. The Oranges and their points of interest, embracing Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange and Orange valley. theMorristown Railroad, and Messrs. Meeker, Moses Bigelow and JohnP. Jackson were appointed a commit-tee to present the subject to the Leg-islature. The last named gentleman on this committee was the father of Mr. F. W. Jackson, the presentGeneral Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Messrs. Stephen Dodd, L. A. Sykes and WilliamB. Kinney were appointed a committee to confer with a similar committee from Morristown and furtherthe interests of the new road. On the
. The Oranges and their points of interest, embracing Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange and Orange valley. theMorristown Railroad, and Messrs. Meeker, Moses Bigelow and JohnP. Jackson were appointed a commit-tee to present the subject to the Leg-islature. The last named gentleman on this committee was the father of Mr. F. W. Jackson, the presentGeneral Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Messrs. Stephen Dodd, L. A. Sykes and WilliamB. Kinney were appointed a committee to confer with a similar committee from Morristown and furtherthe interests of the new road. On the 26th of January, 1835, the Legislature passed a bill incorporatingthe Morris and Essex Railroad Companv. The company was authorized to lay out and construct a railroad or lateral roads from one or more suitable place or places in Morristown, to inters, t oneor more suitable places in the railroad kaown as the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company, at Newark or Elizabethtown. On the completion of the road to Newarka connection was made with the New Jersey Railroad by a track laid through Broad street, New-. D., L. & W. Depot at Orange. ,, ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTEREST. ark, to the Centre street depot in that city, over which horse cars were run. Early in 1855 a branch roadwas built from the New Jersey (now the Pennsylvania) Railroad, in Hast Newark, and across the Passaicto connect the Morris and Essex with the New Jersey Railroad, and for many years passengers fromOrange and other places were carried over the Morris and Essex Railroad as far as East Newark, on theline of that company, and thence without changing cars over the New Jersey tracks to Jersey City. In1S60 the Hohoken Land and Improvement Company obtained a charter for a railroad connecting New-ark with Hoboken. This railroad was completed November 19, 1862, when the trains of the Morris andRailroad were run direct to Hoboken through the Bergen tunnel. In 186S the Morris and EssexRailroad was leased to th
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