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30 unusual facts about Newark, New Jersey


1880 Garret Rock May Day Riot

New Jersey Governor McClellan had readied several companies of the state’s military forces at Newark, New Jersey under General Plume, but the order for the militia was ultimately countermanded.

2006–07 New Jersey Devils season

It was the team's last season in Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey, as construction of the Prudential Center in Newark was completed in time for the Devils to move in for the 2007–08 season.

2007–08 New Jersey Devils season

It was the first season the team had played home games anywhere other than Continental Airlines Arena, as the Devils relocated to the newly built Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

Agboola Shadare

He is now holding concerts across Europe and will return to the United States in March, 2009, to prepare for two album releases and a major concert at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.

André Perchicot

André Perchicot (August 9, 1888 - May 3, 1950) was a French cyclist who won the bronze medal at the 1912 UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's Sprint in Newark, New Jersey and the 1912 French National Track Championships.

Arthur A. Schuck

Schuck was born in Brooklyn in 1895 and became a volunteer Scoutmaster at age 18 in 1913, while working in a Newark, New Jersey factory.

Bahamasair

During the early 1980s, Bahamasair unsuccessfully tried to expand to the Northeast United States, opening flights to Philadelphia, Washington DC (Dulles) and Newark, New Jersey.

Beekman, New York

It is part of the PoughkeepsieNewburghMiddletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New YorkNewarkBridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area.

Biological Didn't Bother

The music video portrays a simplified biography of O'Neal's early days living in Newark, New Jersey.

Bobby Plater

Bobby (Robert C.) Plater (May 13, 1914, Newark, New Jersey - November 20, 1982, Lake Tahoe) was an American jazz alto saxophonist.

Brian Kolodiejchuk

He was ordained to the priesthood in June 1985 in the Ukrainian Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist in Newark, New Jersey, USA, by the late Metropolitan-Archbishop of Winnipeg, Maxim Hermaniuk, C.Ss.R.

Dulcie Cooper

She made the trip and made her eastern debut in Little Spitfire in Newark, New Jersey.

Eddie Gladden

Eddie Gladden (December 6, 1937, Newark, New Jersey – September 30, 2003) was an American jazz drummer.

Elizabeth Ricord

Elizabeth Ricord (born in New Utrecht, Long Island, 2 April 1788; died in Newark, New Jersey, 10 October 1865) was a United States educator.

Franz Umbscheiden

Franz Umbscheiden (1821 Grünstadt, Rhine Province - 13 December 1874 Newark, New Jersey) was a revolutionary during the revolutions of 1848 who emigrated to the United States (one of the Forty-Eighters) and became a journalist.

Frederick Eberhardt

Eberhardt was born in Newark, New Jersey, the eldest son of Swiss-born Ulrich Eberhardt and his American wife, Emeline T Eberhardt.

Holy Piby

The original edition of the Holy Piby was published in the United States, at Newark, New Jersey, in 1924.

Jadwiga Tyszka

Jadwiga Tyszka (Yagoda Tyszka-Krayewski) (born November 25, 1954) was an actress in theater, TV and film in Poland and a community activist in Newark, New Jersey.

John Clifford Heed

It was after the Metronome article was written that Mr. Heed went with John Phillip Sousa's band as a soloist and arranger before contracting tuberculosis in the 1890s and dying in Newark, New Jersey on February 12, 1908.

John Johnson Sayrs

John Johnson Sayrs was born in 1774 in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Caleb Sayrs and his wife Sarah Johnson.

Leo August

In 1933 Leo and his brother Samuel formed the Washington Stamp Exchange on Washington Street in Newark, New Jersey.

Livingston Farrand

Born in Newark, New Jersey, Farrand received an undergraduate degree from Princeton in 1888, and went on to the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons where he earned his M.D. in 1891.

Marcelino Manuel da Graca

He later established branches in Charlotte, North Carolina and Newark, New Jersey Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Bishop Grace traveled America preaching and establishing the United House of Prayer for All People.

Maria Jeritza

In 1948 she married New Jersey businessman Irving Seery and moved to a mansion in the Forest Hill neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, where she lived until her death in 1982, at the age of 94.

National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey

Originally planned to cost $15,000, the total cost ran up to quadruple the original estimate by the time it was completed in the late 1860s in Newark by the American Submarine Company.

Penn Plaza East

The Penn Plaza East complex takes its name for its location near Penn Station in Newark, New Jersey.

Teddy Brannon

Humphrey "Teddy" Brannon (September 27, 1916, Moultrie, Georgia - February 24, 1989, Newark, New Jersey) was an American jazz and blues pianist.

Tomita Tetsunosuke

He studied economics at the Whitney Business College in Newark, New Jersey under William C Whitney (who was subsequently hired by Mori Arinori as a foreign advisor to teach the Double-entry bookkeeping system in Japan).

