Woodside Township Woodside Township was a
township that existed in
Essex County,
New Jersey,
United States, from 1869 to 1871. Woodside was incorporated as a township by an Act of the
New Jersey Legislature on March 24, 1869, from portions of
Belleville Township On April 5, 1871, almost two weeks after its second anniversary, the township was dissolved, and its territory was absorbed by
Belleville and
Newark.
Cockloft Hall In the early 1800s
Washington Irving, his oldest brother
William,
James Kirke Paulding a few friends formed a group known as the "Lads of
Kilkenny", described as “a loosely knit pack of literary-minded young blades out for a good time.” When they weren't spending time at the
Park Theatre or the Shakespeare Tavern at the corner of
Nassau and
Fulton Streets in
Lower Manhattan, they gathered at an old family mansion on the
Passaic River in Woodside which
Gouverneur Kemble had inherited and which they called "Cockloft Hall". For a short time they produced
Salmagundi, a periodical.
Rail stations Woodside Station, near the intersection of Grafton Avenue & Oraton Street, was a stop on the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad
Newark Branch. There was a small railroad green, snack bar & ticket station next to the tracks. Passenger service was discontinued in 1966, although freight service, operated by
Norfolk Southern Railroad as the Newark Industrial Track, remained active for a time and served several local industries. The
North Newark station, with service provided by the Erie Railroad's
New York and Greenwood Lake Railway and later by
NJ Transit's
Boonton Line was located on Broadway. The right of way is a planned state park, the
Essex–Hudson Greenway.
Housing project The Archbishop Walsh Homes, named for
Thomas Joseph Walsh, the first
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Newark holding the position from 1937 until his death in 1952, when the project was built. It consisted of nine 8-story buildings. They were demolished beginning in 1997 replaced by "town homes" and a recreation center called the Waterfront. ==References==