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Map of Newark 1666-1916 compiled to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the city's founding The landing of the Puritans in 1666, from the Settlers' Monument, Fairmount Cemetery First Landing Party of the Founders of Newark, by Gutzon Borglum, 1916. Newark has long been the largest city in New Jersey.
It was not until 1830 that most blacks were free in the state. New Jersey was the last northern state to abolish slavery completely, and by the close of the Civil War, about a dozen African-Americans in New Jersey were still apprenticed freedmen. The 1860 census found just over 25,000 free African Americans in the state. [24]
The New Jersey Institute of Technology has a history dating back to the 19th century. Originally introduced from Essex County, New Jersey, on March 24, 1880, and revised with input from the Newark Board of Trade in 1881, an act of the New Jersey State Legislature drew up a contest to determine which municipality would become home to the state's urgently needed technical school.
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center, near Military Park, opened in 1997, is the home of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the New Jersey State Opera, the center's programs of national and international music, dance, and theater make it the nation's sixth-largest performing arts center, attracting over 400,000 visitors each year.
At the time of the European colonization, the area of the Lenape, which they called Scheyichbi [1] (see: Unami language), encompassed the valleys of the lower Hudson River and the Delaware River, and the area in between, what is now known as the U.S. state of New Jersey; exonyms given to the different groups by the colonizing population were ...
Camden is located in New Jersey's 1st Congressional District [140] and is part of New Jersey's 5th state legislative district. [141] [142] [143] New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Democrats Cory Booker (Newark, term ends 2027) and Andy Kim (Moorestown, term ends 2031). [144] [145]
Edgewater is a borough located along the Hudson River in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 14,336, [11] [12] an increase of 2,823 (+24.5%) from the 2010 census count of 11,513, [21] [22] which in turn reflected an increase of 3,836 (+50.0%) from the 7,677 counted in the 2000 census [23]
Hackensack map c. 1896. The earliest known inhabitants of the area were the Lenni Lenape, an Algonquian people who became known to settlers as 'the Delaware Indians.' They lived along a river they called Achinigeu-hach, or "Ackingsah-sack", which translates to stony ground—today this river is more commonly known by the name 'the Hackensack River.' [29] A representation of Chief Oratam of the ...