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Author Chambers, John Whiteclay

Title Cranbury : a New Jersey Town from the Colonial Era to the Present
Published Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (301 pages)
Contents Preface; Chapter 1: Colonial Cranbury; Chapter 2: The Making of a Classic Nineteenth-Century Village; Chapter 3: A New Township and an Expanding Market; Chapter 4: Remembering the Turn of the Century; Chapter 5: Depression, War, and Recovery; Chapter 6: Meeting New Challenges; Chapter 7: Saving a Historic Village, Preserving Its Farmland; Chapter 8: Confronting the Twenty-First Century; Chapter 9: Cranbury, "One of America's Most Beautiful Small Towns"; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Notes; Sources and Suggested Reading; Index; About the Author
Summary One of the oldest towns in New Jersey, Cranbury has a long and noteworthy history that is in part distinctive and in part broadly representative of larger themes in the development of the state and the nation. In this beautifully illustrated book sponsored by Cranbury Landmarks, Inc., historian John Whiteclay Chambers II links the narrative of this remarkable town to contemporary debates about suburbanization and urban planning
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Subject HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
SUBJECT Cranbury (N.J. : Township) -- History
Subject New Jersey -- Cranbury (Township)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813553580
081355358X