Plainfield, a city of New Jersey, on Green Brook, 24 miles by rail WSW. of New York, many of whose business men have their homes here.
Clothing, hats, and machinery are manufactured. Pop. (1860) 3224; (1890) 11,267.
Plainfield,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 213–214
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