Old Bergen History And Reminiscences With Maps And Illustrations
Old Bergen History And Reminiscences With Maps And Illustrations
Daniel Van Winkle
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Its inhabitants looked serenely down on Jersey City's accumulating factory chimneys and saw its increasing bustle and wealth without apparent desire to emulate it. Years after gas had made the streets below their height look like far-trailed strings of beads, they remained content with candles and sperm whale oil, and as late as 1858 there were only 60 gas consumers on the whole ridge. Bit by bit its less restful constituent parts broke away, much as the offspring of the good old burghers thems...elves was breaking away from the good old customs. In 1837, Bergen County's opulent girth was sharply reduced by taking away enough to make Passaic County. In 1 840 another legal opera- tion set off'the County of Hudson. Bergen Township was like a fine Dutch cheese exposed to busy mice. It was nibbled at from all sides. In 1841, two years after fiill rail traffic had been opened between New York and Philadelphia by the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company, Van Vorst Township was nibbled oflF.
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