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Paulus Hook is a community on the Hudson River waterfront in Jersey City, New Jersey. It is located one mile (1.5 kilometres) across the river from Manhattan . The name Hook comes from the Dutch word "hoeck", which translates to "point of land."
Team boats served New York City for "about ten years, from 1814-1824. They were of eight horse-power and crossed the rivers in from twelve to twenty minutes." [10]In 1812, two steam boats designed by Robert Fulton were placed in use in New York, for the Paulus Hook Ferry from the foot of Cortlandt Street, and on the Hoboken Ferry from the foot of Barclay Street.
Map from 1847 showing the Jersey City Ferry's route as well as several Hoboken ferry services. While the Communipaw ferry dated back to 1661 during the Dutch colonial period in New Amsterdam, [2] the Jersey City ferry, then called the Paulus Hook ferry, began in July 1764 [3] and operated from Paulus Hook to Mesier's dock at the foot of Courtland Street (where Cortland Street Ferry Depot would ...
The Jersey City and Bergen Point Plank Road was a road originally built in the 19th century in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States which ran between Paulus Hook and Bergen Point. The company that built the road received a charter on March 6, 1850 [1] [2] [3] to improve one that had been built in the 18th century.
The Hudson Waterfront is an urban area of northeastern New Jersey along the lower reaches of the Hudson River, the Upper New York Bay and the Kill van Kull.Though the term can specifically mean the shoreline, it is often used to mean the contiguous urban area between the Bayonne Bridge and the George Washington Bridge that is approximately 19 miles (31 km) long. [1]
Historic Districts in Hudson County, New Jersey; List of neighborhoods of Hudson County, New Jersey; Neighboring towns in Hudson County: Bayonne; North Hudson. North Bergen; Weehawken; Hoboken; Union City; West New York; Guttenberg; Secaucus; West Hudson
Map of Jersey City, New Jersey, 1848. 1802 - Population of Paulus Hook: 13. [1] 1804 Land bought from Cornelius Van Vorst by the Associates of the Jersey Company. [2] Streets of the Hook laid out. [1] [3] [4] 1812 - Steam ferry begins operating. [3] 1820 - "City of Jersey" incorporated in Bergen Township. [5] 1824 - Jersey Glass Company ...
The Newark Plank Road was a major artery between Hudson Waterfront at Paulus Hook (in today's Jersey City) and city of Newark further inland across the New Jersey Meadows.As its name suggests, a plank road was constructed of wooden planks laid side-to-side on a roadbed.