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Map of Woodbridge Township in Middlesex County.
Inset: Location of Middlesex County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
Enumeration Bureau map of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey State New Jersey Woodbridge Township is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2010 United States Census, the township had a total populace of 99,585, reflecting an increase of 2,382 (+2.5%) from the 97,203 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 4,117 (+4.4%) from the 93,086 counted in the 1990 Census. Woodbridge was the sixth-most-populous municipality in New Jersey in 2010, the same ranking it held a decade earlier. According to Joshua Coffin, the early pioneer included "Captain John Pike, the ancestor of General Zebulon Montgomery Pike, who was killed at the battle of Queenstown in 1813; Thomas Bloomfield, the ancestor of Joseph Bloomfield, some years governor of New Jersey, for whom the township of Bloomfield, New Jersey is named; John Bishop, senior and junior; Jonathan Haynes; Henry Jaques; George March; Stephen Kent; Abraham Toppan, junior; Elisha Ilsley; Hugh March; John Bloomfield; Samuel Moore; Nathaniel Webster; John Ilsley; and others." Woodbridge was the site of the first gristmill in New Jersey. The foundry was assembled by Jonathan Singletary Dunham (married to Mary Bloomfield, relative of Joseph Bloomfield). The Township of Woodbridge is the earliest initial township in New Jersey and was granted a royal charter on June 1, 1669, by King Charles II of England. It was reincorporated on October 31, 1693.
Woodbridge Township was incorporated by the Township Act of 1798 of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798, as part of the initial group of 104 townships incorporated in the state under the Township Act.
Portions of the township were taken to form Rahway (April 19, 1858), Raritan Township (March 17, 1870, now Edison Township) and Roosevelt (April 11, 1906, now Carteret). The township is titled after Reverend John W.
The township borders Carteret, Edison, Perth Amboy and Sayreville in Middlesex County, Clark, Linden and Rahway in Union County, and the Borough of Staten Island in New York City. Several of these communities have their own ZIP codes, and many are listed by the United States Enumeration Bureau as census-designated places (CDPs), but they are all unincorporated communities and neighborhoods inside the Township that, together, make up Woodbridge Township.
Avenel (with 2010 Enumeration population of 17,011), Colonia (17,795), Fords (15,187), Iselin (18,695), Port Reading (3,728), Sewaren (2,756), Woodbridge Proper (19,265) are census-designated places and unincorporated communities positioned inside Woodbridge Township. As of the 2000 Census, 9.19% of Woodbridge Township's inhabitants identified themselves as being of Indian American ancestry, which was the tenth-highest of any municipality in the United States and the fifth highest in New Jersey behind Edison (17.75%), Plainsboro Township (16.97%), Piscataway Township (12.49%) and South Brunswick Township (10.48%) of all places with 1,000 or more inhabitants identifying their ancestry. Woodbridge Center, with a gross leasable region of 1,633,000 square feet (151,700 m2), is the third-biggest mall in New Jersey, behind Westfield Garden State Plaza and Freehold Raceway Mall. Woodbridge is governed inside the Faulkner Act, formally known as the Optional Municipal Charter law, under the Faulkner Act (Mayor-Council) fitness of municipal government, with a directly propel mayor and a nine-member Township Council, all propel to staggered four-year terms of office on a partisan basis as part of the November general election.
The at-large and mayoral seats come up together for vote followed two years later by the five ward seats. The Township Council is the legislative body of Woodbridge Township.
As of 2016, the Mayor of Woodbridge Township is Democrat John Mc - Cormac, whose term of office ends December 31, 2019. Mc - Cormac was first propel on November 7, 2006 and sworn in on November 14, 2006. Mc - Cormac replaced Frank G.
Woodbridge Township is positioned in the 6th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 19th state legislative district. Prior to the 2010 Census, Woodbridge Township had been split between the 7th Congressional District and the 13th Congressional District, a change made by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission that took effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections. New Jersey's Sixth Congressional District is represented by Frank Pallone (D, Long Branch). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).
In the 2012 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 62.2% of the vote (22,386 cast), ahead of Republican Mitt Romney with 36.7% (13,200 votes), and other candidates with 1.1% (386 votes), among the 36,301 ballots cast by the township's 55,262 registered voters (329 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 65.7%. In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 55.9% of the vote (21,590 cast), ahead of Republican John Mc - Cain with 42.0% (16,251 votes) and other candidates with 1.2% (472 votes), among the 38,657 ballots cast by the township's 55,075 registered voters, for a turnout of 70.2%. In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat John Kerry received 53.5% of the vote (19,662 ballots cast), outpolling Republican George W.
The Woodbridge Township School District serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.
All schools in the precinct are accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools.
As of the 2011-12 school year, the district's 24 schools had an enrollment of 13,109 students and 1,029.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 12.74:1. Schools in the precinct (with 2011-12 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are 16 K-5 elementary schools: Mawbey Street School #1 (320), Avenel Street School #4&5 (602), Port Reading School #9 (396), Ross Street School #11 (421), Ford Avenue School #14 (214), Indiana Avenue School #18 (493), Menlo Park Terrace #19 (327), Claremont Avenue School #20 (346), Oak Ridge Heights School #21 (265), Lynn Crest School #22 (374), Woodbine Avenue School #23 (461), Kennedy Park School #24 (369), Lafayette Estates School #25 (534), Robert Mascenik School #26 (290), Pennsylvania Avenue School #27 (224) and Matthew Jago School #28 (433); Five middle schools (grades 6-8): Avenel Middle School (602), Colonia Middle School (621), Fords Middle School (699), Iselin Middle School (625) and Woodbridge Middle School (453); High schools for grades 9-12 in the precinct are Colonia High School (1,389), John F.
