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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.
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.
Built on the navigable Rahway River, it was an industrial and artisanal craft city for much of its history. The city has increasingly reinvented itself in recent years as a diverse regional hub for the arts [19] [20] and biological sciences, with a new global headquarters for Merck & Co.
South Mountain Reservation, covering between 2,047 [1] and 2,112 [2] acres (between 8.28 and 8.54 km 2), depending on the source, is a nature reserve on the Rahway River that is part of the Essex County Park System in northeastern New Jersey. It is located in central Essex County, New Jersey within portions of Maplewood, Millburn, and West Orange.
Lenape Park is a 450-acre (180 ha) [1] [2] wildlife reserve and park that is part of the Rahway River Parkway in Union County, New Jersey, United States. The park is located in four towns: Westfield, Springfield, Kenilworth, and Cranford. It is linked by a crosswalk to Nomahegan Park.
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 ...
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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.