Winfield Township, New Jersey

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Winfield Township is a township in Union County, New Jersey, in the United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 1,514. Winfield and Linden share the same ZIP Code and Area Code. Winfield Township was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on August 6, 1941, from portions of Clark and Linden, passing over the Governor's veto. The Winfield Park Mutual Ownership Defense Housing Project (Project No. 28071) is a 700 unit development of 254 buildings that was originally planned and developed by and built for the defense workers of the Kearny, New Jersey, shipyards. This was the last of eight projects undertaken by the Mutual Ownership Defense Housing Division of the Federal Works Agency under the leadership of Colonel Lawrence Westbrook. At earlier stages Winfield Park was also known as the Rahway River Park Project. John T. Rowland served as the architect of the project.