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The original West and East New Jersey provinces, highlighted in yellow and green, respectively. The Keith Line is shown in red, and the Coxe and Barclay line is shown in orange. With this sale, New Jersey was divided into East Jersey and West Jersey, two distinct provinces of the proprietary colony. [17]
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]
In 2006, the Supreme Court of New Jersey ordered the state to provide the rights and benefits of marriage to gay and lesbian couples. The following year, New Jersey became the third state in the U.S. (after Connecticut and Vermont) to offer civil unions to same-sex couples. In 2013, the state supreme court ruled that New Jersey must allow same ...
For the purpose of apportionment, they are assigned to their on-record home state. Figures prior to 2000 are from Americans Overseas in U.S. Censuses. [2] Data for 2000 and 2010 is from a 2012 Census assessment report, [3] and 2020 data is from that year's Census. [4]
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.
New Jersey is a state located in the Northeastern United States. According to the 2020 United States Census , New Jersey is the 11th most populous state with 9,288,994 inhabitants but the fifth smallest by land area , spanning 7,354.76 square miles (19,048.7 km 2 ). [ 1 ]
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.
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]