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New Jersey was the only British colony to permit the establishment of two colleges in the colonial period. Princeton University, chartered in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, chartered on November 10, 1766, as Queen's College, were two of nine colleges founded before the American Revolution.
Ramsey is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.It is a suburb of New York City, located 26 miles (42 km) northwest of Midtown Manhattan.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 14,798, [10] [11] an increase of 325 (+2.2%) from the 2010 census count of 14,473, [20] [21] which in turn reflected an increase of 122 (+0.9%) from the 14,351 counted in ...
Diamond reports from GIA (as well as other, for-profit sources) are now demanded by most consumers purchasing diamonds over a certain size, typically for over 0.5 carat (100 mg), and almost always for over 1.0 carat (200 mg), and are considered an important tool in guaranteeing that a diamond is accurately represented to a potential buyer.
Eastwick (SEPTA station), a railway station on the Airport Line to Philadelphia International Airport "Eastwick", a slang name for Elizabeth, New Jersey; Eastwick, Hertfordshire, a village and civil parish in England; Eastwick, London, a new town to be built on the site of Olympic Park, east of Hackney Wick
Captain William Joseph Eastwick (1808 – 24 February 1889) was a British military officer and director of the East India Company. The eldest son of Captain Robert William Eastwick of the Bombay Marine , he was educated at Winchester College , where he was a contemporary of Lord Selborne and Lord Sherbrooke . [ 1 ]
West Portal is an unincorporated community located within Bethlehem Township, in Hunterdon County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [1] [2] [3] The community is centered at the intersection of Route 173 and County Route 643, approximately 5.1 miles (8.2 km) southwest of Hampton. [4] The namesake West Portal of the Pattenburg Tunnel
Because the first discovery sites were in the village of Middleville and in the city of Little Falls, respectively, the crystal is also known as a Middleville diamond or a Little Falls diamond. [ 3 ] Herkimer diamonds became widely recognized after workmen discovered them in large quantities while cutting into the Mohawk River Valley dolomite ...
The Portal Bridge is a two-track rotating swing-span railroad bridge over the Hackensack River in Kearny and Secaucus, New Jersey, United States. It is on the Northeast Corridor just west of Secaucus Junction and east of the Sawtooth Bridges .