Millburn

Millburn, township (town), Essex county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., just west of Newark and lying between the Rahway and Passaic rivers. It is primarily a residential community that includes the fashionable Short Hills district on the north and west. About 1664, colonists from New York purchased land from the Delaware Indians and founded Elizabethtown, which was divided in 1793 when the Springfield township was formed. During the American Revolution the Battle of Springfield (June 23,...