Newark Plank Road

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The Newark Plank Road', like its cousin routes, the Hackensack Plank Road and Paterson Plank Road, was a major artery in Colonial times. Newark Plank Road took traffic between New Jersey's Hudson River waterfront and the burgeoning New Jersey city of Newark, further inland.

The Newark Plank Road followed mainly the route of U.S. Route 1/9 Truck from Jersey City to Newark, with planks across the marshy area of Kearny, New Jersey that is in the triangle where the Passaic River and Hackensack River meet. This area was part of the transcontinental Lincoln Highway, and still retains that name. As the road enters Newark it becomes Raymond Boulevard.

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