New Durham is a neighborhood in North Bergen Township in

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, United States. It is located near the foot of Union Turnpike and

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, and south of the

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of the

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. It is one of the few residential areas along the otherwise industrial/commercial Tonnelle Ave, and site of one of the town's main post offices. Hamilton monument map

The area was the site of the colonial American community centered on the

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when most of North Hudson was called Bergen Woods, a name recalled in Bergenwood Section on the steep slopes of the west side of the

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was one of the plank roads

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, crossing the

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and the Hackensack Meadows that joined the village at

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with that at Hackenack that had been made the county seat of then much larger Bergen County in 1710. A congregation, established in the 1800s, still uses the name for their church. New Durham was a station stop on New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway's route into

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, just north of

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and the Susquehanna Transfer. The Meadowview Section of North Bergen rises to the east of New Durham to the Municipal Building on Kennedy Boulevard. This neighborhood is nestled between the many cemeteries- Flower Hill Cemetery,

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Hoboken Cemetery The Hoboken Cemetery is located at 5500 Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen, New Jersey, United States. in the New Durham, North Bergen, New Durham section. It was owned by the Hoboken, New Jersey, City of Hoboken. The Flower Hill Cemetery borders it ...

, Macphelah Cemetery and

Weehawken Cemetery The Weehawken Cemetery, like neighboring Hoboken Cemetery, is not located in its namesake town of Weehawken but rather on the western slope of the Hudson Palisades in North Bergen, New Jersey, with its main entrance on Bergen Turnpike. At its east ...

, that characterize the area and collectively constitute one of the largest green open spaces in the otherwise densely populated North Hudson area.

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