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In the 1920s , the road was designated as part of New Jersey state highway 8. After the 1927 New Jersey State Highway Renumbering , part of the road became NJ 23 , while another section became part of NJ 9 (now NJ 506 ). Charlie Barnet wrote the song ''Pompton Turnpike'' about the Meadowbrook , a performance venue during the Big-Band era, that is on Pompton Avenue in Cedar Grove. It is now a Macedonian Orthodox Church. President Grover Cleveland was born in a small house on this road, which exists today, in its original condition, as a tourist attraction, in the town of Caldwell . Cleveland's father's church stands a few tenths of a mile down Bloomfield Avenue from Cleveland's original home. The road passes through the following New Jersey communities:
To follow the road in Wayne, it is necessary to turn right immediately after crossing the Passaic River from Little Falls, cross under a railroad trestle, and turn left. NJ 23 bypasses this short stretch of the old road. Unfortunately, it is impossible to return to NJ 23 at the north end of this short stretch. In Pequannock, the street signs merely read "Turnpike". However, overhead signs placed by Morris County spell out the entire name of the road. HISTORY In 1806 Israel Crane , a prominent businessman closely associated with the development of Montclair and Bloomfield , obtained a charter on 24 February , 1806 from the state to build the private road, in the name of the "Newark and Bloomfield Turnpike Company". Israel Crane eventually became the sole owner of the stock, and the sole operator of this toll road known as the Newark-Pompton Turnpike, which opened with four toll gates at Newark, Montclair, Pine Brook, and Singac. Because of his exclusive control of the turnpike, he was given the title "King Crane." The "Newark and Bloomfield Turnpike" made the markets of Newark and New York accessible to the farms in the northern and western portions of New Jersey. With this improved transportation Bloomfield and Montclair became commercial centers, with taverns, wheelwrights, blacksmiths and wagon makers. In 1870 the executors of Mr. Crane's estate sold the Turnpike to the Essex County Road Board. They widened, graded and macadamized the now public highway, and gave it the name of Bloomfield Avenue. In the 1930s , the Newark-Pompton Turnpike was built into a four-lane undivided arterial to connect with US 46. During the 1980s , NJ 23 was upgraded from an outmoded arterial to a modern freeway with service roads. EXTERNAL LINKS
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