Wilberforce Eames

Eames was born in Newark, New Jersey to Nelson and Harriet Phoebe Eames (nee Crame).

Woodbury, Orange County, New York

It is part of the PoughkeepsieNewburghMiddletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New YorkNewarkBridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area.


Abram Calvin Wildrick

Abram Calvin Wildrick (August 5, 1836 - November 16, 1894) was a Union brevet brigadier general in the American Civil War, who was the son of former New Jersey U.S. Representative Isaac Wildrick.

Arthur Leslie

Arthur Leslie (Arthur Scottorn Broughton) 8 December 1901 – 30 June 1970 was a British actor who was born in Newark, Nottinghamshire but moved to Lancashire at an early age.

Beer in New Jersey

Presently, the state is home to one large-production brewery, Anheuser-Busch in Newark, which opened in 1951 and is used for brewing Budweiser and Rolling Rock.

Bill Zimmerman

William Frederick Zimmerman (January 20, 1887, Kengen, Germany. - October 4, 1952, Newark, New Jersey) was a professional baseball player.

Bunny Huang Records

Bunny Huang Records, formed in 2002 is an arts collective from Bergen County, New Jersey.

Catboat

Historically, they were used for fishing and transport in the coastal waters around Cape Cod, Narragansett Bay, New York and New Jersey.

Conference of Chief Justices

The first meeting, organized by the Council of State Governments and funded by private foundations, and held in St. Louis, Missouri, was held at the behest of New Jersey Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Nebraska Chief Justice Robert G. Simmons and Missouri Chief Justice Laurance M. Hyde, who was elected as the first chairman by the representatives of the 44 states in attendance.

Dayton, Newark

The stop was built in 2001 to connect NJT's commuter lines and Amtrak's Northeast Corridor services with the AirTrain at Newark Airport.

DeCavalcante crime family

In Newark, New Jersey, there was the Newark family headed by Gaspare D'Amico, the Reina family's Jersey crew controlled by Gaetano "Tom" Reina, the Masseria family's New Jersey faction and the Elizabeth family headed by Stefano Badami.

DeWayne Patmon

After playing his first game for the Giants against the Denver Broncos, Patmon flew with the team to Newark on September 11, 2001, arriving at 6:00 a.m., before the attack on the World Trade Center.

Dodge Spirit

It was assembled at Newark Assembly in Newark, Delaware as well as Toluca Car Assembly in Toluca, Mexico, and shared its basic design with the 1990 to 1994 Chrysler LeBaron sedan, the 1989 to 1995 Plymouth Acclaim, and the export-only 1989 to 1995 Chrysler Saratoga.

Domestic partnership in the United States

Since 1999, the West Coast states of California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada have all passed domestic partnership statutes; in contrast, most legislatures in the New England region and New Jersey have preferred the term civil unions.

Edward L. O'Neill

He served in the United States Navy from 1919–1923, after which he became engaged in the real estate business in Newark.

Frank J. Dodd

The crowded field of 13 Democratic candidates included U.S. Representative James Florio, U.S. Representative Robert A. Roe, Newark Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson, Senate President Joseph P. Merlino, Attorney General John J. Degnan, and Jersey City Mayor Thomas F. X. Smith.

Great Swamp Watershed Association

Their programs serve all who live, work, or play in the Great Swamp watershed in Morris County, New Jersey.

Hodgson Vo-Tech High School

Paul M. Hodgson Vocational-Technical High School is a public school in Newark, Delaware and is among four high schools within the New Castle County Vocational-Technical School District, which includes Delcastle Technical High School in Newport, Howard High School of Technology in Wilmington, and St. Georges Technical High School in St. Georges.

International House, University of Wollongong

During her tenure there were two tragic accidents which had a profound impact on the community: an American student became a paraplegic in a car accident; and three students from New Jersey, USA, were killed in a minibus accident in Gympie, NSW.

John D'Amato

After being promoted Caporegime during the 1980s by Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi, D'Amato became heavily involved in large labor and construction racketeering operations with prominent New Jersey mobsters Giacomo "Jake" Amari and Girolamo "Jimmy" Palermo.

John Hume

In furtherance of his goals, he continues to speak publicly, including a visit to Seton Hall University in New Jersey in 2005, the first Summer University of Democracy of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, 10–14 July 2006), and St Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada 18 July 2007.

Josh A. Moore

Played for legendary coach Bob Hurley at St. Anthony High School in Jersey City, New Jersey for three seasons, where he won a USA Today high school basketball national championship in 1996 and was a two time New Jersey boy's basketball All State selection.

Laurence Oliphant, 3rd Lord Oliphant

He succeeded his grandfather John Oliphant, 2nd Lord Oliphant, in 1516, and was one of the Scottish nobles taken prisoner at the battle of Solway Moss on 25 November 1542, reaching Newark on 15 December, on the way to London.

