New Barbadoes Neck
- Identifier
- NJS-PLC-00354
- Place Type
- Region
- Description
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New Barbadoes Neck was a name used in the colonial era for the peninsula formed by the Hackensack and Passaic Rivers in northeastern New Jersey. The southernmost tip of the peninsula, where the rivers meet, is now Kearny Point, Hudson County, and the peninsula stretches north into Bergen County. The name New Barbadoes Neck came into use in the late 17th century when several wealthy English planters from the Caribbean island of Barbados relocated to the area.
For more information about this area and the name New Barbadoes, see the related record for New Barbadoes township, which existed in Bergen County from 1710 to 1921. That township splintered into many smaller municipalities, and its town center was officially renamed Hackensack City in 1921, thus erasing the name New Barbadoes from New Jersey maps in the early 20th century. - State or Province
- New Jersey
- Country
- United States of America
- Region
- New Barbadoes Neck
- Latitude
- 40.72091238857799
- Longitude
- -74.11480397481373
- References
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John P. Snyder, The Story of New Jersey’s Civil Boundaries, 1606–1968 (Trenton, Bureau of Geology and Topography, 1969; New Jersey Geological Survey, 2004), https://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/bulletin67.pdf. See pages 8, 54.
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
- Resource class
- Location