Editing Dunellen, New Jersey (section)

==History==
The earliest inhabitants of the area that would become Dunellen were the [[Lenape]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]]; several Lenape sites in Dunellen were identified as part of a comprehensive survey in 1915.<ref>Heleniak, Heidi. [http://www.dunellen411.com/2015/07/25/2364/ "Local Lenni-Lenape Sites Mentioned in 1915 Survey Article"], Dunellen411, July 25, 2015. Accessed December 3, 2019.</ref><ref>Spier, Leslie. [https://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/bulletin13.pdf "Indian Remains near Plainfield, Union County, and along the Lower Delaware Valley"], Geological Survey of New Jersey. Accessed December 3, 2019.</ref> European settlers were drawn to the area as early as 1682, attracted by the productive agricultural land.<ref>Triolo, John; and Marren-Licht, Liz. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KUcvgjpU2pgC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7 ''Dunellen''], p. 7. [[Arcadia Publishing]], 2012. {{ISBN|9780738591612}}. Accessed December 3, 2019. "The Dunellen area was verdant farmland settled by early colonialists, such as David Coriell in 1682, Reune Runyon in 1736, Cornelius Boice in 1768, and Peter Marcellas and Zacharaiah Pound in 1780."</ref>

Railroad access from New York City to present-day Dunellen began in 1840.<ref name=StrategicPlan/> Dunellen grew from its start in 1867 with the construction of a railroad station, which was originally called New Market station, serving the nearby community of the same name in [[Piscataway, New Jersey|Piscataway]].<ref>Loyer, Susan. [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-central-new-jersey-home-news-profile/141122365/ "Dunellen: Tremendous effort by parents, tremendous fun for kids"], ''[[Home News Tribune]]'', June 5, 2005. Accessed February 16, 2024, via [[Newspapers.com]]. "Originally part of Piscataway, Dunellen was established in 1867 and grew up around the New Jersey Central Railroad station, which was known as New Market station."</ref> When it was originally constructed, the tracks were at grade level with North Avenue and the railroad was the Elizabethtown and Somerville Railroad, which later became part of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. The Central Railroad of New Jersey created the residential development in the area which it owned surrounding its train station.<ref name=StrategicPlan>[http://www.dunellen-nj.gov/DTH_Report_FINAL_single%20page.pdf ''Dunellen Transit Hub Strategic Plan''], Borough of Dunellen, June 2019. Accessed December 3, 2019. "The railroad from New York was extended to the area now known as Dunellen in 1840. The Borough of Dunellen, incorporated in 1887 when it separated from Piscataway, was built by the Central Railroad of New Jersey. The railroad company owned the land, built the railroad and subdivided the surrounding farmland into a residential community."</ref> The railroad brought industry to the area.

The Art Color factory built in 1925 was Dunellen's principal industry and produced as many as 10 million magazines a month. The W. F. Hall Printing Company of Chicago bought Art Color in 1931, and ran it until 1968, when it closed the plant there.<ref>[http://www.dunellenlibrary.org/Schwartz/arnold_a_schwartz.htm "Arnold A. Schwartz"] "{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080416070304/http://www.dunellenlibrary.org/Schwartz/arnold_a_schwartz.htm |date=2008-04-16 }}", Dunellen Public Library. Accessed April 1, 2008.</ref>