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Hangout - Assignment New Jersey - A Short History of New Jersey - Colonial Times
Around 1524, Giovanni de Verrazano became the first European to explore New Jersey. He sailed along the coast and anchored off Sandy Hook. The colonial history of New Jersey started after Henry Hudson sailed through Newark Bay in 1609. Although Hudson was British, he worked for the Netherlands, so he claimed the land for the Dutch. It was called New Netherlands. (Meet some of the explorers with Professor Foulkii in the Cartoon History.) ... Small trading colonies sprang up where the present towns of Hoboken and Jersey City are located. The Dutch, Swedes, and Finns were the first European settlers in New Jersey. Bergen, founded in 1660, was New Jersey's first permanent European settlement. ... [Read More]
NAEP -- State Profiles. Educational Assessments by State. Student demographics. School characteristics. State comparisons.
Search | Help | News Flash | NCES Staff | Contact NCES | Site Index ... State Profiles present key data about each state's student and school population and its NAEP testing history and results. The profiles provide easy access to all NAEP data for participating states and links to the most recent state report cards for all available subjects. ... [Read More]
New Jersey - List of Official Partners (Veterans History Project, Library of Congress)
New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Oral History Project at Kean University ... The College of New Jersey ... NEW JERSEY ... [Read More]
NJ Tourism, New Jersey History
The Gateway Region is the proud home of Liberty State Park , which offers easy access to the Statue of Liberty and the nearby Ellis Island. New Jersey's history also includes one of America's greatest inventors, Thomas A. Edison. Visit the Edison National Historic Site in West Orange and see Edison's laboratory and library, exhibits of the first light bulb, phonograph and the dawn of early movie making. In the Shore Region lovers of the sea can tour historic lighthouses and revel in the recreated maritime village at Tuckerton Seaport . For more Revolutionary history Monmouth Battlefield State Park features an annual reenactment of the key Battle of Monmouth. And Allaire Village faithfully displays the trades and treasures of a 19th-century ironworks village. ... [Read More]
New Jersey Department of Education
NJDOE News ... DOE Seeks Applicants for First "Regional Immigrant Newcomer Center" Grant ... [Read More]
Hangout - Assignment New Jersey - A Short History of New Jersey - Delaware Indians
A Short History of New Jersey ... When the first explorers came, the Delaware Indians lived in parts of Delaware, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania. Europeans called them the Delaware Indians. (For more information on the Delaware Indians, visit their official web site .) ... The first people to live on the land now known as New Jersey were the Delaware Indians. They lived here starting at least 10,000 years ago. Anywhere from 8,000 to 20,000 Delaware Indians lived in the area when the first Europeans arrived. Their name means "original people" or "genuine people." They spoke an Algonquian dialect. ... [Read More]
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey - History of the Port Authority
The impetus for the Port Authority's formation can be traced back more than 300 years. First, there was the accident of political history that divided a common port area between what ultimately became the states of New York and New Jersey. In time, the division of the harbor - a vital source of commerce and growth - led to controversy in the region. Throughout the 19th century, New York and New Jersey waged many disputes over their valuable, shared harbor and waterways. A dispute over the boundary line through the harbor and the Hudson River - settled by the Treaty of 1834 - once led state police to exchange shots in the middle of the river. The impasse eased when the two states agreed that the port area was, in effect, one community and that conflict squandered the port's potential. The states sought a governmental body to oversee port affairs and found a model in the Port of London, administered by what was then the only public authority in the world. On April 30, 1921, The Port of ... [Read More]
U.S. Senate
New items in the Virtual Reference Desk . and Statistics & Lists. ... Photographic Exhibits in the Art & History section. ... [Read More]
New Jersey State Police - New Jersey Criminal History Records Checks
New Jersey Administrative Code (N.J.A.C.) 13:59-1 et seq. authorizes the dissemination of New Jersey criminal history record information (CHRI) by the New Jersey State Police (NJSP), Identification & Information Technology Section (R&I), State Bureau of Identification (SBI) for noncriminal justice purposes. The following entities are authorized to obtain from the SBI all records of convictions in the New Jersey state courts and, regardless of their age, all records of pending arrests and charges for violations of New Jersey laws, unless such records have been expunged. ... [Read More]
Earthquake Hazards Program: Earthquake History of New Jersey
On December 18, 1737, a damagingearthquake near New York City wasfelt throughout most of New Jersey.The strong earthquakes off Cape Ann,Massachusetts, in 1755, the New Madrid, Missouri,area in 1811 - 1812, at Riviere-Ouelle,Canada, in 1860, Wilmington, Delaware, in1871, New York City, New York, in 1884,and Charleston, South Carolina, in 1886, allaffected New Jersey. ... Northeastern New Jersey experiencedminor effects from anearthquake on September 3, 1951 that wasapparently centered in RocklandCounty, New York. On March 23, 1957, ashock affectedwest-central New Jersey, near the siteof the 1895 earthquake. Chimneyscracked (intensity VI), windows anddishes broke, and pictures fell atLebanon. A cracked chimney was alsoreported from Hamden. At Long Valleysome walls were cracked and plasterfell. The felt area was small incomparison with the other shockspreviously described. ... [Read More]
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