These snippets were published July 25, 1936 about ground-breaking for the Meadowbrook neighborhood but there wasn't a lot of ceremony or pomp for the event.
Scanned quality of the newspaper isn't the best from the source
but as a reminder, click the images to enlarge them for reading.
The article was layered into some odd columns when published in the paper
so there's another reason for the fragmented feel of these snippets...
insert your 420 jokes here if you must...
and this map was published earlier in the year, April 1936
illustrating the proposed layout of the neighborhood
You'll notice it cross the Green Brook and is in both Union and Somerset counties
and here is the first survey of the first section filed in June in Somerset county.
And then 2 years later in 1938 it was all shovels and hands on deck, even an excavator
behind participants for the ground breaking
of Meadowbrook Village in 1938
... 3rd from the left is George Wells, president of Meadowbrook Inc.
the rest are members of the FHA and the new owners of that project.
And here is again, 3rd from the right, behind the guy with the shovel, at the ground breaking for the Barlow Elementary school, on the corner of East Front and Farragut, Dec 20th 1938
so there's another reason for the fragmented feel of these snippets...
insert your 420 jokes here if you must...
and this map was published earlier in the year, April 1936
illustrating the proposed layout of the neighborhood
You'll notice it cross the Green Brook and is in both Union and Somerset counties
and here is the first survey of the first section filed in June in Somerset county.
And then 2 years later in 1938 it was all shovels and hands on deck, even an excavator
behind participants for the ground breaking
of Meadowbrook Village in 1938
... 3rd from the left is George Wells, president of Meadowbrook Inc.
the rest are members of the FHA and the new owners of that project.
And here is again, 3rd from the right, behind the guy with the shovel, at the ground breaking for the Barlow Elementary school, on the corner of East Front and Farragut, Dec 20th 1938
... my guess is there wasn't a big to-do for the ground breaking for Meadowbrook neighborhood and instead they pivoted their plans for a "reveal" opening of the "model home" later that year November 14th, 1936, as there were still minds (NIMBYs) to change about the progress of this development taking place on the old estate.
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