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SouthOrangeNanny
Citizen
Username: Sonanny
Post Number: 14
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 3:55 pm: | 
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what does the stone at the top of forest and wyoming mean? i think it said woodside...(it's on the island) |
Soda
Supporter
Username: Soda
Post Number: 2776
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 4:16 pm: |
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I'd guess that it was the name of the development when the houses between North Wyoming and Ridgewood were originally built during the 1920's. Anybody else have an authoritative answer?
-s.
BTW: Nice neighborhood, huh? |
Josh M.
Citizen
Username: Jmaxlaw
Post Number: 231
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 4:29 pm: |
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I've always assumed the same thing. Woodside as an official spot is a neighborhood in North Newark near the Forest Hill section. It was at one time a really upper-crust place, before the larger riverfront properties were sold to developers or engulfed by Route 21. |
MHD
Citizen
Username: Mayhewdrive
Post Number: 2018
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 4:31 pm: |
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Hey Soda,
What was that you said the other day about not always seeing the same hands... ?
BTW: The neighborhood is nice, although some of the residents are questionable. 
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Paco
Citizen
Username: Paco
Post Number: 1
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 11:01 am: |
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As a resident of Forest Road, I often wondered about that myself. So, a while back, I took a few moments to research the area and the origins of the marker. "Woodside" was the name of the estate owned by Harriet A. Hoskier, upon which many of the homes on Forest Road and Ravine Drive were built in the late 1920's. It also included a 1/4 mile race track near where the lower parts of Forest and Ravine meet. Although this section of town is generally referred to as the Mountain Section, maps of the area from 1911 show the Woodside estate along side the Redmond estate (AKA Hillside and Orange Lawn). South Orange is full of little known historical facts like that.
In the days prior to Cablevision, big contracts, and steroids, Cameron Field hosted the Negro Leagues and greats like Josh Gibson. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig played there in 1929 while barnstorming through New Jersey. Built in 1913, Cameron Field is one of the oldest baseball fields in NJ that is still in use today.
Perhaps the Gaslight could add a regular column highlighting one of these little known facts in each issue.
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Soda
Supporter
Username: Soda
Post Number: 2786
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 11:10 am: |
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Welcome to the virtual neighborhood, Paco!
-s. |
Eric DeVaris
Citizen
Username: Eric_devaris
Post Number: 175
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2005 - 12:48 pm: |
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Paco,
Thank you for sharing with us your knowledge with this bit of interesting S.O. history. For a first post you made a grand' entry to MOL.
Welcome.
Eric DeVaris |
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