Jersey City

Jersey City is a New Jersey historical marker in Hudson County, dedicated 1935.

Hudson County · dedicated 1935 · Southeast corner of the Holland Tunnel Exit Highway at

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Southeast of the spot the Half Moon anchored Sept. 11-12, 1609. Hereabout lay Horsimus, part of Pavonia, set up Jan. 10, 1630. Washington made this area the keysotone of the campaign, 1776. Hamilton and his friends planned the city Feb. 22, 1804.

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under a mile from where William Gabby lived in the 1760s

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