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Roselle and Roselle Park

Roselle and Roselle Park

      boroughs (towns) in Union county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., adjoining Elizabeth on the west. Originally part of Linden until 1894, Roselle was settled before the American Revolution; Abraham Clark (Clark, Abraham), one of New Jersey's signers of the Declaration of Independence, was a native son. Mainly residential suburbs of New York City, both communities have some industry. Manufactures include pumps, paper products, plastics, tools, fire alarms, machinery, and metal products.

      The site of some of inventor Thomas A. Edison (Edison, Thomas Alva)'s experiments in the 1880s on the electric lightbulb, Roselle was the first community in the world to have an incandescent electric street-lighting system. In Roselle Park, once called North Roselle, Guglielmo Marconi (Marconi, Guglielmo), inventor of the wireless, established a plant in 1913, which was a leading manufacturer of communications equipment during World War I. WDY, a pioneer commercial radio station, began broadcasting in Roselle Park in 1921. Roselle was incorporated in 1894, Roselle Park in 1901. Pop. (1990) Roselle, 20,314; Roselle Park, 12,805; (2000) Roselle, 21,274; Roselle Park, 13,281.

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