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Timeline Of Jersey City, New Jersey
The following is a timeline of the Jersey City, New Jersey#History, history of Jersey City, New Jersey, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. Prior to 19th century 19th century * 1802 - Population of Paulus Hook, Jersey City, Paulus Hook: 13. * 1804 ** Land bought from Cornelius Van Vorst by the Associates of the Jersey Company. ** Streets of the Hook laid out. * 1812 - Steam ferry begins operating. * 1820 - "City of Jersey" incorporated in Bergen Township, New Jersey (1661–1862), Bergen Township. * 1824 - Jersey Glass Company established. * 1825 - Jersey Porcelain and Earthenware Company incorporated. * 1833 - American Pottery Manufacturing Company in business. * 1834 ** New Jersey Railroad terminal and Paterson and Hudson River Railroad terminal established. ** Newark, New Jersey, Newark-Jersey City horsecar begins operating. * 1835 - ''Jersey City Gazette'' newspaper begins publication. * 1836 - Morris Canal in operation. * 1838 - City renamed "Jersey City." * 1840 - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jersey City, New Jersey
Jersey City is the List of municipalities in New Jersey, second-most populousTable1. New Jersey Counties and Most Populous Cities and Townships: 2020 and 2010 Censuses New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Accessed December 1, 2022. city (New Jersey), city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark, New Jersey, Newark.The Counties and Most Populous Cities and Townships in 2010 in New Jersey: 2000 and 2010 , United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bergen City, New Jersey
Bergen was a city (New Jersey), city that existed in Hudson County, New Jersey, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, from 1855 to 1870. History Bergen was originally incorporated as a town (New Jersey), town by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 24, 1855, from portions of Bergen Township, Bergen County, New Jersey (Historical 1693), Bergen Township. In 1862, it did a reverse takeover, absorbing the remaining portions of Bergen Township. On April 14, 1863, portions of the town were taken to form Greenville, Jersey City, Greenville Township. Bergen was reincorporated as the ''City'' of Bergen on March 11, 1868: On May 2, 1870, both Bergen City and Hudson City, New Jersey, Hudson City were annexed by Jersey City, New Jersey, Jersey City. Bergen City roughly corresponds with the southern part of Journal Square and the Bergen-Lafayette, Jersey City, Bergen-Lafayette neighborhoods. References {{coord, 40.69, -74.08, type:adm3rd_globe:earth_region:US-NJ, display=tit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Teresa Norton
Mary Teresa Norton (née Hopkins; March 7, 1875 – August 2, 1959) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented Jersey City and Bayonne in the United States House of Representatives from 1925 to 1951. She was the first woman member of the Democratic Party elected to Congress and the first woman elected to represent New Jersey, or any state in the Northeast. She chaired four House committees during her tenure and was a labor advocate and a supporter of women's rights. Early life and education She was born as Mary Teresa Hopkins in Jersey City, New Jersey. She attended parochial schools and Jersey City High School (since renamed William L. Dickinson High School) and graduated from Packard Business College, New York City in 1896. She married Robert Francis Norton in 1909. Early career Norton was president of the Queen's Daughters' Day Nursery Association of Jersey City from 1916 to 1927. She was appointed to represent Hudson County on the New Jersey Democrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincoln High School (New Jersey)
Lincoln High School Academy of Governance and Social Sciences (or simply Lincoln High School) is a four-year public high school located in Jersey City, in Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operated as part of the Jersey City Public Schools, serving students in ninth through twelfth grade. As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 877 students and 63.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.9:1. There were 517 students (59.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 9 (1.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Lincoln High School |
Downtown Hudson Tubes
The Downtown Hudson Tubes (formerly the Cortlandt Street Tunnel) are a pair of tunnels that carry PATH trains under the Hudson River in the United States, between New York City to the east and Jersey City, New Jersey, to the west. The tunnels run between the World Trade Center station on the New York side and the Exchange Place station on the New Jersey side. PATH operates two services through the Downtown Tubes, Newark–World Trade Center and Hoboken–World Trade Center. The former normally operates 24/7, while the latter only operates on weekdays. Description The Downtown Hudson Tubes use a roughly east-southeast to west-northwest path under the Hudson River, connecting Manhattan in the east with Jersey City in the west. Each track is located in its own tube, which enables better ventilation by the so-called piston effect. When a train passes through the tunnel it pushes out the air in front of it toward the closest ventilation shaft, and also pulls air into the rail t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Block Drug
Block Drug Company was a pharmaceutical company based in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, that specialized in dental care products. Its most popular products included Polident denture cleanser, Poli-Grip denture adhesive, Dentu-Creme denture toothpaste, Nytol sleeping pill, Tegrin medicated shampoo for psoriasis, Lava hand soaps (acquired from Procter & Gamble), Beano and Phazyme anti-gas products, Balmex diaper rash ointments, and Sensodyne desensitizing toothpaste.The Gale Group. ''International Directory of Company Histories'', republished a"Block Drug Company, Inc.: Information from Answers.com" Answers Corporation. GlaxoSmithKline (now GSK plc) purchased the company for $1.24 billion in 2001.Gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colgate Clock (Jersey City)
