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Radburn
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English
Etymology
en Sunnyside Gardens, Queens#City Housing Corporation City Housing Corporation the City Housing Corporation for Radburn, New Jersey Radburn 1928, according to Stuart Chase in The New York Times, June 24, 1928. Ostensibly from sco rad burn quick brook. The brook being referenced is Saddle River (Passaic River tributary) Saddle River, according to Radburn's landscape architect Marjorie Sewell Cautley. en 1930 Marjorie Sewell Cautley Planting At Radburn Landscape Architecture Magazine https://www.jstor.org/stable/44659636 21 1 26 Along the Saddle River the problem will be a simple one of preserving old trees and water plants. In this stream for which "Rad Burn" is named, boys have fished and waded since the days when slaves chanted spirituals in the tiny chapel on the Dunkerhook farm.
Proper noun
Radburn, New Jersey
en unincorporated community bor/Fair Lawn co/Bergen County s/New Jersey c/USA.