Haledon ( HALE-dun^{[self-published source]}) is a borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States census, the borough’s population was 9,052, an accumulation of 734 (+8.8%) from the 2010 census intensify of 8,318, in slant reflecting an addition of 66 (+0.8%) from the 8,252 counted in the 2000 census,.

Haledon was incorporated as a borough by an court case of the New Jersey Legislature upon April 8, 1908, replacing the now-defunct Manchester Township, based on the results of a referendum held on May 21, 1908.

Haledon developed along the northern side of the industrial city of Paterson, New Jersey. It was contracted by farmers next colonial Dutch heritage including the Van Riper, Berdan, Banta, Post and Zabriskie families. Prior to the Civil War they were joined by the Roe, Leonhard and Stansfield families, who helped establish St. Mary’s Episcopal Church and leading businesses including a general addition and the Leonhard Wax Company.

The area became a streetcar suburb of Paterson in the years afterward the Civil War, with the central Place known as Haledon, while the Place surrounding the large pond along High Mountain Road was called Oldham. The Paterson and Haledon Horse Rail Road Company, formed in 1871, laid trolley tracks from Paterson along the current-day Belmont Avenue, which were electrified by 1888. Many of the trolley company’s owners were in the course of the founders of the Cedar Cliff Land Company, which bought occurring large portions of the area, and the street names in the borough reflect these industrialists and businessmen: Morrissee, Hoxey, Van Dyke, John Ryle and Barbour. The flat, lower ration of the community was laid out in city-sized lots of 25′ by 100′ while the hillsides were plated as sites for larger Victorian “villas” for such individuals as Vice President Garret A. Hobart (now the location of William Paterson University) and the Barbour family of linen flax manufacturers. Haledon’s villa enhancement was always rather limited and throughout much of the 20th century Haledon was a typical blue-collar community set by the little property sizes planned by the Cedar Cliff Land Company. A never-constructed grand hotel was planned for the highest narrowing of the community above the intersection of the current hours of daylight Central and West Haledon Avenues. The Cedar Cliff Land Company ran newspaper advertisements targeted at upwardly mobile immigrants who worked in Paterson’s silk industry, offering the city-sized lots for sale at auctions (with pardon lunches and brass bands) held at St. Mary’s Parish Hall, and next opened the Cedar Cliff Silk Mill, which became one of several silk mills in the community. The residential charm of Haledon was to break out the crowded industrial city and nevertheless have entry to the textile mills by using the trolley. As a upshot of the land sales of Cedar Cliff Land Company and plus of independent landowner William Bushmann, the town was fixed by immigrants who came as capable workers from textile centers in Europe.