Editing Nutley, New Jersey (section)

==History==
[[Image:Nutley RR station closed jeh.jpg|thumb|Former railroad station at Franklin Avenue<ref>Demmer, John. [http://www.northjersey.com/community/213260901_Nutley_opinion__Trains_come_to_Nutley.html?page=all "Nutley opinion: Trains come to Nutley"], ''Nutley Sun'', June 27, 2013. Accessed November 1, 2013. "The West Nutley, or Franklin Station, was the major focal point for one of Nutley's earliest and most popular real estate developers, William Lambert."</ref>]]
[[File:The Amateur Circus at Nutley by Peter Newall 1894.jpg|thumb|[[Annie Oakley]] performing at an amateur circus at Nutley in 1894, to raise funds for the Red Cross]]

Nutley grew slowly as [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]] developed. The first European settler in the area, recorded in the minutes of a Newark town meeting in 1693, was a Dutch planter named Bastian Van Giesen. His son had a home constructed after inheriting the property in 1751 and is now known as [[Vreeland Homestead]]. It still stands today on Chestnut Street and was the location of the Nutley Women's Club from 1912 until 2012 when it was sold to the township.<ref>{{Cite web |title=From Tories to the Womens Club, Vreeland Homestead, Nutley, NJ |url=https://www.nutleyhistoricalsociety.org/VreelandHomestead_Nutley.html |access-date=2024-11-18 |website=www.nutleyhistoricalsociety.org}}</ref> The [[Van Riper House]] is another building from the era.<ref name="NutleyHistory">{{cite web|title=Nutley, New Jersey - History of Nutley|url=https://www.nutleynj.org/history-of-nutley|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106135928/https://www.nutleynj.org/history-of-nutley|archive-date=November 6, 2019|access-date=2021-09-12|website=Town of Nutley, NJ}}</ref> During the [[American Revolutionary War|revolutionary war]], the  [[Continental Army]], under the command of General [[George Washington]], retreated from [[New York (state)|New York]] through Essex County and what is now Nutley.<ref>Frazza, Al. https://patch.com/new-jersey/belleville/remembering-george-washington-s-retreat-through-essex-county "Remembering George Washington's Retreat Through Essex County
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The first [[brownstone]] quarry in Nutley is believed to have been in operation by the early 18th century and was the town's first major industry.<ref name=NutleyHistory/> Jobs at the brownstone quarry in the Avondale section of Nutley provided work for many Italian and Irish immigrants. Mills situated along the Third River in the area now known as Memorial Park I became Nutley's second major industry.<ref name=NutleyHistory/>

John and Thomas Speer, Joseph Kingsland, and Henry Duncan all operated mills in the town during the 1800s. Current streets in Nutley are named after these mill owners. Henry Duncan built several mills throughout the town and established the village of Franklinville consisting of 30 homes and a few small businesses which later became the center of Nutley.<ref name=NutleyHistory/> One of Duncan's buildings has been modified and now serves as the town hall. [[Kingsland Manor]] is a national historic place.

During the late 1880s, painter [[Frank Fowler (artist)|Frank Fowler]] founded an artists' colony on The Enclosure, a dead-end street that is near the Third River, a stream that runs through the town's parks. Later artist residents of the street included [[Frederick Dana Marsh]], [[Reginald Marsh (artist)|Reginald Marsh]] and muralist [[Michael Lenson]].<ref>Bailinson, Frank. [https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/21/archives/paving-a-major-issue-in-nutley-muralists-home-muralists-home.html "Paving a Major Issue in Nutley; Muralist's Home"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 21, 1973. Accessed October 28, 2013.</ref><ref name=ETTC>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110719034627/http://www.ettc.net/njarts/details.cfm?ID=1084 Frank Fowler (1852–1910 )], [[Stockton University]] Art and Architecture of New Jersey, backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of July 19, 2011. Accessed February 3, 2017.</ref>

Nutley's town historian, John Demmer, is the author of the book in the "Images of America" series titled ''Nutley''; Demmer is also part of The Nutley Historical Society, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to serve the educational, cultural and historical needs of the community. The Nutley Historical Society manages the operation of The Nutley Historical Museum, housed in a former town schoolhouse at 65 Church Street.<ref>[http://www.nutleyhistoricalsociety.org/About--Nutley-Historical-Society.html History], Nutley Historical Society. Accessed November 6, 2019.</ref>

Several other historical works on Nutley have been written by local historians, notably the late Ann Troy's ''Nutley: Yesterday – Today''; "''Nutley''" by Marilyn Peters and Richard O'Connor in the "Then and Now" series; and books about the [[Nutley Velodrome]]. The [[board track racing]] facility was used in the 1930s for racing [[midget car racing|midget cars]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Hinnershitz, Tommy - Historic - 2003 Inductees |url=https://www.mshf.com/hall-of-fame/inductees/tommy-hinnershitz.html |publisher=[[Motorsports Hall of Fame of America|Motorsports Hall of Fame]] |access-date=September 5, 2020}}</ref> Local resident [[Chris Economaki]] wrote extensively about the Nutley Velodrome in his autobiographical racing history ''Let Them All Go!'' as the Velodrome was the first racetrack he had visited as a child.