Latest breaking news, including politics, crime and celebrity. Find stories, updates and expert opinion. Playlist files: DJ EGG's ECLECTIC MEGGAMUSIC PLAYLIST (In No Particular Order Of Preference) Approx. Eclectic Selection, Post-Rock, Lo-Fi, SynthPop, DreamPop, Trip-Hop, Chillout, Lounge, Eclectic Selection ---. Title: Bismarck Tribune. Collection Number: 00080. Abstract: Images used in the Bismarck Tribune newspapers from the 1930s-1970s. Provenance: The collection was donated to the. Chronology - Liberty Historic Railway, Inc. Transportation Milestones Around the CRR of NJ Jersey City Terminal (now Liberty State Park) and the NJ / NY Port Area. Capt. Bill Mc. Kelvey, Editor. Introduction: Included are milestones, events, and things of mostly transportation importance within the entire NJ / NY Port area. The Chronology is primarily devoted to transportation, but some other related and relevant items, important to the overall context have been posted as well. Lawrence River by the portion of the ice sheet which still covered the Thousand Islands area. B. C. E. Geologists, Oceanographers and Paleontologists concur that about this time Glacial Lake Iroquois broke through a dam and flooded east through. Mohawk River Valley, down the Hudson River Valley past NYC, through a spot of land where the Verrazano Narrows Bridge now stands, and into the Atlantic Ocean. Civilization began - the first cities were established. The Leni Lenape (which means “original people”) were hunting and raising crops, such as corn, beans and squash, in the area which. New Jersey. 6,0. 00 B. C. E. Geologists believe that at this time the lower Raritan River provided the course for the mouth of the Hudson River. Christopher Columbus, most famous of the explorers of the Western Hemisphere, was born at Genoa, Italy but made his discoveries sailing for Spanish. John Smith and 1. Virginia coast and started the first permanent English settlement in the New. World at Jamestown. Henry Hudson, seeking an alternative route to East Asia, sailed into the mouth of what became known as the Delaware River and anchored for the. New Netherland was conditionally ceded to the English in 1. New York the following year. On 3. 1 January 2. NY, but 2. 2 acres became a National Park. Pauw received the first Dutch West India Co. Lee from Fort Hamilton proposed rebuilding the Staten Island works, which was done in 1. It controlled Forts Morton, Hudson, and Richmond and was later included as part of Fort Wadsworth which was established in 1. Berkeley and Carteret sold off portions of their interest to different individuals, who established the separate but related. East Jersey and West Jersey. The Old York Road was completed and opened across New Jersey from Elizabethtown Point to Coryell’s Ferry (Lambertville). The population of New Jersey grew to 6. The. first steam engine in America was imported from England to pump water from Col. John Schuyler’s copper mine in North Arlington, which had to be shut down in 1. Staten Island had been abandoned by the Americans without resistance, thus surrendering the strong position of the Narrows. According to tradition, she was carrying considerable specie for paying troops. During the Revolutionary War, Major Henry (Lighthouse) Lee attacked the British fort at Paulus Hook, Jersey City, and captured 1. British troops. 1. There was a great freeze in the Revolutionary War winter of 1. British were occupying NY. Stevens, created America’s first commercially successful railroad - the Camden & Amboy. Stevens died in 1. John Stevens, Robert R. Livingston and others participated in the construction of a small steamboat, the Polacca, on the Passaic. River at Belleville and it made a trip to NYC the next year. The Associates of the New York & Elizabethport Ferry Co. Robert Richard Randall. In 1. 83. 1 the trustees sold the Manhattan estate, and with the proceeds purchased property in northern Staten Island, two miles west of St. George, overlooking Kill Van Kull and the Constable Hook section of Bayonne. The Bergen Turnpike Co. John Stevens, built the Phenix, a paddle wheel vessel for the Hoboken to New Brunswick run. John Stevens penned his vital pamphlet: Documents Tending to Prove the Superior Advantages of Railway and Steam Carriages over Canal Navigation. John Stevens between Trenton and Raritan Bay. To satisfy the Fulton- Livingston monopoly, Col. Stevens replaced his steamboat on the Hoboken ferry with a horse powered ferry. It had a paddlewheel in its center, powered by eight horses. Bunker of Nantucket took his 1. Fulton through Hell Gate, being the first steam vessel ever to attempt it. Bunker took his new, strongly built passenger steamer, the 1. Connecticut, through Hell Gate against the full force. On 4 February, a steam ferry that had been running for two years was wedged in a field of ice between Peck Slip, Manhattan, and the NY Steamboat Wharf. Scarborough & Isaacs, a wealthy shipping firm from Savannah, GA was persuaded to buy the ship and convert it to a hybrid ship with the addition of a boiler, steam engine and sidewheels and gain the prestige of inaugurating the world’s first transatlantic steamship service. Macculloch, while fishing at Lake Hopatcong, got the idea of using the lake