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Jersey City (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 40 43 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 40.7167 decimal degrees |
| Long: 074 04 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -74.0667 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located in NE New Jersey on Upper New York Bay and Hudson River across from New York City; "Light-Horse Harry" Lee defeated British here in American Revolutionary War; important station on Underground Railroad; site of Black Tom explosion 1916. |
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| Jersey City (preferred,C,V)
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............ | chartered under this name in 1836 |
| City of Jersey (H,V)
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............ | chartered under this name 1820-1836 |
| Jersey (H,V)
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| Paulus Hook (H,V)
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............ | first settled by Dutch trappers in 1618 |
| Hudson (C,V)
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| Powles Hook (C,V)
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Hudson (county) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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was visited by Henry Hudson 1609, purchased from Amerindians ca. 1630 & settled by 1650, British-Dutch conflicts 1664-1674 |
| city (C) |
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incorporated 1820 |
| county seat (C) |
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| port (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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for locomotives & chemicals |
| manufacturing center (C) |
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for paper products, electrical equipment, petroleum products, cosmetics, soap, toys & clothing |
| transportation center (C) |
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for rail, for old Morris Canal (1830s) & for connection to New York City via Hudson & Manhattan tubes (tunnels) |
| educational center (C) |
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for St. Peter's College (1872), Jersey City College & for New Jersey Dental School |
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