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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXLX_changes-in-the-land_Jersey-City-NJ.html
Prior to 1860, the area surrounding you was mostly brackish waters, salt marshes and mudflats of a tidal estuary. Known to the native Lenape as Communipaw Cove, these wetlands were a rich source of fish, waterfowl and shellfish. Early Dutch and En…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXLT_empty-sky-new-jersey_Jersey-City-NJ.html
On the morning ofSeptember 11, 2001, with the skiesso clear that the Twin Towersacross the river appeared to bewithin reach, the very essenceof what our country stands for -freedom, tolerance, and thepursuit of happiness - was attacked.This memori…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXAO_the-historic-trilogy_Jersey-City-NJ.html
The term "Historic Trilogy" is used to represent the role the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CRRNJ) Terminal, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty played in American history. It was these three historic structures that greeted most of the immig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXAL_the-central-railroad-of-new-jersey-crrnj-terminal_Jersey-City-NJ.html
After passing the Statue of Liberty and being processed at Ellis Island, where did the new Americans go?
Once declared "clearly and beyond a doubt, entitled to land" almost two-thirds of the immigrants processed at Ellis Island bought train tic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX9U_the-south-side-of-ellis-island_Jersey-City-NJ.html
An Adventure in Stabilization
Ellis IslandThe 29 buildings on the south side of Ellis Island comprise one of the largest hospitals to be built in the United States during the first decades of this [20th] century. With more than a quarter millio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX9D_the-new-ferry-building-ellis-island_Jersey-City-NJ.html
Restoration of the New Ferry Building on Ellis Island is being supported in part by a Federal Save America's Treasures award administered by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
New Ferry BuildingIn 1999, the Statue of Liberty…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSGD_lincoln-park_Jersey-City-NJ.html
Hudson County's great public work of the 1890's was Hudson (now Kennedy) Boulevard, a 20-mile landscaped roadway running through the county. Construction caused the demolition or relocation of many buildings and was completed in 1895. The road mar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSGA_communipaw-and-lafayette_Jersey-City-NJ.html
Henry Hudson's "Half Moon" anchored off Communipaw in 1609. In 1633 the Dutch West India Company built the first house occupied by "John the Laugher." A small colony of Dutch houses and farms developed along the shore where water extended up to Ph…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSG9_farrier-memorial_Jersey-City-NJ.html
to theVolunteer FiremanofJersey CityErected through thebequest ofCapt. Frederick T. Farrieras a token of the friendshipand esteem in which he heldhis former associates in theVolunteer Fire Department.
Edwin M. Farrier1931 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Executor
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSG4_mystic-lincoln_Jersey-City-NJ.html
Sculptor ? James Earle Frazer
Erected in 1930 by the Lincoln Association of Jersey City with contributions from the school children of Jersey City.
Rededicated February 12, 200575th Anniversary
[ Pedestal Inscription: ]Lincoln MDCCCIX &mi…