as a water supply for a canal across northern New Jersey from New York Bay to Phillipsburg. Ogden) thus opening steamboat services to competition except in the case of railroad owned ferry services. John Stevens of Hoboken obtained a patent for his method of constructing a railroad. The Morris Canal and Banking Co. The D& H was to become an important supplier of anthracite coal to NYC. Two shipbuilders, Henry Steers and John Thomas, came to New York and built at the foot of Tenth Street, on the East River, the first ship- railway ever seen in the US. John Stevens made the first known American application of steam locomotion to railway track on a circular track at his Hoboken estate with his . Steamboat Days by Fred Erving Dayton. Abraham Brower began operating a horse- drawn omnibus - a multi- seated non rail vehicle on NYC’s Broadway, with great success, which was. While en- route from Hartford to NY the boiler of the steamboat Oliver Ellsworth; exploded and three were scalded. In this year, James Bard, born in New York in the year of Waterloo, made his first steamboat painting, of the Bellona, the first steamer ever owned by Commodore Vanderbilt. August 1. 96. 11. By late November, the first ten boats traveled the length of the newly completed Delaware & Hudson Canal with ten tons of coal each. Five days later, ten tons of this anthracite coal reached NYC via the sloop Toleration. King, built by the New York Dock Co. After arrival from England the last two locomotives were sent from NYC to Rondout, NY (the Hudson River terminus of the D& H Canal) and were apparently put in storage. Gravity Railroad track, ready for its trial run on 8 August. The Stourbridge Lion was one of the first locomotives to be run in a country other than England and became the first to move on a commercial track in America. Stevens designed the forerunner of modern . Durant became the first native- born American to fly. Immigration to the US from Europe began on a large scale after this year. Its brownstone Little Falls aqueduct was at the time the highest (at 5. United States. The first Morris Canal boats which were loaded with Lehigh coal at Mauch Chunk arrived in NJ. The first railroad car in New Jersey was built for the Camden & Amboy RR by M. P. Green of Hoboken. One of Colonel James Reeside's . Within a few years it connected Jersey City with Newark and New Brunswick. On 2. 6 November the very first street car in the US appeared in Manhattan, on the NY and Harlem RR. Affiliated with the Episcopal Church, it serves mariners through education, pastoral care, and legal advocacy. Headquartered in NYC, the institute operates a Seafarers’ Center in Port Newark, Hospitality Centers in Manhattan and Brooklyn Passenger Ship Terminal, and maritime educational facilities in Paducah, KY and Houston, TX. Today it is an historic pedestrian walkway in Lower Manhattan, in the heart of the Financial District. On 2 January the 3. American bark Mexico with 1. England and Ireland - and a crew of 1. Sandy Hook after a stormy 6. Mexico came ashore at Point Lookout, Hempstead Beach and soon broke up. It is now used by Port Authority Trans Hudson (PATH) rapid transit trains through Journal Square, Jersey City and Conrail Shared Assets. First to cross the Atlantic under steam power only, the British ship Sirius reached NY City in 1. The US Congress officially designated all railroads as official postal routes on 7 July. The first US patent for a railway brake was issued to E. Morris of Bloomfield, NJ. The NY Harbor Pilot boat Franklin was driven ashore in a gale in this year and all aboard perished. The strengthened covered wood bridge at Trenton provided the link to Pennsylvania. The Elizabethport & New York Ferry Co. Stockton was built in England for the Delaware and Raritan Canal Co. She was renamed the New Jersey and worked for the canal company for 3. Philip Hone, erstwhile mayor of NYC and celebrated diarist, committed the following lines to his journal on May 3. Among the maritime exploits with which these adventurous times abound, the arrival, on Wednesday last, of a little schooner, called the Robert F. Stockton, from England, was one of the most remarkable. Stockton was the first iron- hull vessel to cross the Atlantic and the first commercially successful vessel utilizing the screw propeller. Stockton and the Introduction of Screw Propulsion, by Alexander Crosby Brown, in Steamboat Bill of Facts, Journal of the. Steamship Historical Society of America, No. December, 1. 95. 1. On 4 July the ferryboat Samson was wrecked between NYC and Staten Island with 2 killed. John Ericcson (1. Swedish designer / inventor of the screw propellor who Robert Stockton engaged to apply to the small tugboat he had built at Birkenhead, England for the D& R Canal Co. Stockton and came to New York in November, 1. Briggs, 3. 4 Old Slip, New York, and Armer Patton, 4. South Wharves, Philadelphia. Webb inherited his fathers shipyard (Webb & Allen, established 1. East River between 5th & 7th. Streets. Schuyler, a Jersey City shipbuilder, worked on the construction of a luxurious, armed, anthracite coal fired, frigate for the Russian. Czar. 1. 84. 2 Iron Steamboats: The D& R Canal Co.
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