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The
first thing that strikes you about the town of
Maplewood is the beautiful tree lined streets
and the gas lamps. But look a little further and
you'll be really impressed by the superb selection
of homes here too. As you'd expect for an upscale
residential area, residents have numerous malls
and shopping areas to choose from. They are all
easily reached by car or bus and parking is never
a problem in this superbly planned community.
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When
surveying the area now known as Maplewood, Robert Treat
found several trails used by Leni-Lenapi tribes of Algonquin
Native Americans, though there was only sparse pre-European
settlement. These paths form the basis for what are
the town’s main thoroughfares today.
The first European settlers arrived around 1675, primarily
English, Dutch, and French Puritans who had earlier
settled Hempstead, Long Island, and Stamford, Connecticut,
via Newark and Elizabeth. They had acquired most of
today’s Essex County from the Native Americans
and followed three trails that roughly correspond to
South Orange Avenue, Springfield Avenue, and Ridgewood
Road from Connecticut and Long Island, New York.
These three routes resulted in three separate communities
that merged into Maplewood and South Orange. 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 village, 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 backwards
community with close ties to Springfield.
As
of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 23,868 people,
8,452 households, and 6,381 families residing in the
township. The population density was 2,393.6/km²
(6,207.1/mi²). There were 8,615 housing units at
an average density of 864.0/km² (2,240.4/mi²).
The racial makeup of the township was 58.78% White,
32.63% African American, 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.
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.
In
the township the population was spread out with 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.
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
and 6.0% of those 65 and older were living below the
poverty line.
Maplewood
prides itself on being a diverse and family-friendly
community. In a number of surveys it is ranked among
the most desirable places to live in the United States.
The township has a downtown area alternatively known
as "the village" or "Maplewood Center"
with its own movie theater, several upscale and midscale
restaurants, a small supermarket, independent café,
two liquor stores, and a small bookstore. The structure
of the village is largely unchanged since the 1950s.
It was the home town of Agnes Sligh Turnbull, who wrote
a series of novels in the middle 20th century. Maplewood
was also the home of Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, the
syndicate owner and one of the ghost writers of the
Nancy Drew series. It is also the birthplace of the
wooden golf tee, invented by William Lowell at the Maplewood
Golf Club in 1921.
It has been the site for several films, including Garden
State, "Gracie", One True Thing, Stepmom,
and The Reader.
Ultimate Frisbee (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.
