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===Early center of transportation=== [[File:F. Berg hat factory.jpg|thumb|F. Berg & Co. hat factory building, built in 1907. The company left in the 1920s.]] Orange is on the [[New Jersey Route 10|Newark and Mount-Pleasant Turnpike]], the main road from Newark to [[Morristown, New Jersey|Morristown]], and ultimately to [[Easton, Pennsylvania]]. The town became a busy thoroughfare for travelers, and hotels abounded. Initially, the stagecoach was the primary method of transportation. Omnibuses of the Eclipse and the Morris & Newark Lines serviced Orange. The [[Morris and Essex Railroad]] arrived in Orange in November 1836, its first cars drawn by horses. On October 2, 1837, the first steam locomotive appeared, and the horses were, with minor exception, relegated to pasture. The "M&E" later became a part of the [[Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad]] (DL&W), which exists today as [[NJ Transit]]'s [[Morristown Line]]. Trolley cars appeared much later, with the Orange and Newark Horse Car Railroad Company running its first car up Main Street in May 1862. The Orange Crosstown Line, eventually extending from Morris Street, Orange, to Bloomfield, was started in June 1888. (The first electric trolley in the State of New Jersey operated over a section of this line.) Eventually, all the trolleys, and the buses that replaced them, became part of the sprawling Public Service Coordinated Transport System. Orange became an industrial city early in its history, with the tanning industry expanding rapidly after settlers found growths of [[tsuga|hemlock]] trees that were a source for the [[tannic acid]] they needed, leading to the growth of many factories producing shoes and boots.<ref name=History/> Orange was once the United States' hat-making capital. The industry can be traced there to 1792. By 1892, 21 firms were engaged in that trade, employing over 3,700 people in plants that produced about 4.8 million hats, which had a combined value in excess of $1 million (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|1.0|1892|fmt=c|r=1}} million in {{Inflation/year|US}}). Several brothers founded the "No-Name Hat Company" in Orange before one of them moved on to make fedoras in Philadelphia under the family name, "[[Stetson]]." By 1921, only five hat-making firms were left, many having departed for places such as [[Norwalk, Connecticut|Norwalk]] and [[Danbury, Connecticut]].<ref>[https://sites.google.com/site/carcomf/historyofthehatindustryatorange History of the Hat Industry at Orange, NJ]. Accessed November 3, 2019.</ref> By 1960, all had left. Beer was a major industry in Orange beginning in the early 1900s, when the three Winter Brothers of [[Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania, arrived in the city and built the first brewery. The Orange Brewery was constructed in 1901 at a reported cost of $350,000 (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|0.350|1901|fmt=c|r=1}} million in {{Inflation/year|US}}). The production of beer ceased with [[Prohibition in the United States|prohibition]] in 1920, and after the repeal of the [[Volstead Act]] in 1933, the brewery was sold to John F. Trommers of Philadelphia. Trommers brewed beer under that label until 1950, when the concern was again sold to Liebmann Breweries, Incorporated, which bottled [[Rheingold Beer]]. Eventually, after passing through several other owners, the plant was closed permanently in 1977. Other notable firms in Orange were the [[Monroe Calculator Company|Monroe Calculating Company]], manufacturers of the adding machines of the same name, and the Bates Manufacturing Company, producers of office accessories such as staplers and stampers. The [[United States Radium Corporation]] refined ore and extracted the [[radium]] used to make luminous paint for dials and hands of watches and other indicators. Years later, the carcinogenic effects of this material became known, and the polluted site of the factory became a liability for the city.<ref>Frame, Paul. [https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/radioluminescent/index.html Radioluminescent Paint], [[Oak Ridge Associated Universities]]. Accessed November 16, 2021.</ref>
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