Editing Essex County, New Jersey (section)

==History==
[[File:Millburn NJ View.JPG|thumb|upright=1.1|[[Millburn, New Jersey|Millburn]] in Essex County]]

===Etymology===
The county is named after [[Essex]], a county in the [[East of England]].<ref>[[Joseph Nathan Kane|Kane, Joseph Nathan]]; and Aiken, Charles Curry. [https://books.google.com/books?id=yC9vFvCuW84C&pg=PA95 ''The American Counties: Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, and Population Data, 1950–2000''], p. 95. [[Scarecrow Press]], 2005. {{ISBN|0810850362}}. Accessed January 21, 2013.</ref>

===History===
Essex was originally formed as one of four administrative districts within [[Province of East Jersey]] in 1675, together with [[Bergen County, New Jersey|Bergen]], [[Middlesex County, New Jersey|Middlesex]] and [[Monmouth County, New Jersey|Monmouth]] districts. Essex County was formed within East Jersey on March 7, 1683.<ref name="Story">Snyder, John P. [https://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/bulletin67.pdf ''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606–1968''], Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 125. Accessed June 6, 2012.</ref> The county was named after the English county of [[Essex, England|Essex]]. When the provinces of East Jersey and West Jersey were combined in 1702, the county boundaries were retained. Portions of Essex were taken in 1741 and transferred to [[Somerset County, New Jersey|Somerset County]]. In 1837, [[Passaic County, New Jersey|Passaic County]] was formed from portions of Essex and [[Bergen County, New Jersey|Bergen]] counties. In 1857, [[Union County, New Jersey|Union County]] was created from parts of Essex County.<ref name="Story" />

===Secession===
The municipalities of western Essex County have discussed secession from the county, to create a new county or be annexed to [[Morris County, New Jersey|Morris County]], spurred mainly by a belief that tax policy benefits the poorer, urban, eastern portions of the county at the expense of the wealthier, more suburban municipalities in the west of the county. From 2001 to 2003, [[Millburn, New Jersey|Millburn]], [[Montclair, New Jersey|Montclair]] and [[Roseland, New Jersey|Roseland]] all held nonbinding ballot referendums on the issue. Then-[[Montclair, New Jersey|Montclair]] mayor Robert J. Russo gave a statement in 2003 about secession, "I've watched Essex County burden our people, with very little to show for it. We're fiscally conservative here and socially progressive &ndash; and we're finally rebelling."<ref>Pearce, Jeremy. [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/nyregion/in-essex-county-secession-gathers-momentum.html "In Essex County, Secession Gathers Momentum"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', September 7, 2003. Accessed September 23, 2016. "Montclair and Roseland both have decided to test the winds for revolution. In November, each community plans to put the secession issue before the public, in the form of a nonbinding referendum. Two years ago, Millburn posed a similar question and was bowled over at the response: 88 percent of voters agreed that the town should take steps toward leaving Essex for neighboring Morris County."</ref>

[[File:Essex Troop 1315 PVW WOrange jeh.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Essex Troop, New Jersey National Guard]]
[[File:Essex Co Hall of Records jeh.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Essex County Hall of Records]]
[[File:Edison labs Main St Lakeside Av jeh.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Thomas Edison Laboratory]]