Bloomfield
a township in Essex co., N. J., on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western and the Erie railroads, the Morris canal, and trolley lines connecting with Newark, the Oranges, Jersey City, and other cities; 10 miles N. W. of New York. It was founded in 1685 under the name of Watsessing and received its present name from Gen. Joseph Bloomfield in 1796. It is the seat of a German Presbyterian Theological Seminary and Mountainside Hospital; contains the residences of many New York business men; and is engaged in the manufacture of church and cabinet organs, woolen goods, hats, shoes, rubber goods, tissue and photographic paper, saddlery, hardware, electric elevators, and a variety of brass BLOW-FLY goods. It has 4 banks and newspapers.
Pop. (1910) 15,070; (1920) 22,019.