Excerpt from The Oranges and Their Points of Interest In 1681 the settlers who constituted the Mountain Society, had so increased in number that survey ors were appointed to lay out highways as far as the mountain. The surveyors followed the trails made by the early settlers in going to and fro between Newark and the mountain, and one of the first roads laid out by them, is described as Ye road leading from ye towne to ye foote of ye mountain, or Wheeler's as ye pathe now runs, as straight as ye ground will allow. The road thus definitely described now forms Orange street, Newark, Main street, in East Orange and Orange, and Northfield avenue, West Orange, It is one of the most attractive and picturesque drives in Essex county. The Wheeler referred to here is Nathaniel Wheeler, and his house stood very near where the entrance of Hutton Park now is. It is impossible within the scope of a work of this kind, which deals chiefly with the Oranges of the present day, to_give any thing like a history of the early years of this rapidly growing section, and, there fore, only a very brief mention of some of the more important points will be made. In 1806 the popula tion of the town of Newark had so increased, and the interests of the residents of Orange, which was separated from Newark by a large tract of unsettled country, had become so diverse from those of the former place, that it was deemed best to form a separate municipality; accordingly, the Legislature passed an act to incorporate a portion of the township of Newark into a separate township, to be called the Township of Orange. One of the metes and boundaries mentioned in the act is a spring called the boiling spring. This spring is still in existence, and forms a portion of the source of the water supply of East Orange. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.