Southern Line

The southern line of Bloomfield was established in 1806, when the township of Newark was divided by its own authority into three wards,— the Newark Ward, the Orange Ward and the Bloomfield Ward. The Orange Ward became that same year the township of Orange and the Bloomfield Ward became the township of Bloomfield in 1812. The line between the Orange and the Bloomfield Wards was established in 1806, as follows:

"Beginning at the Green Island in Passaik River, and running from thence to the Boiling Spring on lands of Phinehas Baldwin, dec’d., and from thence to the Bridge at the Slough between the houses of Jonathan Baldwin and Elihu Pierson, and from thence to the bridge near Martin Richards’, and from thence to Turkey Eagle Rock, on the top of the first Mountain; which we agree shall be the line between the Bloomfield Ward anti the wards of Newark and Orange."