HISTORY: Where is This Street? It's Barron Avenue in Woodbridge
Compare Barron Avenue as a dirt road with a jerry-rigged bridge over a creek, and Barron Avenue today, paved and refined.
We came across a picture of a dirt road in Woodbridge, circa early 20th century. The road, which was long and uphill, had a rigged crossing over a creek. There were tons of trees, no curbing, and what looked like old Model Ts parked in front of a house with a porch. We challenged Patch readers to guess where this street in Woodbridge Proper was. Answers on both the article and Facebook were good: Amboy Avenue near the creek by South Park Drive, Woodbridge Avenue in Sewaren, Ridgedale Avenue, even Rahway Avenue. The first correct guess went to a Patch reader who goes by the initials AO. He correctly guessed that this old photograph was of Barron Avenue. Second and third place go to Angela Sambataro and Jay W. Frangione, who also correctly…
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MrDoughnut
10:48 pm on Tuesday, March 26, 2013
I don't live in that area so with out the Woodbridge book I'm lost as far as identifying any pictures. My area of Iselin has changed so much down town it's lost it's old town atmosphere. more ›