Editing Cranford, New Jersey (section)

=== Township parks ===
Parks run by the township and overseen by the Cranford Recreation and Parks Department include:<ref name=Parks>[https://www.cranfordnj.org/recreation-parks/pages/parks-facilities Parks and Facilities], Township of Cranford. Accessed October 3, 2017.</ref>

* Adams Park – Adams Avenue and Lambert Street. [[Morses Creek (New Jersey)|Morses Creek]] dips into Cranford behind this park.
* Buchanan Park – Centennial Avenue and Buchanan Avenue
* [[Cranford Canoe Club]] – Springfield Avenue and Orange Avenue<ref>[http://www.cranford/ Canoe Club.com/ Home Page], Cranford Canoe Club. Accessed November 8, 2016.</ref> The Cranford Canoe Club rents canoes and kayaks for trips on the [[Rahway River]] in Cranford. The current structure was built as a private canoe club in 1908.<ref>Fridlington and Fuhro, Cranford Vol. 2 (1996) p. 52.</ref>
* Community Center – Walnut Avenue. The Cranford Community Center, adjacent to the Cranford Public Library, offers classes, sports, speaker series and other recreational activities.
* Josiah Crane Park – Springfield Avenue and North Union Avenue. In 1971, the Cranford Historical Society marked the farm and village home of Josiah Crane Sr. (1791–1873)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.westfieldnjhistory.com/greavesfiles/fam02221.html;|title=Location of Josiah Crane Park Genealogy of Josiah Crane}}</ref> in a park across from the First Presbyterian Church on the [[Rahway River]]. This park now features Cranford's 9/11 Memorial.
* Cranford West – Hope, N.J. Originally the home of the Cranford Boys Club on Silver Lake from the 1920s to the 1960s
* Girl Scout Park – Springfield Avenue and Orange Avenue. This was once the site of a canoe club, later the Neva Sykes Girl Scout House, demolished in the 1950s.
* Hampton Park – Eastman Street and Hampton Street
* Hanson Park – Springfield Avenue and Holly Street. Home of the Hanson Park Conservancy.<ref>[http://www.hansonparkconservancy.com/about.html About], Hanson Park Conservancy. Accessed November 8, 2016.</ref>
* Johnson Park – Johnson Avenue. The Johnson Avenue playground opened in July 1957.<ref>Staff. [http://www.digifind-it.com/cranford/DATA/newspapers/chronicle/1957/1957-07-03.pdf "Plan Johnson Avenue Playground; Supervised Areas Opening Monday"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201080947/http://www.digifind-it.com/cranford/DATA/newspapers/chronicle/1957/1957-07-03.pdf |date=December 1, 2016 }}, ''Citizen and Chronicle'', July 3, 1957. Accessed December 1, 2016.</ref>
* Lincoln Park – Lincoln Avenue at South Union. What is now Lincoln Park was the Cranford Golf Club in 1899, now moved to Westfield and called the [[Echo Lake Country Club]]. The Lincoln Avenue grounds were designed by [[Willie Dunn (golfer)|Willie Dunn]]. Lincoln Park was also originally a former estate said to have supplied lumber to build the [[USS Constitution|USS ''Constitution'']] ("Old Ironsides") in the 1700s.<ref>[http://cranfordhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/HistoricTreeBooklet2011.pdf ''A Guide to Union County College's Historic Tree Project''], Cranford History. Accessed November 8, 2016.</ref> The grounds, at the corner of the [[Old York Road]] and Benjamin Street, also included the largest sour gum ever recorded in the Northeastern states, known as the Cranford Pepperidge Tree or "Old Peppy". The cultivated shoots from Old Peppy's root system now form a grove of saplings offering shade to the [[Deborah Wolfe|Deborah Cannon Partridge Wolfe]] Reading Garden in the park.<ref>https://patch.com/new-jersey/cranford/reading-garden-coming-portion-lincoln-park</ref><ref>https://unionnewsdaily.com/news/reading-garden-dedicated-in-lincoln-park</ref> The park has hosted [[bocce ball]] tournaments since the mid-1960s.
* Mayor's Park – Springfield Avenue and North Union Avenue
* Memorial Park – Springfield Avenue and Central Avenue, in 2014, the Cranford Historical Society dedicated a civil war monument.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-05-16|title=Cranford Historical Society Dedicates Civil War Monument on Memorial Day|url=https://patch.com/new-jersey/cranford/ev--cranford-historical-society-dedicates-civil-war-mfebf8574fc|access-date=2021-03-28|website=Cranford, NJ Patch|language=en}}</ref>
* Roosevelt Park – Orange Avenue and Pacific Avenue
* Sherman Park – Lincoln Avenue East. Former site of Sherman School and located on the [[Old York Road]].<ref>Report of the Survey of the Schools of the Township of Cranford, New Jersey: School Year, 1924–1925</ref>

* At the corner of Elizabeth and North Union Avenues sits a memorial bench dedicated to the Cranford Dixie Giants, the town's semiprofessional baseball team organized by and composed entirely of African-American players, which played in the early 1900s.<ref>https://www.tapinto.net/towns/cranford/sections/sports/articles/the-cranford-historical-connection-cranford-s-all-black-baseball-team-the-dixie-giants</ref><ref>https://cranfordhistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Cranford%E2%80%99s-Black-Baseball-Team-%E2%80%9CThe-Dixie-Giants%E2%80%9D.pdf</ref>