Community
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. Winfield Park is located immediately off of exit 136 of the Garden
State Parkway; the municipalities of Cranford, Linden and Clark surround Winfield Township, a governmental entity established
to enclose the Winfield Park Project. The Township is bordered on three sides by the Rahway River and Rahway River Park (which
adds substantially to the park-like setting envisioned by the planners). Units range in size and type from single family homes
to two- and three-bedroom apartments, to one story
two-bedroom apartments; and one-bedroom apartments. Within the town are located an
elementary school, two-store shopping center and Senior Citizen Hall, Community Center, Mutual Housing Office and Garage,
Volunteer Fire and Ambulance Squad Building, and Municipal Building/ Police Office.
Community History
20th - School Closed, President's Day
21st - Evening Parent Teacher Conferences, BOE Meeting 7:00 pm -
Agenda Posted
22nd - Afernoon Parent Teacher Conferences
29th - PTO Assembly - African Dancers 1:45 pm
