Millburn, NJ Fire Photos (7)

On March 20, 1857 the 81st Legislature of the State of New Jersey approved an Act to create out of the Township of Springfield, a new township to be called and known by the name of the Township of Millburn.

By Section Two of the same Act, it was decreed that the inhabitants of said Township of Millburn were thereafter to he styled and known by the name "the inhabitants of the Township Millburn in the County of Essex", and were to he vested With, and entitled to, all rights, powers, privileges, authority and advantages as the Inhabitants of the other townships in the said County of Essex. In 1957 a parade was held in Millburn to celebrate its centennial. What follows here are some photographs taken by my grandmother, Helen Partington Buchholz. The photographs were taken from the front of the Partington Home at 379 Millburn Avenue.

With the township’s Sesquicentennial Celebration held on June 10th, 2007 organizers called it the biggest day in Downtown Millburn in 150 years. The main event, the Sesquicentennial Parade, ran from 1600 to 1800 hours and spanned Millburn Avenue from Wyoming Avenue to the Millburn High School. J. Michael Roberts, the township’s fire chief had recruited fire departments from eight other municipalities to bring their fire apparatus and accompany township rigs. First aid squads from four other towns also brought their ambulances and join the Millburn-Short Hills Volunteer First Aid Squad in the parade.