As of May 2010, the township had a total of 303.32 miles (488.15 km) of roadways, of which 244.16 miles (392.94 km) were maintained by the municipality, 28.79 miles (46.33 km) by Middlesex County, 17.69 miles (28.47 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and 12.68 miles (20.41 km) by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. The Parkway joins Sayreville in the south to Clark in the north. In addition, the New Jersey Turnpike (Interstate 95) passes through Woodbridge Township for about 5 1 4 miles (8.4 km), and is accessible at Exit 11 (which features a 24-lane toll gate). The Turnpike's Grover Cleveland service region is positioned between Interchanges 11 and 12 northbound at milepost 92.9 and the Thomas Edison service region is positioned between Interchanges 11 and 12 southbound at milepost 92.9. There are three train stations in the township: Metropark, Avenel (which has limited service) and Woodbridge. Service is provided at Metropark by NJ Transit's Northeast Corridor Line and at Avenel and Woodbridge on the North Jersey Coast Line The Metropark station also offers Amtrak Northeast Corridor services to Newark (Penn Station), New York (Penn Station), Philadelphia, Washington, D.C.
The Jonathan Singletary Dunham House was assembled near the locale of the earliest grist foundry in New Jersey by Jonathan Singletary Dunham who was a Member of the New Jersey Provincial Congress, and is President Barack Obama's eighth great-grandfather. East Jersey State Prison is a male prison facility in Woodbridge Township, on the border of Rahway.
Bitting Brewing Co., established in 1997, was the first brewery to operate in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, since the repeal of prohibition in 1933.
See also: Category:People from Woodbridge Township, New Jersey.
Joseph Bloomfield (1753-1823), 4th Governor of New Jersey was born in Woodbridge Township. Craig Coughlin (born 1958), politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2010, where he represents the 19th Legislative District. (1927-2003), member of the New Jersey General Assembly and the New Jersey Senate. Arline Friscia, member of the New Jersey General Assembly who also served on the Woodbridge Township Council. John Mc - Cormac, former New Jersey Treasurer and Mayor of Woodbridge Township. a b c d e f 2010 Enumeration Gazetteer Files: New Jersey County Subdivisions, United States Enumeration Bureau.
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"With about 220 stores and 1.5 million square feet of space, Woodbridge Center is the third-largest shopping mall in New Jersey, behind only Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus and Freehold Raceway Mall." Mc - Cormac now heads Woodbridge, Home News Tribune, November 14, 2006.
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Mawbey Street School #1, Woodbridge Township School District.
Avenel Street School #4&5, Woodbridge Township School District.
Port Reading School #9, Woodbridge Township School District.
Ross Street School #11, Woodbridge Township School District.
Ford Avenue School #14, Woodbridge Township School District.
Indiana Avenue School #18, Woodbridge Township School District.
Menlo Park Terrace #19, Woodbridge Township School District.
Claremont Avenue School #20, Woodbridge Township School District.
Oak Ridge Heights School #21, Woodbridge Township School District.
Lynn Crest School #22, Woodbridge Township School District.
Woodbine Avenue School #23, Woodbridge Township School District.
Kennedy Park School #24, Woodbridge Township School District.
Lafayette Estates School #25, Woodbridge Township School District.
Robert Mascenik School #26, Woodbridge Township School District.
Pennsylvania Avenue School #27, Woodbridge Township School District.
Matthew Jago School #28, Woodbridge Township School District.
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"Democrat Craig Coughlin, of Fords, was first propel to the New Jersey General Assembly on November 3, 2009." "Born in 1865, Dally interval up in Woodbridge, New Jersey, in a family of glassblowers working by the Edison Lamp Works in close-by Harrison." Historic Walking Tour of Woodbridge, Township of Woodbridge.
Anyway, we moved to New Jersey in the mid-'50s, and my parents still live in the same home in Woodbridge.
"Hometown: Woodbridge, N.J....Johnson earned second-team all-state recognition and was titled all-county and all-area as a senior at Woodbridge High School in Woodbridge, N.J., after rushing for 1,235 yards.
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"Our beloved friend, Joseph Moore, was born at Woodbridge in New Jersey, in the year 1732, of parents not professing with us" "Woodbridge Council Names Former Assemblyman Ernie Oros as 2009 Leader", Courier News (New Jersey), May 11, 2009.
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From Colonia, in the Woodbridge Township of New Jersey, he's now trying to make up for lost time this summer in New Jersey, as he learns part-time and stays in shape." "Jersey City Mayor Warns of Possible Bankruptcy", The New York Times, November 10, 1992.
According to New Jersey license knowledge obtained from police sources, the plate is registered to Swann in Iselin, which is in Woodbridge Township." Scannell's New Jersey First Citizens: Biographies and Portraits of the Notable Living Men and Women of New Jersey with Informing Glimpses Into the State's History and Affairs, Volume 1, p.
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