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Kean invested in banks, railroads, and public utilities including the Elizabethtown Gas Light Company (which he founded), [12] and the Elizabethtown Water Company (controlled by his son, John, and today a part of American Water). [12] He helped to found the Central Railroad of New Jersey and served as its first president. [12]
Elizabeth had the tenth-highest percentage of Hispanic residents among municipalities in New Jersey in 2010. [70] Of the 41,596 households, 37.0% had children under the age of 18; 39.2% were married couples living together; 22.0% had a female householder with no husband present and 29.5% were non-families.
Liberty Hall, also known as the Governor William Livingston House, located on Morris Avenue in Union, Union County, New Jersey, United States, is a historic home where many leading influential people lived. It was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) in 1938. [4] The house was added to the National Register of Historic ...
Designated NJRHP. September 29, 1994. The Mid-Town Historic District is a 55-acre (22 ha) historic district in the central business district of Elizabeth, in Union County, New Jersey. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 5, 1995, for its significance in architecture, art, commerce, community planning, politics ...
Paulus Hook. Paulus Hook is a community on the Hudson River waterfront in Jersey City, New Jersey. It is located one mile (1.5 kilometres) across the river from Manhattan. The name Hook comes from the Dutch word "hoeck", which translates to "point of land." This "point of land" has been described as an elevated area, the location of which today ...
The Union Watersphere, also known as the Union Water Tower, is a water tower topped with a sphere-shaped water tank in Union, New Jersey, United States [1] and characterized as the World's Tallest Water Sphere. [2] Adjacent to U.S. Route 22, New Jersey Route 82, and the Garden State Parkway, the
In 1914, American Water Works and Guarantee Company became American Water Works and Electric Company. [6] In 1947 it was reorganized as American Water Works Company, Inc. [7] Since December 2018, the company has its headquarters in Camden, New Jersey, [8] and has about 6,500 professionals who provide drinking water, wastewater and related ...
The headwaters of the Elizabeth are in East Orange in Essex County. [1] The river rises in an urban area at the border between Irvington and the Vailsburg neighborhood of Newark. [2] It flows in a generally southern direction through the center of Irvington in a concrete channel with masonry walls built in the 1920s and 30s [3][4] passing along ...