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Verona


07044 (Verona Weather Forecast, NJ)

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Caldwell, Cedar Grove, Essex Fells, Montclair, North Caldwell and
West Orange

 

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Verona and several neighboring towns were all originally one town known as the Horseneck Tract. In 1702, a group of settlers left Newark and purchased a large tract of land northwest of their home city for the equivalent of a few hundred dollars from the Lenni Lenape Native Americans. This piece of land extended west and north to the Passaic River, south to the town center of what would become Livingston, and east to the First Watchung Mountain, and was called Horseneck by the natives because it resembled the neck and head of a horse. What was then known as Horseneck contained most of the present day northern Essex County towns: Verona, along with Caldwell, West Caldwell, Cedar Grove, Essex Fells, Fairfield, North Caldwell, and Roseland are all located entirely in Horseneck, and parts of what are today Livingston, Montclair, and West Orange also were contained in the Horseneck Tract.

After the Revolutionary War, the area of Horseneck was incorporated as "Caldwell Township" in honor of local war hero James Cadwell, a pastor who used pages from his church's bibles as wadding to ignite the ammo in soldiers' cannons and helped to drive the British out of Horseneck.

On February 17, 1892, the citizens of Verona voted to secede from Caldwell Township to form Verona Township. Further growth and the need for a water system and other public utilities found Verona moving ahead of the other half of the township and in 1902 the two areas decided to separate into two separate municipalities: Verona Township and Verona Borough. It took two sessions of the state legislature to approve the new borough, but on April 18, 1907, the borough of Verona was approved. Residents of the newly formed borough had sought to disassociate themselves from the Overbrook County Insane Asylum and the Newark City Home (a reform school), as well as from the settlement of Cedar Grove, which was considered a settlement of farmers. On April 9, 1908, Verona Township changed its name to Cedar Grove Township. In 1982, the borough of Verona became a township.

 

 

Government

Township of Verona
600 Bloomfield Ave
Verona, NJ 07044
973-239-3220

Departments

Construction Official 973-857-4836

Court Administator 973-857-4772

Fire - 911
(Non-Emergency) Fire Dept #1 973-857-1066, 973-236-4466

First Aid - 911
(Non-Emergency) 973-857-4760

Health Department 973-857-4800

Library - 973-857-4848

Office of Emergency Management (OEM) 973-857-4756

Police - 911
(Non-emergency) 973-239-5000

Public Works 973-857-4804

Recreation 973-857-4830

Senior Citizens 973-857-4800

Tax Collector's Office 973-239-3220

Tax Assessor 973-857-4837

Education

Board of Education

PTA

Brookdale Avenue School - Elementary Grades K - 4
14 Brookdale Court
Verona, NJ 07044
973-571-6752

F N Brown School - Elementary Grades K - 4
125 Grove Ave
Verona, NJ 07044
973-571-6753

Forest Avenue School - Elementary Grades K - 4
118 Forest Ave
Verona, NJ 07044
973-571-6754

Laning Avenue School - Elementary Grades Prek - 4
18 Lanning Road
Verona, NJ 07044
973-571-6755

H B Whitehorne Middle School - Grades 5 - 8
600 Bloomfield Ave
Verona, NJ 07044
973-571-6751

Verona High School - Grades 9 - 12
151 Fairview Ave
Verona, NJ 07044
973-571-6750

Private schools

Our Lady of the Lake Catholic School
26 Lakeside Avenue
Verona, NJ 07044
973-239-1160

The Children's Institute
1 Sunset Avenue
Verona, NJ 07044
973-508-3050

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Kip's Castle Park
22 Crestmont Road
Verona, NJ 07044
973-239-2465

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