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TitleAfrican Burying Ground, Bedminster, 2016 - Image 1 of 2
Date Created1801-2016
DescriptionThis marker designates the location of a burial ground for African American residents of Bedminster, both free men and slaves. Research by members of the Somerset County Historical Society uncovered...
Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861), Contemporary America (1968-present)
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TitleAfrican Burying Ground, Bedminster, 2016 - Image 2 of 2
Date Created1801-2016
DescriptionThis marker designates the location of a burial ground for African American residents of Bedminster, both free men and slaves. Research by members of the Somerset County Historical Society uncovered...
Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861), Contemporary America (1968-present)
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TitleGeorge H. Wanton receives the Congressional Medal of Honor in Paterson, New Jersey
Date Created1922
DescriptionGeorge H. Wanton was one of the first African Americans to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. After the Spanish-American War was declared, he joined the U.S. Calvary. He was dispatched to...
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleJersey City, Journal Square, plaque at base of Jackie Robinson statue
Date Created2007
DescriptionThis plaque sits at the base of a statue of Jackie Robinson. The statue is in front of the Journal Square Transportation Center and commemorates Jackie Robinson's first minor league baseball game,...
Time PeriodContemporary America (1968-present)
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TitleJersey City, Journal Square, Jackie Robinson statue
Date Created2007
DescriptionThis statue of Jackie Robinson sits in front of the Journal Square Transportation Center. Susan Wagner's sculpture commemorates Jackie Robinson's first minor league baseball game, which was played in...
Time PeriodContemporary America (1968-present)
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TitleUnidentified pool of water set in a lot between homes in Paterson, New Jersey
Date Created1929
DescriptionUnidentified pool of water set in a lot between homes. Note the two African-American children in the second floor window on the left. Photographed July 9, 1929 by H.B.
Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleJane Tuers and Sam Fraunces Depicted by Schoolchildren in 1910
Date Created1910
DescriptionStudents depicting Sam Fraunces, who ran Fraunces Tavern in Manhattan, telling Jane Tuers of the village of Bergen that he overheard British soldiers toasting an American traitor named Arnold who was...
Time PeriodRevolution and the New Nation (1754-1820), The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
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TitleThe Negro and New Jersey
Date Issued1965
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TitleChildren of flood victims playing with toys
Date Created1950
DescriptionChildren of flood victims playing with toys at the Seabrook Farms Community House where they and their families are given shelter.
Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)
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TitleA True and perfect Inventory of all and singular the good and chattles, rights, and credits, of Garret J. Newkirk late of the township of Bergen, in the County of Bergen Deceas'd made by us whose names are hereunto Subscribed, the twenty sixth day of December in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
AuthorNewkirk, Garret J.
Date Created1818
DescriptionInventory of the estate of Garret Newkirk, November 16, 1818, including three slaves as well as tools and products of a farm estate. An example of the possessions of a well-off farm, and the relative...
Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861)