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Elizabeth (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 40 39 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 40.6500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 074 12 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -74.2000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located on Newark Bay and connected by Goethals Bridge to Staten Island, New York; state assembly met here 1668-1682; site of several engagements in Revolutionary War; first seat of Princeton University (1746); was home of Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr. |
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| Elizabeth (preferred,C,V)
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| Elizabethtown (H,V)
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............ | named for wife of one of colony's 1st proprietors, Sir George Carteret |
| Elizabeth Towne (H,V)
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Union (county) (P) |
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Elizabeth (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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English purchased site from Amerindians & settled there in 1664, incorporated 1855 |
| city (C) |
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| county seat (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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for foundries, steelworks, shipbuilding yards, automobiles, printing presses, chemicals & oil refineries |
| manufacturing center (C) |
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for machinery, beds, clothing, textiles, Singer sewing machines & chemicals |
| shipping center (C) |
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for transshipping coal & iron, city grew in conjunction with Port of Staten Island & arrival of railroads |
| port (C) |
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especially for containerized shipping |
| suburb (C) |
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providing residences for New York City |
| capital (H) |
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of state until 1686 |
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