The Colgate Clock is an octagonal clock facing the Hudson River near Exchange Place in Jersey City, New Jersey. The clock has a diameter of . It was located atop of what was once the headquarters of the Colgate-Palmolive, until 1985, when it was moved to a ground-level location south of that building, which was demolished and replaced with the Goldman Sachs Tower. History The Colgate Clock once perched atop the Colgate plant at 85-99 Hudson Street in Jersey City, New Jersey. This clock was built in 1924 to replace an earlier clock designed by Colgate engineer Warren Davey and constructed by the Seth Thomas Clock Company for Colgate's centennial in 1906. After it was replaced, the earlier clock was relocated to a Colgate factory in Clarksville, Indiana. The Jersey City clock was maintained by John A. Winters from the 1930s until his retirement in 1976. As of 2005, the Colgate Clock stands on an otherwise empty lot. The other buildings in the complex were demolished in 1985 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincoln Park (Jersey City)
Lincoln Park is an urban park in Jersey City, New Jersey with an area of . Part of the Hudson County Park System, it opened in 1905 and was originally known as West Side Park. The park was designed by Daniel W. Langton and Charles N. Lowrie, both founding members of the American Society of Landscape Architects and part of the City Beautiful movement. The park consists of two distinct sections: Lincoln Park East, , and Lincoln Park West, . The sections are named for their positions relative to U.S. Route 1/9 Truck, which passes between them, and are connected by foot and vehicular bridges over the highway. The Lincoln Park Nature Walk is part of wetlands restoration project adjacent to the Hackensack River. The Hackensack RiverWalk is a partially completed greenway (landscape), greenway along the banks of the river running the length of the Hudson County shoreline. The East Coast Greenway also traverses the park. History Lincoln Park was the first park in the Hudson County, New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Type Founders
American Type Founders (ATF) Co. was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85 percent of all type manufactured in the United States at the time. De Vinne, Theodore Low, ''The Practice of Typography'', Century Company, N.Y.C., 1922, p. 105. The new company, consisting of a consolidation of firms from throughout the United States, was incorporated in New Jersey. The American Type Founders Co. should not be confused with the American Type Founders' Association, also called the Type Founders' Association of the United States. Both institutions are identified by the same acronym, ATF. The ATF Association was formed in 1864 and was responsible for establishing the American point system in 1886 based on 83 picas exactly equal to 35 cm. The ATF Co. was not formed until 1892. All but six of the 23 foundries in the company were members of the ATF Association. The American Type Founders Co. was the dominant American manufacturer of m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Atlantic And Pacific Tea Company Warehouse (Jersey City, New Jersey)
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company Warehouse is a historic formerly commercial building at 150 Bay Street in Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. Built as a warehouse for The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P) in 1900, it is the major surviving remnant of a five-building complex of the nation's first major grocery store chain. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978, and now houses a mix of residences and storage facilities. Description and history The former A&P warehouse is located just northeast of the central downtown area of Jersey City, on the west side of Prevost Street between 1st and Bay Streets. It is nine stories in height, constructed out of steel and reinforced concrete, with some wall sections fashioned from red brick. It has a footprint of , and had more than of interior space. Architecturally, its facades are divided into rectangular sections by vertical piers and horizontal bands of concrete, with most sections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Railroad Of New Jersey Terminal
The Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal, also known as Communipaw Terminal and Jersey City Terminal, was the Central Railroad of New Jersey's waterfront passenger terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey. The terminal was built in 1889, replacing an earlier one that had been in use since 1864. It operated until April 30, 1967. It also serviced the Central Railroad of New Jersey-operated Reading Railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the Lehigh Valley Railroad during various periods in its 78 years of operation. The terminal was one of five passenger railroad terminals that lined the Hudson Waterfront during the 19th and 20th centuries, the others being Weehawken, Hoboken, Pavonia and Exchange Place, with Hoboken being the only station that is still in use, as of 2024. The headhouse was renovated and incorporated into Liberty State Park. The station has been listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and National Register of Historic Places since September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavonia Terminal
Pavonia Terminal was the Erie Railroad terminal station, terminal on the North River (Hudson River), Hudson River located in the Harsimus section of Jersey City, New Jersey. The station opened in 1861 and closed in 1958 when the Erie Railroad moved its passenger services to nearby Hoboken Terminal. The New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway also ran commuter trains from the terminal and various street cars, ferries and the underground Hudson and Manhattan Railroad serviced the station. The station was abandoned in 1958 and demolished in 1961. The site was eventually redeveloped into the Newport, Jersey City, Newport district in the late 20th century. Pavonia was one of five passenger railroad terminals that lined the western shore of the Hudson Waterfront from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries, along with those at Weehawken Terminal, Weehawken, Hoboken Terminal, Hoboken, Exchange Place (PRR station), Exchange Place, and Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal, Communipaw, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
