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Scotch Plains
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Scotch Plains

Township in northeastern New Jersey, 13 km/8 mi west of Linden; population (1990) 21,200. It is bounded by the Watchung Reservation to the north and the Ashbrook Reservation to the south, and is an affluent suburb.

Originally a Delaware village, it was settled by Scottish dissenters and Quakers in 1684. It was part of Elizabeth until 1794, of Westfield from 1794 to 1877, and of Fanwood from 1877 to 1917, before becoming independent.



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