Clifton, NJ news and local guide

Clifton was long an agricultural center. From 1903 the U.S. Department of Agriculture operated the U.S. Animal Quarantine Station there, served by the Newark Branch of the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. It was the main place on the East Coast where imported poultry, horses, cattle and zoo animals were held in quarantine to make sure they carried no diseases into the country. From 1900 to 1979 the station inspected more than 95 percent of cloven-hooved animals entering the United States from abroad, including antelopes, giraffes, camels, sheep and musk oxen. In the late 1970s the facility moved to Stewart International Airport, and two of its former barns became the Clifton Arts Center, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Though Clifton has long since turned from farmland to suburban neighborhoods near Manhattan, it still has three small working farms, among them Ploch's Farm, run by the same family since 1867. Sources Wikipedia: Clifton, New Jersey