Fair Lawn Wedding

Fair Lawn is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 31,637. As of 2005, the Census Bureau estimates a population of 31,408[1].

Fair Lawn was incorporated as a borough on March 6, 1924 as "Fairlawn," from portions of Saddle River Township. The name was taken from "Fairlawn," David Acker's built in 1865, that later became the Fair Lawn Municipal Building). In 1933, the official spelling of the borough's name was split into its present two-word form as "Fair Lawn" Borough[2].

Radburn is an unincorporated new town located within Fair Lawn, and was founded in 1929 as "a town for the motor age."

Fair Lawn had been known as Slooterdam in its earlier days, taken from a Dutch word used to describe a Native American weir used to trap fish on the Passaic River[3]. Fair Lawn was named after the Estate of David Acker which was named "Fair Lawn" and fronted onto what is now Fair Lawn Avenue. The home became the town municipal building and was later torn down when a senior citizen center was built where it stood.

Fair Lawn is located at 40562N, 7470W (40.933943, -74.116711)GR1.