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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
NORTH BERGEN, 8.3 miles (25 alt., 40,714 township pop.), has
churches, stores, and two large gas tanks near the highway. The business
section gives no indication of the extent of this residential township, and
little indication of where the village begins or ends.
At 8.5 miles the route crosses the PATERSON PLANK ROAD, now paved.
The original plank road, dating from 1816, was part of the Paterson-Hamburg Turnpike. The Hoboken-Paterson extension, laid in 1816, reduced the traveling time between Paterson and Jersey City from two days
to one.
At 8.7 miles a traffic circle is the junction with State Highway 3 (R)
which 1 mile west joins the Paterson Plank Road.
Entering the outlying northern section of Jersey City, US i follows
Tonnelle Ave. The highway overpasses the main-line tracks of the Penn-
sylvania R.R., just W. of the only trunk-line tunnel from New Jersey into
Manhattan. The gold-striped, streamlined electric locomotives operated
between New York City and Washington use these tracks.
To the southwest is the irregular hump of LAUREL HILL, also called
Snake Hill, lone break in the uniform flatness of the marshlands. Geologists say that it is probably the eroded stump of an ancient volcano that
once cast up enough molten rock to form the Watchung Mts. 10 miles
westward. The buildings of the Hudson County penal and welfare insti-
tutions are grouped on the hill.
The meadowlands have their own skyline. On the banks of the Hackensack River (R) stand the six great chimneys of a Public Service Electric
and Gas Co. plant, and a gas and coke plant. Beyond are small hills of
coke, several times the height of a freight car. The towers of railroad and
highway drawbridges are grouped at the river close by.
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