Timeline of Jersey City, New Jersey
The following is a timeline of the history of Jersey City, New Jersey, United States.
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17th century
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19th century
Map of Jersey City, New Jersey, 1848
- 1802 - Population of Paulus Hook: 13.[1]
- 1804
- 1812 - Steam ferry begins operating.[3]
- 1820 - "City of Jersey" incorporated in Bergen Township.[5]
- 1824 - Jersey Glass Company established.
- 1825 - Jersey Porcelain and Earthenware Company incorporated.
- 1833 - American Pottery Manufacturing Company in business.[6]
- 1834
- New Jersey Railroad terminal and Paterson and Hudson River Railroad terminal established.[3]
- Newark-Jersey City horsecar begins operating.[3]
- 1835 - Jersey City Gazette newspaper begins publication.[7]
- 1836 - Morris Canal in operation.[3]
- 1838 - City renamed "Jersey City."
- 1840 - City becomes part of Hudson County.
- 1847
- Jersey City Telegraph newspaper begins publication.[7]
- Dixon Mills and Colgate & Company soap factory built.[8]
- 1850 - Population: 6,856.[1]
- 1851 - Van Vorst Township becomes part of city.[1]
- 1853 - Grace Church Van Vorst built.
- 1856 - Taylor's Hotel in business.[9]
- 1860 - Population: 29,227.[1]
- 1862 - Breusing florists in business.[9]
- 1867
- 1868
- 1869 - Bruckner's Variety Store in business.[9]
1870s-1890s
- 1870
- Hudson City and Bergen City become part of Jersey City.[1]
- St. John's Episcopal Church built.
- Population: 82,546.[1]
- Lorillard Tobacco Company relocates to Jersey City.[4]
- 1872 - Law Library Association founded.[11]
- 1873 - Greenville becomes part of Jersey City.[5]
- 1874
- 1876
- 1887 - Pavonia Terminal opens.
- 1889
- Free Public Library established.[14]
- Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal built.
- 1890 - Population: 163,003.[5]
- 1893
20th century
- 1900
- Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company Warehouse built.
- Population: 206,433.[5]
- 1901
- Little Russian Greek Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul built.[15]
- American Type Founders headquartered in city.
- 1904 - People's Palace established.[5]
- 1905 - West Side Park opens.
- 1906 - Colgate Clock installed.
- 1907 - Block Drug Company established.[6]
- 1908 - Głos Narodu Polish-language newspaper in publication (approximate date).[7]
- 1909 - Hudson Tubes begin operating to Manhattan.
- 1910 - Population: 267,779.[5]
- 1912 - Lincoln High School established.
- 1922 - Hudson Jewish News begins publication.[7]
- 1925 - Journal Square laid out.[3]
- 1927 - Holland Tunnel opens to Lower Manhattan.
- 1929 - New Jersey State Normal School at Jersey City and Loew's Jersey Theatre opens.
- 1930 - Population: 316,715.
- 1937 - Jersey City Giants baseball team formed.
- 1951 - Carpathian Star newspaper begins publication.[7]
- 1974 - Hudson County Community College established.
- 1980
- Novyĭ Amerikanets Russian-language newspaper begins publication.[7]
- Population: 223,532.
- 1986 - Manila Times East newspaper begins publication.[7]
- 1988 - Sister city relationship established with Cusco, Peru.[16]
- 1990 - Population: 228,537.
- 1991 - Govinda Sanskar Kendra Center active (approximate date).[17]
- 1994 - Sister city relationships established with Ahmedabad, India and Nantong, China.[16]
- 1995 - Sister city relationship established with Ozamiz, Philippines.[16]
- 1997
- 1998
- Parts of Ellis Island deemed part of Jersey City per New Jersey v. New York 532 U.S. 767 (1998).
- Sister city relationship established with Oviedo, Spain.[16]
- 1999
- Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy established.[19]
- Sister city relationship established with Sant'Arsenio, Italy.[16]
21st century
- 2000 - Population: 240,055.
- 2001
- Jersey City Museum opens.
- Sister city relationship established with Kolkata, India.[16]
- 2002 - Sister city relationship established with Saint John's, Antigua.[16]
- 2004
- November: Jerramiah T. Healy elected mayor.[20]
- Sister city relationship established with San Martín del Rey Aurelio, Spain.[16]
- 2005 - New Jersey Arya Samaj Mandir Humanitarian Mission headquartered in city.[17][21]
- 2008 - Sister city relationship established with Rosario, Argentina.[16]
- 2010 - Population: 247,597.
- 2011 - Golden Door Film Festival begins.
