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The Rahway River Parkway is a greenway of parkland along the banks the main stem Rahway River and its tributaries in Union County, New Jersey, United States. Created in the 1920s, it was one of the inaugural projects of the newly created Union County Parks Commission.
In 1971, the Cranford Historical Society marked the farm and village home of Josiah Crane, Sr. (1791–1873) in what is now Josiah Crane Park on the Rahway River at the corner of Springfield and North Union Avenue. [23] Crane, Sr. built what is now the Crane-Phillips House as a honeymoon cottage for his son, Josiah Crane, Jr.
The Rahway River is a river in Essex, Middlesex, and Union Counties, New Jersey, United States, The Rahway, along with the Elizabeth River, Piles Creek, Passaic River, Morses Creek, and the Fresh Kills River (in Staten Island), has its river mouth at the Arthur Kill.
The building was demolished in October 2001 and a new library was constructed and opened on March 22, 2004, behind the city's municipal building along a less flood-prone area of the Rahway River. [78] The site of the former Rahway Public Library now contains tennis courts and a small playground. The new library opened in 2004.
[3] [4] The rail trail would run eastbound from Overlook Medical Center on the edge of downtown Summit and head south along the old railbed through Springfield, over the Rahway River via an abandoned trestle, through Union, then Kenilworth and ending at the southwest edge of Roselle Park at the Cranford border. A northern portion of the 7.3 ...
The Cranford section of the parkway follows the banks of the meandering Rahway River as it flows south through Lenape Park, Nomahegan Park, [8] Hampton Park, MacConnell Park, Girl Scout Park, the Cranford Canoe Club, Hanson Park, [9] Sperry Park, Josiah Crane Park, Droescher's Mill Park (also known as Squire Williams Park), [10] and Mohawk Park ...
The Rahway River Parkway, a greenway of parkland around the Rahway River, snakes through the east side of Clark and includes Bloodgoods Pond, Jackson Pond, and the northernmost portion of Rahway River Park. [125] Esposito Park, named a destination park worth traveling for by New Jersey Family magazine, is located near St. Mary's Cemetery. [126]
The river is tidal for approximately five mies upstream. [2] Many of the crossings of the river were built in the late 19th and early 20th century [3] and are part of the Rahway River Parkway, a greenway along the banks of the river.