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$95,489
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Union, NJ - History
We would like to provide the residents of Union a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Union Home page. The Union Home page provides as much information as possible on Union. Knowing Union’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Union’s Home page, you will also find Union’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Union has a population of 58735. 47.1% of Union’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.9 are female. 49.3% of Union is married and 73.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $338,421, and the average rent is $1,681. Household median income in Union is $95,489, and the individual median income is $42,020. Union’s Ethnic is the following: White(41.6%), Black(33.4%), Hispanic(18.2%), Asian(10.2%), Other(10%), Multiple(4.7%).
Settled in 1667, Union was the third English speaking settlement in New Jersey after Elizabeth and Newark, with the area that is now Union then called Connecticut Farms.Union Township was the site of the Battle of Connecticut Farms. On June 6, 1780, British troops, led by Hessian General Wilhelm von Knyphausen, boarded boats on Staten Island bound for Elizabeth, New Jersey.
At midnight, 5,000 troops started to land. They expected the Continental Army to give little resistance, believing that they were tired of the war and were poorly fed and paid. They also expected the citizens of New Jersey to welcome them. They were wrong on both counts and were unable to make their way to and through the Hobart Gap.Union Township was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on November 23, 1808, from portions of Elizabeth Township, while the area was still part of Essex County.
It became part of the newly formed Union County on March 19, 1857. Portions of the township have been taken to form Linden Township (March 4, 1861), Roselle Park, (March 22, 1901), Kenilworth (May 13, 1907) and Hillside (April 3, 1913). In 1946, a group of residents pushed for the township's name to be changed to "Connecticut Farms", citing the potential benefits to area residents and businesses from the broad awareness of the historical significance of the name.The Self-Master Colony was a private experiment in housing the homeless; built on the Hoyt family mansion in Union Township in 1908.
The colony was founded by Andress Small Floyd and his wife Lillian, lasting until 1938.
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