Jersey City (originally Pavonia)
- Identifier
- NJS-PLC-00304
- Place Type
- City, Town, or Village
- Alternate Name
- Pavonia
- Description
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Jersey City is the seat of Hudson County. It is located across the Hudson River from the tip of Manhattan Island. Today, it is the second most populous city in New Jersey, after Newark.
Modern Jersey City encompasses the area where the first European settlements were formed on the west bank of the Hudson River during the Dutch colonial period. The first Dutch settlement in the area was known as Pavonia. The history of slavery in New Jersey begins at Pavonia, where a group of enslaved Africans worked on a plantation by the 1630s.
In 1661, three years before the English took over the colony from the Dutch, a large township called Bergen was formed on the west bank of the Hudson River, which included the former site of Pavonia. The area of modern Jersey City was known as Bergen Township for over 150 years, and it was part of Bergen County.
In the 19th century, Bergen Township broke up into Jersey City, Bayonne, North Bergen, and several other small municipalities along the Hudson River. Jersey City was incorporated in 1820 from a portion of Bergen Township. It was at that time usually called "the City of Jersey," and the area was still part of Bergen County. Then, in 1840, Jersey City and the surrounding area split off from Bergen County to form Hudson County. - Locality
- Jersey City
- County (Modern)
- Hudson County
- County (Historical)
- Bergen County
- State or Province
- New Jersey
- Country
- United States of America
- Latitude
- 40.715318
- Longitude
- -74.037694
- References
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Pavonia, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavonia,%5fNew%5fNetherland.
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
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