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Dover is located in the 11th Congressional District [63] and is part of New Jersey's 25th state legislative district. [ 64 ] [ 65 ] [ 66 ] Prior to the 2010 Census, Dover had been part of the 11th Congressional District , a change made by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission that took effect in January 2013, based on the results of the ...
The town of Dover was incorporated in 1869 and George Richards was elected its first mayor. [4] That same year, he built a large commercial building on Blackwell Street. [5] It was a J. J. Newberry store in the 1940s. [6] The red brick Dover station was built in 1901 by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. [7]
The New Jersey Chili and Salsa Cook-Off, as well as the New Jersey Ice Cream Festival are held in Toms River. [194] The Toms River Branch of Ocean County Library is the headquarters of the Ocean County Library system and the largest public library in Ocean County. In January 2006, a renovation project was completed that doubled the size of the ...
Mine Hill Township is located in the 7th Congressional District [44] and is part of New Jersey's 25th state legislative district. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] [ 47 ] Prior to the 2010 Census, Mine Hill Township had been part of the 11th Congressional District , a change made by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission that took effect in January 2013, based on ...
Dover Dates, 1722-1922: A Bicentennial History of Dover, New Jersey , Published in Connection with Dover's Two Hundredth Anniversary Celebration Under the Direction of the Dover Fire Department, August 9, 10, 11, 1922. Dover, New Jersey: Charles Davis Platt; Poor, Henry Varnum (1884). Poor's Manual of Railroads.
The Rockaway River rises in the Oak Ridge neighborhood of Jefferson Township.It flows SSW, in a direct course between in the valley between the mountain ridges. Northeast of Wharton it emerges from the mountains and flows generally east in a meandering course, past Wharton, Dover (where it enters a concrete channel), Rockaway, Denville and Boonton, where it passes through the Boonton Gorge.
Route 10 westbound at the Interstate 287 interchange in Hanover Township. Route 10 roughly follows a portion of an old Lenape Trail from the Passaic River to Whippany. [3] The Newark and Mount Pleasant Turnpike was established along the present-day alignment of Route 10 east of Dover on March 12, 1806, existing as a turnpike until before 1833.
New Jersey was governed by two groups of proprietors as two distinct provinces, East Jersey and West Jersey, between 1674 and 1702.New Jersey's first counties were created as administrative districts within each province, with East Jersey split in 1675 into Bergen, Essex, Middlesex and Monmouth counties, while West Jersey's initial counties of Burlington and Salem date to 1681.