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Hillside History

 

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Photographs and information courtesy of the Hillside Historical Society and From Lost Saybrook and Lyons Farms to Hillside
by Arnold H. McClow. Pamphlets courtesy of the Hillside National Bank, prepared by bank staff in the 1950s and 1960s.

Pamphlets

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The Doremus family in front of their farm house more than a century ago. The house stood on the site of the Town House Apartments on Doremus Place.

Hillside Avenue just west from the bend at Maple Avenue, circa 1870.

The old Hillside School, for which Hillside may have been named, stood on a little hill on Hillside Avenue near Maple Avenue.

Main entrance for the Evergreen cemetery. The acreage covered is equal to much of the remainder of Hillside south of Route 22.

An Elizabeth Daily Journal map showing the proposed new borough.

A copy of the enabling legislation for a referendum.

The Abram P. Morris home at North Broad Street and Williamson Avenue.

The "heart of Lyons Farms" in its early days.

H.G. Looker store. North Broad Street bridge traffic has traveled over the site of the store ever since 1928.

The Shulman Department store advertising in the late 1920s.

This diagram shows how the realignment of North Broad Street was planned in 1926, as it appeared in the Hillside Times.

The Union Trolley on the Public Service Transport right of way, circa 1935.

The Union Trolley approaches the Public Service bridge over Route 22 in 1935. The Miller Coal silo can be seen in the background.

A class in the old Salem school, circa early 1900s.

Shanty Shack recreation program for teens in 1942.

This zoning map of 1931 shows some of the changes a few years made, with ideas for the future.

The Bristol-Myers Company some sixty-five years ago. The firm arrived in town in 1919 and provided employment for many local residents.

Hillside's Fire Department had two companies by the 1920s. This photo was taken in front of the Maple Avenue Fire House.

Corner of Liberty and Hillside Avenues, site of the future Hillside Public Library.

A sandlot team of the 1920s, possibly representing Hillside Presbyterian Church.

 

 
Recommended Reading:   Click HERE to check availability  
Along the Upper Road : the History of Hillside by Jean-Rae Turner  
From Lost Saybrook and Lyons Farms to Hillside : a Pictorial History  by Arnold H. McClow  
Hillside / by Jean-Rae Turner and Richard T. Koles  
History of Hillside, N.J. and vicinity, including Lyons Farms, Salem, Saybrook and early history of Newark and Elizabethtown, by George Coyne Woodruff; sponsored and published by Hurden-Looker post no. 50, American legion, of Hillside, New Jersey