Maya Keyes

Marcel-Keyes was born in New Jersey and raised in suburban Maryland by Alan Keyes, and wife Jocelyn Marcel-Keyes who is a native of India.

Mountain View Park

Mountain View Park is a large park in Middlesex, Middlesex County, New Jersey, that surrounds Middlesex High School.

New Brunswick Marconi Station

New Brunswick Marconi Station (40.51529° N 74.48895° W) was located at JFK Boulevard and Easton Avenue just a few minutes from the New Brunswick border in Somerset, New Jersey.

New Jersey Route 109

Present-day Route 109 was designated as a part of pre-1927 Route 14 in 1917 before becoming the southernmost portion of Route 4 in 1927.

New Jersey's 13th congressional district

New Jersey's Thirteenth Congressional District is an obsolete congressional district and was created for the 73rd United States Congress in 1933, based on redistricting following the United States Census, 1930.

The two most prominent names running for the seat in the regular election were the former Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly, Albio Sires of West New York, and Assemblyman Joseph Vas, who is also Mayor of Perth Amboy, both of whom ran in the Democratic primary.

New Jersey's 13th congressional district election, 2006

He ran against Albio Sires, who represented the 33rd legislative district in the New Jersey General Assembly.

New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District

For the 108th and successive Congresses (based on redistricting following the 2000 Census), this congressional district contains all or portions of three counties and 52 municipalities in New Jersey.

New York TRACON

The Newark area of the TRACON covers Newark Liberty International Airport along with the majority of the TRACON's satellite airports including Teterboro Airport, Morristown Municipal Airport, and Caldwell/Essex County Airport.

Nina Mitchell Wells

Prior to assuming her cabinet post in January 2006, Wells served as a vice president at Schering-Plough and as an assistant dean at Rutgers School of Law—Newark.

Renee Lane

In 1983, she sought the Democratic nomination for New Jersey General Assembly, but was trounced in the primary by incumbents Mildred Barry Garvin (13,020) and Harry A. McEnroe (12,709); Thomas Addonizio, the son of former Newark Mayor and Congressman Hugh Addonizio finished third with 4,010 votes, while Lane got just 3,360 votes.

Robinson Canó

He spent seventh, eighth, and ninth grades in the Newark school system, attending Barringer High School for one year.

Rodman M. Price

On returning to New Jersey he was elected as a Democrat to the 32nd United States Congress from New Jersey's 5th congressional district and served from March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853, but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress.

Sir Walter

Although there were important races in the state of New Maryland, it was the New York/New Jersey circuit which attracted the best horses from across the United States and the Metropolitan, Brooklyn and Suburban Handicaps were among the top events of the racing season.

Statewide opinion polling for the Republican Party presidential primaries, April 2012

Haley Barbour of Mississippi, Jeb Bush of Florida, Chris Christie of New Jersey, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and John Thune of South Dakota all succeeded in leading polls in their home states at some point in 2011, although only Pawlenty actually launched a campaign.

T. James Tumulty

He graduated from Xavier High School and attended Holy Cross University, graduated from Fordham University in 1935, from Seton Hall University in 1938 and from John Marshall Law School in Jersey City in 1938.

Teenage Love Affair

According to Keys' official website and official fan club, the music video for "Teenage Love Affair", directed by Chris Robinson (with whom she had previously worked with on 2001's "Fallin'" and 2003's "You Don't Know My Name", among others), was filmed at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.

Thomas Baldwin Peddie

The Peddie School in Hightstown and the Peddie Memorial Baptist Church in Newark are named after him.

Trevor Hastie

He returned to United States in 1986 and joined the AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey and remained there for nine years.

UNIFAT

Schools involved Include Eastern High School (New Jersey), Moeller High School, Mount Notre Dame High School, Purcell Marian High School, Sycamore High School (Cincinnati, Ohio), and Madeira High School, Anderson High School, Taylor High School, Wyoming High School, and others from the Greater Cincinnati Area.

William R. Blair

In 1917, the Army established the Signal Corps Radio Laboratories at Camp Vail, in eastern New Jersey.

Wiverton Hall

In June 1643, Queen Henrietta, on her way from Newark, wrote to the King: ‘I shall sleep at Werton Wiverton, and thence to Ashby, where we will resolve what way to take.’ Among other royal visitors were Prince Rupert of the Rhine and his brother Prince Maurice, who after visiting the King in Newark rode to Wiverton with about 400 troops and stayed there until they could settle their future plans.

WJDM

WJDM AM (1530 kHz, "Radio Cantico Nuevo") is a radio station licensed to Elizabeth, New Jersey (the seat of Union County) and the surrounding municipalities and broadcasts a Spanish Christian format.

Yağlıdere

Most immigrants live on the East Coast, including New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware.