Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Kenilworth, NJ

Kenilworth is a borough in Union County, New Jersey, through which tributaries of the Rahway River run as part of the Rahway River Parkway.

Kenilworth traces its development to the late 1890s, when the New Orange Industrial Association purchased farmland in Cranford and Union and subdivided it into building lots to attract industry and residents.

The New Orange Industrial Association lured Upsala College from Brooklyn to the new community with an offer of cash and free land for its campus.

Kenilworth was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on May 13, 1907, from portions of Cranford and Union Township, based on a referendum held on June 18, 1907.

Because the community's original name, New Orange, was often confused with the Oranges in Essex County, the name Kenilworth was chosen at incorporation, taken from the Kenilworth Club, a literary society named for Sir Walter Scott's 1821 novel Kenilworth, which refers to Kenilworth Castle in England.

The 2020 United States census counted 8,427 residents in Kenilworth, an increase of 6.5 percent from the 7,914 counted in 2010.

The 2020 census counted 2,932 households in the borough, which covers 2.15 square miles.

Lenape Park, a 450-acre wildlife reserve that is part of the Rahway River Parkway, includes portions of Kenilworth, and a paved trail of about 4.5 miles runs eastward through the borough's Black Brook Park.

The Galloping Hill Golf Course, a Union County public golf course, is located in Kenilworth along the route of the abandoned Rahway Valley Railroad, where residents have proposed a 7.3-mile rail trail.

Merck & Co. moved its global headquarters to Kenilworth in 2015, onto the campus that had previously served as the global headquarters of Schering-Plough, before announcing in 2020 that it would relocate its headquarters to Rahway by the end of 2023.