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Welcome to Madison

Madison, New Jersey, is proud to be a town of innovation, even before its incorporation in 1889, when it created its own water and electric utilities. In 1834, the arrival of train service dramatically altered the face of a small farming community, as it anchored a new and growing downtown.

Today, nearly 16,000 residents strong, that traditional, pedestrian-scaled downtown remains fairly intact with 52 buildings listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places. The downtown hub is still Madison’s fully handicapped-accessible train station, which is easily accessed by bus, bike or on foot.

In 1998, a town-wide, fiber-optic network connecting all schools and public buildings in a high-speed Internet connection was installed. Today, that network, called Rosenet, in homage to Madison’s earlier days as a premier rose-growing community, continues to provide video conferencing and distance learning for our library and schools.

Follow our town government and events on the Web site, gov.rosenet.org. One site link employs GoogleEarth for a virtual, 3-dimensional tour of the downtown. Madison is only the second town in the U.S. to have modeled its town in 3-D using volunteers (McMinnville, Tennessee, being the first) and the only town to do so under the leadership of an Eagle Scout candidate, Teddy Bogdanski, with guidance from Google, using its free software called SketchUp.

This year, two educational and government TV channels will launch from the high school for internal use, as well as hyperlocal news broadcast over cable.

Madison’s public and parochial schools, together with Drew University and nearby Fairleigh Dickinson University and the College of Saint Elizabeth, add an important intellectual element to the diversity of the town’s corporate, business, professional, occupational and cultural mix. Links to educational, arts and cultural, religious and not-for-profit organizations can be found on a community Web site, www.rosenet.org.

I hope you will enjoy reading about our town in this publication and will consider visiting us, exploring our historic sites and patronizing our businesses. We look forward to welcoming you, then you can see for yourself that Madison is Someplace; not Anyplace.