, where he recounts his life to a therapist, played by Linda Powell."
^Meoli, Daria. "That's Entertainment"Archived 2005-12-14 at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Monthly, October 2005. Accessed December 26. "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart is still the best fake newscast on TV, thanks to Lawrenceville native Stewart and head writer and Maplewood native David Javerbaum."
^Martin, Andrew. "Amos E. Joel Jr., Cellphone Pioneer, Dies at 90", The New York Times, October 27, 2008. Accessed June 27, 2016. "Amos E. Joel Jr., an inventor whose switching device opened the way for the cellular phone business, died Oct. 25 at his home in Maplewood, N.J."
^Logic, Jack. "Kinney Wants To Add Trophy To Lafayette Baseball History", The Morning Call, September 19, 1999. Accessed November 12, 2018. "Kinney, who hails from Maplewood, Essex County, N.J., was influenced by his father, Joe Jr., an avid baseball fan who followed the exploits of the old Newark, N.J., Bears in the International League."
^Atmonavage, Joe. "N.J. man, associate of Kushner, Giuliani, arrested by feds on cyberstalking charges", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, October 23, 2020. Accessed February 4, 2023. "Ken Kurson, 52, of Maplewood, surrendered to authorities in Brooklyn and has been charged with cyberstalking for allegedly engaging 'in a pattern of stalking and harassment' of three people between November 2015 and December 2015 and using multiple aliases to do so, according to the criminal complaint."
^Rentner, Simon. "Cellist, Banjoist, and Singer-Songwriter Leyla McCalla Revisits Her Own Root System, on The Checkout", WBGO, December 4, 2017. Accessed January 15, 2020. "Leyla McCalla has traveled a winding path as a musician, from the European classical canon to the folkways of her Caribbean heritage. Born into a Haitian-American family in Queens, she was raised in Maplewood, and brought up in the New Jersey public school system."
^Daniels, Lee A. "W. G. McLoughlin, Professor of History At Brown, Dies at 70", The New York Times, January 6, 1993. Accessed September 23, 2013. "He was born in Maplewood, N.J., served as an Army officer in Europe in World War II, graduated from Princeton University in 1947 and received a doctorate from Harvard University in 1953."
^Kuperinsky, Amy. "'X Factor': Beatrice Miller, from Maplewood to 'giant mountain' in Malibu", The Star-Ledger, October 17, 2012. Accessed November 1, 2012. "Beatrice Miller has made it to the top 24 contestants on The X Factor, the talent competition judged by the likes of Simon Cowell, Britney Spears, L.A. Reid and Demi Lovato. Tonight, the 13-year-old from Maplewood finds out if she advances to the top 16."
^McGlone, Peggy. "Editor's memoir laments out-of-touch fashion industry", Star Tribune, October 8, 1995. Accessed December 30, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "When she was in fifth grade, she moved with her parents to suburban Maplewood, N.J. ('That kind of told us things were getting better economically') and eventually she attended and graduated from Columbia High School there."
^Leonard, Vince. "A 'Little Lucy'... Kind Of", The Pittsburgh Press, November 29, 1964. Accessed April 2, 2021. "Candy lives with her parents in North Hollywood. Born in Maplewood, N. J., Aug. 26, 1947, Candy started modeling in New York when she was 5. At 7, she was already doing television commercials."
^Cardwell, Diane. "LEDs Emerge as a Popular 'Green' Lighting", The New York Times, January 21, 2013. Accessed January 21, 2013. "'One day I randomly walked into a Home Depot and thought, LED — when did that happen?' said Clayton Morris, 36, a host of Fox & Friends Weekend, who was buying the bulbs in Vauxhall as part of his project to slowly replace the incandescents in his Maplewood home."
^Carter, Barry. "N.J. Muslim fencer at the tipping point of Olympic history", The Star-Ledger, February 12, 2016. Accessed August 8, 2016. "Ibtihaj Muhammad of Maplewood qualified for the Olympics and is considered to be the first American Muslim woman to compete in the games wearing a hijab, the scarf that covers her head."
^McCutcheon, Lauren. "Kevin O'Connor reveals how to get your home on This Old House, The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 16, 2018. Accessed March 26, 2018. "When This Old House host Kevin O’Connor takes the main stage at the Philadelphia Home Show this weekend, he’ll represent the O.G. of home-renovation shows. The Maplewood, N.J., native has hosted the contractor- and tradesperson-driven PBS program for 15 years, following hosts Steve Thomas (1989-2003) and Bob Vila (1979-89)."
^Primack, Dan, "Ellen Pao has landed ... at Reddit",Fortune, April 11, 2013. Accessed July 20, 2015. "In the post, Pao offered the following statement to Reddit users: 'I grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey, raised by enginerds on Star Wars, computers and books.'"
^Quinn, Sean. "CHS grad loses gender inequity complaint"Archived 2015-07-06 at the Wayback Machine, Essex News Daily, April 12, 2015. Accessed July 20, 2015. "After leaving her hometown of Maplewood, Pao garnered degrees from Princeton University, Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School."
^"Voices from the Gaps:: Kym Ragusa", University of Minnesota. Accessed December 27, 2017. "Her father was still not ready to acknowledge that he had a child, but eventually the secret was revealed to her grandparents when she came to live with them in Maplewood, New Jersey."
^Staff. "Former Blackbird Herb Scherer Passes Away"Archived March 17, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds, July 3, 2012. Accessed July 29, 2012. "Herb was born on December 21, 1928, at home in Maplewood, New Jersey. He attended Bloomfield Technical High School and Long Island University where he graduated in 1950 with a BS degree in physical education. A college basketball star, Herb was on the starting five of the nationally ranked LIU Blackbirds. Herb was drafted by the New York Knicks in 1950 where he played from 1951–1952. He married Mary Buist on June 9, 1951 and they settled in Parsippany, New Jersey for the next thirty years in the home he built for them."
^Shyrock, Bob. "South Jersey native nominated for Oscar for 'Life of Pi'", South Jersey Times, January 12, 2013. Accessed October 24, 2015. "Former Wenonah resident Tim Squyres, who has edited 11 of director Ang Lee's 12 films, has been nominated for an Oscar for his work on Lee's acclaimed fantasy adventure Life of Pi.... Nominated for an Oscar previously for editing Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Squyres is a graduate of Gateway Regional High School and Cornell University whose parents reside in Wenonah. The father of two, Squyres now lives in Maplewood in Essex County."
^Waggoner, Walter H. "Agnes Turnbull, Novelist, 93, Dies", The New York Times, February 2, 1982. Accessed July 29, 2012. "Agnes Sligh Turnbull, a popular and prolific novelist and shortstory writer, died Sunday at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J. She was 93 years old and had lived in Maplewood, N.J., for 60 years."
^Martin, Douglas. "George W. Webber, Social Activist Minister, Dies at 90", The New York Times, July 12, 2010. Accessed November 12, 2018. "The Rev. George W. Webber, a Protestant minister and educator whose quest to make religion more socially relevant led him to remake a major seminary, start storefront churches in East Harlem and begin a program to educate prison inmates as pastors, died Saturday at his home in Maplewood, N.J."
^Jackson, Chanta L. "Jersey girl in spotlight as Cheetah Girls return", The Star-Ledger, August 12, 2008. Accessed February 7, 2011. "But you might not know that Aqua, the brainy Cheetah Girl, is played by Kiely Williams, a Jersey girl who grew up in Newark and Maplewood and whose family lives in Hunterdon County."