Dr. Wolfe Reading Garden Dedication Ceremony

We invite the community on Monday, May 13, at 11 a.m. for the formal ceremony dedicating the Dr. Deborah Cannon Partridge Wolfe Reading Garden created at Lincoln Park. Note: this date was postponed due to expected rain May 9.

Who Was Dr. Wolfe?

Cranford’s notable resident Dr. Wolfe was a trailblazer and a woman of firsts. She was the first African American to be named in the National Honor Society at Cranford High School, the first female to be ordained as a Baptist minister; the first African American faculty member at Queens College.

Leading the way in a number of notable civil rights and education initiatives, Dr. Wolfe is a woman the Township is proud to call one of Cranford’s most treasured citizens.

Visit the Cranford Historical Society website to learn more about Dr. Wolfe and her outstanding achievements—and see a photo of her on the grandstand with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during his "I Have a Dream" speech. Memoir.