- 2013 - Steven Fulop becomes mayor.[22]
See also
- History of Jersey City, New Jersey
- Bergen Township, New Jersey (1661–1862)
- Timeline of Jersey City, New Jersey-area railroads
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Hudson County, New Jersey
- List of mayors of Jersey City
- Timeline of Newark, New Jersey
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 George Ripley; Charles A. Dana, eds. (1879). "Jersey City". The American Cyclopaedia (2nd ed.). New York: D. Appleton and Company.
- ↑ Thomas Francis Gordon (1834), "Jersey City", Gazetteer of the State of New Jersey, Trenton: Daniel Fenton, OCLC 4366560
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Federal Writers' Project (1946). "Jersey City". New Jersey: a Guide to its Present and Past. American Guide Series. NY: Hastings House.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Patrick Shalhoub; Carmela A. Karnoutsos, eds. (2003). "Jersey City Past and Present". New Jersey City University. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 "Jersey City", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Maxine N. Lurie; Marc Mappen, eds. (2004). Encyclopedia of New Jersey. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0813536510.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 George H. Farrier, ed. (1879), Memorial of the centennial celebration of the Battle of Paulus Hook, August 19, 1879; with a history of the early settlement and present condition of Jersey City, N.J., Jersey City, OCLC 1742471
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 "Jersey City". Quarter-Century's Progress of New Jersey's Leading Manufacturing Centres. NY: International Publishing Company. 1887.
- ↑ William H. Richardson (1919), The "makings" of the Lincoln Association of Jersey City, Jersey City: Jersey City Printing Co., OCLC 10592674
- ↑ Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
- ↑ Echoes of the Aesthetic Society of Jersey City, New York: Thompson and Moreau, 1882
- ↑ Programme for celebrating the centennial anniversary of American independence on the third and fourth of July, 1876. W.R. Mason & Co. 1876.
- ↑ Annual Report of the Free Public Library of Jersey City, NJ 1, 1892
- ↑ Arthur Fremont Rider (1916), "Jersey City", Rider's New York City and Vicinity, including Newark, Yonkers and Jersey City, New York: H. Holt and Company
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 16.6 16.7 16.8 16.9 "Sister Cities". Destination Jersey City. Jersey City Economic Development Corporation. Retrieved December 2014.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Pluralism Project. "Jersey City, New Jersey". Directory of Religious Centers. Harvard University. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
- ↑ "Mayor of Jersey City". City of Jersey City. Archived from the original on January 12, 1998.
- ↑ "About JC Landmarks". Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
- ↑ "Biography of the Mayor". City of Jersey City. Archived from the original on December 5, 2007.
- ↑ "New Jersey Arya Samaj Mandir, Inc.". Retrieved August 4, 2013.
- ↑ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- Isaac Costa, ed. (1866). Gopsill's Jersey City and Hoboken Directory. James Gopsill.
- "Jersey City", Goulding's Business Directory of New York, Brooklyn, Newark, Paterson, Jersey City, and Hoboken, Lawrence G. Gulding, 1875
- Richard Edwards (1882), "Jersey City", Industries of New Jersey, 6: Hudson, Passaic and Bergen Counties, New York: Historical Publishing Company, OCLC 21190682
- William H. Shaw (1884), "Jersey City (etc.)", History of Essex and Hudson Counties, New Jersey, Philadelphia: Everts & Peck
- F. Killenberger (1887), "Jersey City", F. Killenberger's Pocket Gazetteer of the State of New Jersey, New Brunswick: New Jersey Pub. Co.
- Jersey City Street Railway Guide, Jersey City: Stephen & Hansen, printers, 1890
- Charles Winfield (1891). Monograph on the Founding of Jersey City. New York: Caxton Press.
- Herbert Foster Gunnison (1896), "Jersey City", Visitor's Guide to the Greater New York, Jersey City and Suburbs, Brooklyn, N.Y.: Eagle Press
- Harriet Phillips Eaton (1899), Jersey City and its Historic Sites, Jersey City: The Woman's Club
- Published in the 20th century
- Walter Gregory Muirheid (1910), Jersey City of To-Day: its history, people, trades, commerce, institutions & industries
- "Jersey City, Hudson County". Industrial Directory of New Jersey. Paterson NJ. 1918.
- Board of City Commissioners of Jersey City (1920). Jersey City Development Plan.
- Kevin Lynch (1960), "Three Cities: Jersey City", Image of the City, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, p. 25+, OL 5795447M
- Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Jersey City", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
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- Patrick Shalhoub; Carmela A. Karnoutsos, eds. (2003). "Chronology". Jersey City Past and Present. New Jersey City University.
- New York Public Library. Images related to Jersey City, various dates
- Library of Congress, Prints & Photos division. Items related to Jersey City, N.J., various dates.
Coordinates: 40°42′41″N 74°03′53″W / 40.711417°N 74.06476°W