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Frank E. Rodgers got the longest continuous streets in Harrison named after him. Frank E. Rodgers Blvd runs north to south the entire length of the Town of Harrison. Most new residents know very little about Frank E. Rodgers except he got a street named after him. Some think he is a...
In 1904, the then Governor of New Jersey, Governor Franklin Murphy signed into law legislation entitled “An Act to Provide for the Election of Mayors in Incorporated Towns and to Regulate Their Duties”. Under the new law, Joseph P. Riordan ran in Harrison’s Democratic...
Photo: Professors and Students from NJIT review map of the Town of Harrison with Town Engineer Joseph Cundari (4th from the Left) along with then Councilman Anselmo Millan (3rd from the Left).
Stories about Harrison’s longtime Town Engineer abound. Before computers and CAD...
Francis E. Rodgers (November 15, 1909 – February 8, 2000) was an American Democratic Party politician who was among the longest-serving Mayors in U.S. history, first elected in 1946 as Mayor of Harrison, New Jersey. He served in the position for 48 years from 1946 to 1995, having been...
