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This Union County website page is for History, Facts, Archives, Records, Museums, Exhibits, Documents, Genealogy, Libraries, Historians, Research, Historic Preservation, Ancestry and Statistics in Union County, Berkeley Heights, Clark, Cranford, Elizabeth, Fanwood, Garwood, Hillside, Industrial Hillside, Kenilworth, Linden, Mountainside, New Providence, North Plainfield, Plainfield, Rahway, Roselle, Roselle Park, Scotch Plains, Springfield, Summit, Union, Vauxhall, Westfield and Winfield Park.
Places of interest in Union County include Newark Liberty International Airport, Drake House Museum, Watchung Reservation, Jersey Gardens, Tamaques Reservation, Boxwood Hall, Kean University, Newark Bay, Paper Mill Playhouse and the Rahway River.
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Historic
Elizabeth was established in 1664 and became the first English
settlement in New Jersey, and was named for the wife of Sir George
Carteret. It became a prominent and thriving economic center,
and it was the first capital of New Jersey. The first major industry,
the Singer Sewing Machine Company came to Elizabeth and employed
as many as 2,000 people. Union County was originally a part of
Essex County and was officially formed in 1857. It was the last
of New Jersey's counties to be created. 
