Just For Fun - Old Belleville N.J.

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The writings of Belleville native Anthony Buccino
Anthony's World

Rambling Round

Connections to Old Belleville

Old Belleville

Remembering our town one bit at a time!

Belleville, New Jersey

Belleville - Just for Fun

In no particular order

Alligator sightings

New York Times:
September 12, 1933:
"A squadron of riflemen was organized here [Belleville, NJ] today to hunt for alligators in the Passaic River. . . . Belleville police said it is probable the alligators were some of the six reptiles which disappeared last year from a lagoon in Military Park, Newark."

A Beautiful Mind was partially filmed in Belleville, N.J., at the former Essex County Isolation Hospital, aka Soho Hospital.

The tract is located at the corner of Belleville and Franklin avenues across from School 10.

Thomas Edison: August 1890
Purchases property in Silver Lake, New Jersey (now the Bloomfield-Belleville area); locates the plant of the Edison Manufacturing Company on the site. Area known as Belmont Avenue and Alva Street, presently Pathmark Supermarket.

Area referred to in Who Is Brother? Uncle Bim

Belleville Borders - 1910 Census

Watershed map of Belleville

Hendricks Field Golf Course
240 Franklin Ave
Belleville, NJ 07109
Phone: (973)751-0178

Crime Statistics

Holy Family School, Nutley, class of 1959

Classes were split with Belleville & Nutley students

US Coast Guard - USS Belleville WPC-372

Branch Brook Park Alliance

Newark City Subway

Little Italy - Newark area

Arch bridge dividing Newark & Belleville (Post card)