By Diane Norek Harrison
EDISON-This is from my own material dated 1882 when Edison Township was known as Raritan Township: Although the allotment of a portion of the common lands for the benefit of schools is evidence of the interest in education felt by the first settlers, yet there was no action on the part of the town (then Woodbridge) to effect the establishment of a school, until 1689. This was in march of that year, and James Fullerton, who owned lands with his brother, near what is now Plainfield township, and near Oak-Tree School, as it was called, in this township, was employed as “schoolmaster.”
