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Settled in 1720 as the West Fields of Elizabethtown, the village grew along Old York Road and later as a stop on the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Major skirmishes took place in the area during the American Revolution. It became a township in 1794 and a town in 1903.
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Westfield, New Jersey · United States