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In the middle 19th century, Newark added insurance to its repertoire of businesses; Mutual Benefit was founded in the city in 1845 and Prudential in 1873. Prudential, or "the Pru" as generations knew it, was founded by another transplanted New Englander, John Fairfield Dryden.
The Newark Boys Chorus School was founded in the 1960s. [397] University Heights Charter School, which opened in 2006, taught 614 students in grades Pre-K–8 in 2014–2015. [ 398 ]
1803 - Newark Female Charitable Society founded. [7]1810 - Weller's Circulating Library in business (approximate date). [8]1814 - Newark Bible Society founded. [9]1817 - Newark Colonization Society founded.
Newark, New Jersey, was founded in 1666 and became a township on October 31, 1693, and granted a Royal charter on April 27, 1713. It was incorporated by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798, and reincorporated as city in 1836.
Newark was founded in 1666, and its downtown grew around the site of the early settlement at Four Corners. Early highrises were developed there and at Military Park during the economic boom of the Roaring Twenties. In the New Newark era [2] (1960s-1970s) modernist buildings went
The Robert Treat Center is an office and hotel complex in Newark, New Jersey, United States. It is named for Robert Treat, who founded the city in 1666. One building originally opened as the Robert Treat Hotel in 1916. The landmark was later converted to an office building after the construction of a newer hotel next to it.
In the 1950s, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey planned and built the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal in the cities of Newark and Elizabeth. This was the first port in the world to containerize due to the innovation of Malcolm McLean and the founding of the Sea-Land Corporation.
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