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unusual facts about Weehawken



Egyptian Theatre

The Eldorado Theatre located in Eldorado Amusement Park, Weehawken, New Jersey opened in 1891 and featured 'Egypt Through Centuries' each evening.

Harry L. Fisher

Fisher was born on Jan. 19, 1885, in Kingston, New York His father was the engineer, who in 1883, took the first locomotive from Kingston, N. Y., to Weehawken, New Jersey, along the tracks of the old New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railroad.

Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corps

The squad also supports and is supported by its neighbors through informal mutual aid agreements with neighboring Jersey City, Bayonne, Weehawken, and Union City.

Walter Katte

Katte led design and construction of Eads Bridge at St. Louis, Park Avenue Viaduct, and construction of the Weehawken Tunnel in New Jersey, was Chief Engineer of the New York Central Railroad company, founding member of Western Society of Engineers and one of early members and director of the American Society of Civil Engineers.


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