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Welcome to the web portal of historic Bloomfield, New Jersey  The once-Lenape land that became Bloomfield was settled simultaneously by descendants of Connecticut Puritan settlers spreading northward from Newark and Dutch-American colonists spilling over the southern boundary of Passaic (then part of Bergen) County. Farms, mills, and mines flourished, as did neighborhoods, before Bloomfield was set apart from Newark. Eventually, Belleville (including Nutley and Woodside), Montclair, and Glen Ridge were separated, and waves of immigrants joined the first families to populate the municipalities of northeastern Essex County, NJ. | Explore history from the local perspective.
 Bloomfield, an ancestral home to countless people, has been ethnically and socially mixed for 300+ years, with its share of ups and downs. Many sources for this site are unique.  Local history records are precious and endangered. Each document on this site is available because someone preserved it, in some cases for hundreds of years. | Research Collections
Help share the history that has survived. 
If you can loan or donate images that might enrich this virtual museum, or you volunteer time to help this effort, please contact us!
Historical Society of Bloomfield, New Jersey 90 Broad Street (2nd Floor of Children's Library) Bloomfield NJ 07003 973-743-8844 BloomfieldHist@aol.com (e-mail checked weekly) |
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