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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BWF_karr-milburn-house_Newark-NJ.html
Built in 1893, this house served the Karr and Milburn families for more than 90 years. Lucy Karr Milburn (1895-1998), was a lifelong champion of human rights, a high school teacher, and a poet. Before World War I she marched for women's suffrage w…
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This house, built in 1875, was the home of the Rev William Hayes Ward (1835-1916) from 1875 until 1914. A leading neo-abolitionist and Congregationalist clergyman, Ward joined the staff of The Independent (New York, NY), an abolitionist newspaper,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZKC_branch-brook-park_Newark-NJ.html
In October of 1867, the firm of Olmsted & Vaux selected this site for our great park.It took almost 30 years topass the correct legislation,and in 1895, Branch Brook Park was built.We are so grateful to the visionaries whounderstood the need for o…
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Newark PoliceIn memory ofPolice OfficerDewey J. Sherbo IIINovember 9, 19971603 [ Second Marker : ]Dedicated to Newark Police OfficerDewey Joseph Sherbo, IIIwho sacrificed his life serving his communityNovember 9, 1997
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For more than a century this has been one of the finest residential areas in New Jersey. Development began in the 1870s, and continued into the 1920s. The Ballantines, the Clarks and other families who had amassed fortunes in local industry create…
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This is the oldest park in the first county park system established in the United States, and an outstanding example of naturalistic landscape design. The Essex County Park Commission, formed in 1895, acquired the first 60 acres from the City of N…
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This building was constructed in 1874 and enlarged in 1884 by the Belleville Avenue Congregational Church. It was designed in high Victorian Gothic style by William Appleton Potter. Clinton Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church purchase…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUTZ_mount-pleasant-cemetery_Newark-NJ.html
Mount Pleasant, Newark's oldest remaining cemetery, opened in 1844. One of the first secular cemeteries, it is a masterpiece of landscaping. Its 36 rolling acres and varied monuments reflect romantic Victorian attitudes toward death. Many New Jers…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUED_saint-lucys-church_Newark-NJ.html
Founded in 1891, this parish has been built and sustained through the labor, generosity and faith of Italian immigrants and their descendants. St. Lucy's long was the religious and cultural heart of Newark's "Little Italy", the old 1st Ward. This …
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This is the oldest park in the first county park system established in the United States, and an outstanding example of naturalistic landscape design. The Essex County Park Commission, formed in 1895, acquired the first 60 acres from the City of N…
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