Jersey City

Jersey City is a New Jersey historical marker in 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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1835 · Map of the Country Twenty Five Miles Round The City Of New-York. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1860 · New York City and Environs. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1873 · New York City. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1881 · Guide Map To Summer Resorts Around New York (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1918 · Heart of New York. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Guide Map To Summer Resorts Around New York, 1881, covering the location of Jersey City, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Guide Map To Summer Resorts Around New York, 1881, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Marker data: New Jersey Historical Commission

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