New Jersey
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Other
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Yes, Written Evidence
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 1853
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
- Zoning
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Unknown
Comments
Part of West Orange in Essex County, all-white. Thomas Edison lived there for more than 40 years. Invented by Llewellyn Haskell in 1853, “exclusively residential.” No commerce, no fences, rules re architecture. “Public access was restricted by a peripheral fence and a gatehouse.” The homeowners’ association was “also pioneered at Llewellyn Park.” So it may have been our first gated community. See Witold Rybczynski, City Life (NY: Harper Collins, 1995), 180-81.