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South Orange is a village in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the village population was 16,964. Seton Hall University is located in South Orange.
“The time and circumstances under which the name South Orange originated will probably never be known,” wrote historian William H Shaw in 1884, “and we are obliged to fall back on a tradition, that Mr Nathan Squier first used the name in an advertisement offering wood for sale” in 1795.[5]
Of 566 municipalities statewide, South Orange is one of only four villages in New Jersey; the others are Loch Arbour, Ridgefield Park and Ridgewood.
South Orange Village dates back to May 4, 1869, when it was formed within South Orange Township (Now Maplewood). On March 4, 1904, the Village of South Orange was created by an act of the New Jersey Legislature and separated from South Orange Township.[6] In November, 1977, South Orange voters passed a new Charter for South Orange and changed its name to The Township of South Orange Village. The change was intended to allow South Orange to qualify for a pool of federal aid allocated to Townships that allowed townships to receive as much as double the revenue-sharing aid per capita received by the four other types of New Jersey municipalities – borough, city, town or village.[7]
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