Curries Woods

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Coordinates: 40°41′21″N 74°05′44″W / 40.68903°N 74.09557°W / 40.68903; -74.09557
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Curries Woods is a neighborhood in the southern part of

Jersey City, New Jersey bordering Bayonne. It was named after James Curie, who was on the town Committee for Greenville when it was its own Township in the 19th century. The area remained rural until the later part of the century when the Central Railroad of New Jersey built a line connecting ferries to Elizabeth, New Jersey and New York City. Currie's Woods still remained untouched through the late part of the century and it was valued for its woods, rocky shore and dunes on Newark Bay. A lot of the land was eventually lost, but a tract was set aside in the early part of the 20th century. A small cemetery, the Old Greenville Cemetery, was nearby.[1] This park lost much of its land to the city's largest Housing Authority project in 1959, except a small tract in Bayonne, Mercer Park.[2][3]

Pamrapo

An 1837 map of the peninsula between the Upper New York Bay and the Newark Bay in Hudson County. The map is oriented with North pointing to the right. Pamrepaw is located in the center of the peninsula, between Centreville and Bergen Spire.
Pamrapo Avenue near the city line

The area overlapping the city line was earlier called Pamrapo. The name is a derivation of a phrase from the

Hudson Palisades, found there. Spellings included Pimbrepow, Pembrepock, Pemmerepoch,[9] Pimlipo, Pemrepau,[10] Pemrapaugh, Pamrapough,[11] Pamrepaw[12] and Pamropo.[13][14]
Two streets, one in
Hudson Bergen Light Rail

City line

While the original

cut through a natural break in the rock formation, and then travelled northwest to join the Hackensack River, a filled portion still seen in Country Village.[19][20][21][22][23]

Transportation

See also:
Danforth Avenue (HBLR station) § Intersections

Merritt Street,a 0.14 miles (0.23 km) section of which part is designated

Bus 6.[25]

See also

Odonyms in Hudson County, New Jersey

References

  1. ^ http://files.usgwarchives.net/nj/hudson/cemeteries/oldgreenville.txt Archived May 31, 2012, at the Wayback Machine [bare URL plain text file]
  2. ^ Curries Woods Archived 2009-01-10 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ JC Housding Authority
  4. ^ "Woodlands Indians forums". Archived from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved September 13, 2009.
  5. ^ "Pamrapo". Archived from the original on August 11, 2009. Retrieved August 21, 2009.
  6. ^ Timeline for the Founding and History of the City of Bayonne Archived September 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Bayonne Historical Society. Retrieved August 14, 2009.
  7. ^ "GREAT RAILROADS AT WAR Fighting to Secure Lands on Jersey Shore" (PDF). New York Times. December 15, 1889. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 18, 2022. Retrieved November 16, 2010.
  8. ^ "The Point Of Rocks Line; More About The Little Railroad. Denying That The Work Is To Be Done In The Interest Of The Pennsylvania Road--Plans Of The National Storage Company" (PDF). The New York Times. September 8, 1879. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 22, 2020. Retrieved June 14, 2018.
  9. ^ "RootsWeb: Dutch-Colonies-L [D-Col] Re: Vrouwtie and Gerrtie Gerrits". Archived from the original on March 18, 2012. Retrieved August 21, 2009.
  10. ^ Seven Settled Towns Archived March 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ USA archives Bergen deeds Archived 2009-10-20 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ United States Coast Guard Survey: New York Bay and Harbor and Environs, Washington, D.C., 1844-45
  13. ^ Currier and Ives, 1872
  14. ^ Gordon, Thomas Francis (1834). "A Gazetteer of the State of New Jersey: Comprehending a General View of Its Physical and Moral Condition, Together with a Topographical and Statistical Account of Its Counties, Towns, Villages, Canals, Rail Roads, &c., Accompanied by a Map".
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  16. ^ History of new Netherland, E.B. Callaghan (c)1855
  17. ^ "Pamrapo Bank". Archived from the original on August 28, 2009. Retrieved August 14, 2009.
  18. ^ Timeline for the Founding and History of the City of Bayonne Archived September 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  19. ISBN 978-0-88097-763-0
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  20. ^ "JC Online:Morris Canal". Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved March 16, 2010.
  21. ^ Old Bergen Road
  22. ^ "Wikimapia:Newark Bay at Jersey City". Archived from the original on January 29, 2015. Retrieved March 16, 2010.
  23. ^ http://www.owners.com/NJ/Bayonne/ Archived 2010-04-16 at the Wayback Machine Map of Bayonne
  24. ^ "Hudson County 707 straight line diagram" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Transportation. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 17, 2012. Retrieved August 20, 2009.
  25. ^ "NJ Transit #6 bus schedule" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 28, 2018. Retrieved August 20, 2009.

40°41′21″N 74°05′44″W / 40.68903°N 74.09557°W / 40.68903; -74.09557

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