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The town was not named for Queen Elizabeth I as many people may assume, but rather for Elizabeth, wife of Sir George Carteret, [28] one of the two original Proprietors of the colony of New Jersey. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] [ 31 ] She was the daughter of Philippe de Carteret II, 3rd Seigneur de Sark and Anne Dowse.
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New Jersey's county names derive from several sources, though most of its counties are named after place names in England and prominent leaders in the colonial and revolutionary periods. Bergen County is the most populous county—as of the 2010 Census—with 905,116 people, while Salem County is the least populous with 66,083 people.
Interactive map of municipalities in New Jersey. New Jersey is a state located in the Northeastern United States . According to the 2020 United States Census , New Jersey is the 11th most populous state with 9,288,994 inhabitants but the fifth smallest by land area , spanning 7,354.76 square miles (19,048.7 km 2 ). [ 1 ]
Dowd Avenue is a major thoroughfare in Elizabeth, New Jersey which serves the residential district. The street is 1.05 miles (1.69 km) long, beginning at an intersection with Trumbull Street in Elizabeth, continuing on a west–east alignment to New Jersey Route 81.
Elizabeth is a New Jersey Transit station in Midtown in Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey, 15.4 miles (24.8 km) southwest of New York Penn Station on the Northeast Corridor. It is between Broad Street and West Grand Street on an embankment and viaduct. This station is often called Broad Street Elizabeth to distinguish it from North Elizabeth ...
The Mid-Town Historic District is a 55-acre (22 ha) historic district in the central business district of Elizabeth, in Union County, New Jersey.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 5, 1995, for its significance in architecture, art, commerce, community planning, politics, religion, and transportation. [1]
Route 27 is a state highway in New Jersey, United States. It runs 38.5 mi (61.96 km) from US 206 in Princeton , Mercer County , northeast to an interchange with McCarter Highway ( Route 21 ) and Broad Street in Newark , Essex County .