Maywood, New Jersey
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Maywood is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 10,080, an increase of 525 from the 2010 census count of 9,555
NYS&W diesel locomotive No. 206 on static display at the Maywood Station Museum
Route 17 northbound in Maywood
Romine-Van Voorhis House
Boroughitis
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Boroughitis was the creation in the 1890s, usually by referendum, of large numbers of small boroughs in the U.S. state of New Jersey, particularly in Bergen County. Attempts by the New Jersey Legislat
Maywood, New Jersey
…a borough on June 29, 1894, from portions of Midland Township, based on the results of a referendum held that day. The borough was formed during the "Boroughitis" phenomenon then sweeping through Bergen County, in which 26 boroughs were formed in the county in 1894 alone. The borough's name came from the name…
Bergen County (and neighboring Passaic County) in 1872
The New Jersey State House in Trenton, where the 1894 acts were passed
The Woodcliff School, Woodcliff Lake, Bergen County. The schoolhouse built for the new borough in 1895 is still part of its middle school.