![]() On November 16, 1910, Belleville was reincorporated as a town, based on the results of a referendum held eight days earlier. The independent municipality of Belleville city was created within the township on March 27, 1874, and was dissolved on February 22, 1876. Portions of the township were taken to create Woodside Township (March 24, 1869, now defunct) and Franklin Township (February 18, 1874, now known as Nutley). Originally known as "Second River" or "Washington", the inhabitants renamed the settlement "Belleville" in 1797.Belleville was originally incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 8, 1839, from portions of Bloomfield. Nutley derived its name from the estate of the Satterthwaite family, established in 1844, which stretched along the Passaic River and from an artist's colony in the area. ![]() In 1981, the town was one of seven Essex County municipalities to pass a referendum to become a township, joining four municipalities that had already made the change, of what would ultimately be more than a dozen Essex County municipalities to reclassify themselves as townships in order take advantage of federal revenue sharing policies that allocated townships a greater share of government aid to municipalities on a per capita basis. ![]() ![]() Nutley was incorporated as a Town on March 5, 1902, replacing Franklin Township. What is now Nutley was originally incorporated as Franklin Township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 18, 1874, from portions of Belleville Township. ![]()
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