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Edison, New Jersey

Population: 97,159

Located in Middlesex County

Edison Township, New Jersey

Edison is one of Middlesex County's most sought after towns because of it's easy commute and excellent school system. The township schools offer before and after latch keys programs for working parents.

Edison Township has a lot to offer both the young and the young at heart with two community centers and a senior citizen's building as well. Edison has 25 neighborhood parks and in the summer they offer art's & crafts. In addition, Edison offers plenty of shopping with Menlo Park Mall and Woodbridge Center offering stores such as Nordstrom and Sears.

Edison, formerly known as Raritan Township, was first settled in the late 1600's when it was part of Woodbridge and Piscataway townships. Its first families included the Dunhams, Martins, Bonhams, Hulls and FitzRandolphs, to whom land grants were given. Many of these names live on in the community in the form of street names and section names, but it is known that people have lived in the Edison area since prehistoric times. Skull and bone fragments from the Stone Age have been discovered in the Piscataway area, and more recently, arrowheads and cooking implements, ascribed to Indians living in the area, were found in an archaeological dig in the Dismal Swamp.