|
| Historical Odds 'n Ends | |
|
|
Dates in Newark History1800 - 1899November 1, 1800 - The first water company is chartered (73 wells and springs supply water) 1801 - Jewelry was manufactured by "Epaphras Hinsdale" January 31, 1803 - The Female Charitable Society is organized 1804 - The town plot contains 844 houses, 207 mechanics shops, five public buildings, 3 lumber yards, four quarries, eight churches, nine clergymen, ten physicians, eight one farms, fourteen lawyers, sixteen school teachers, thirty four merchants and five druggists. January 1804 - The Newark Lyceum Society for Literary Improvement is organized. February 15, 1804 -An act of the Legislature provides that all children of slave parents born after July 4 of this year, shall be free leaving 16 male and 15 female slaves. May 1, 1804 - The Newark Banking and Insurance Company is organized. May 22, 1804 - A tornado tears down the Dutch Reformed Church at Second River (Belleville) December 25, 1804 - The Republican Herald publishes February 24. 1806 - The Newark and Pompton Turnpike is opened with Toll gates at Newark, Montclair, Singac and other places. 1806 - The Springfield and Newark Turnpike, now Springfield Ave. is opened. 1806 - Newark is noted for its cider, quarries, manufacturing of carriages, coaches, lace and shoes. Nearly one-third of its inhabitants, were constantly employed in the manufacturing of shoes. 1807 - The Sentinel of Freedom received a letter from a Newark resident complaining about a strange malady that was striking the town. The letter went on to complain about stagnant pools and the dead animals that were decomposing and emitting poisonous vapors. The letter writer stated that blame for this was the local slaughterhouses that used the streets as garbage receptacles. November 27, 1807 - The Modern Spectatora weekly periodical is published 1810 - Population 8008 April 1810 - The Newark Mutual Assurance Company (The Newark Fire Insurance Company) begins business. 1811 - The Essex County Court House is erected at the Northeast corner of Broad and Walnut Streets, the site of the present day Grace Episcopal Church. 1811 - William and Andrew Rankin bring Hat making to Newark. February 11, 1811 - The Newark and Morris Turnpike is incorporated. 1812 - During the War of 1812, a draft of every seventh man was made. A volunteer company of riflemen was formed and commanded by Theodore Frelinghuysen. June, 1814 - New Jersey troops depart for Staten Island to do patrol duty at Fort Richmond. 1815 - Under the provisions of an Act to authorize the inhabitants of the Township of Newark to build or purchase a poor house, the farm of Aaron Johnson was purchased, and in 1818 five acres of land adjoining were added to this farm. This property was known as the "Poor House Farm". December 1818 - Seth Boyden erects a patent leather factory 1820 - Population 6507 July 28, 1820 - The New Jersey Eagle is published July 4, 1826 - Seth Boyden discovers the process of making malleable iron February 26, 1827 - The Newark Lodge, No. 7 Masonic is organized December 16, 1830 - The first boat on the Morris Canal passes through town 1832 - Cholera Epidemic 1832 - Whaling Company incorporated. March 1, 1832 - The Daily Advertiser is published November 13, 1833 - Newark Sealing and Manufacturing Company is incorporated 1834 - Newark is made a port of entry. March 17, 1834 - The first Saint Patrick's day is celebrated June 14, 1834 - Cedar Street is born July 11, 1834 - An anti-abolition riot occurs in Newark, The Fourth Presbyterian Church is wrecked inside and the windows smashed by a mob of 1000 men. September 1, 1834 - The New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Co (Penn RR) is opened 1835 - 10,542 free white Americans, 6,000 Irish, 1,000 English and Scotch, 300 Germans and 358 free colored people in town January 29, 1835 - The Morris and Essex RR receives its charter. June 2, 1835 - A counterfeiting plant in the cellar of the last house on the Newark and Belleville road is uncovered. August 15, 1835 - The Court House is burned down 1836 - A tax is passed on the owning of dogs. Male dogs were taxed at $2.00 for one and $5.00 for each additional one. Female dogs were taxed at $10.00 for one and $2.00 for each additional one. Collarless dogs and dogs that attacked people or other animals could be killed on sight. 1836 - Streets of Newark were lighted with oil lamps. 1836 - A school system for the poor children is established. July 11, 1836 - The NJRR takes its guest on an excursion to the end of the line in New Brunswick August 24, 1836 - The cornerstone for the new Court House at Springfield and Market is laid October 27, 1836 - A great fire consumes almost the entire block on the south side of Market Street, east of Broad, breaking out in a German boarding house. November 19, 1836 - The Morris and Essex RR is opened to Orange 1837 - Persons in charge of vaults and burial grounds were required to furnish the city clerk with monthly lists of interments. 1837 - Morris Canal opens. 1838 - In 1838 a whole party of Essex Co. residents moved by covered wagon to Ottawa Co., Ohio. January 1, 1838 - The Morris and Essex RR is opened to Morristown February 10, 1838 - The Newark Museum is burned down 1840 - Smallpox Reappears 1844 - Mount Pleasant Cemetery is incorporated January 31, 1845 - The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company is organized February 27, 1845 - The New Jersey Historical Society is organized May 14, 1846 - The first fire hydrants are installed December 25, 1846 - The Newark Gas Light Co commenced the manufacture of gas for city streets 1848-49 - Influx of German Political fugitives following the collapse of the Revolution of the Grand Duchy of Baden February 21, 1848 - Library Hall is dedicated, on Market Street near Halsey March 28, 1848 - Protestant Foster Home is established February 9, 1849 - The Newark Orphan Asylum is incorporated 1849-50 - Cholera claim 148 in Newark 1851 - Present school system is established 1852 - A resolution was adopted to widen, deepen, and enclose one of the city's larger streams. This was supposed to begin to eliminate Newark's problems with sewage. The resolution was abandoned upon complaints from neighborhood residents Shortly thereafter work began on the city's first sewer, which was completed in 1853. 1853 - An unusually heavy downpour left many cellars of the Down Neck residents flooded for several days. This due to the watery subsoil of the region. 1853-54 - Market Building over Morris Canal is erected, the second story was used for Council Chamber, Committee Rooms, fire alarm bell, and east end of department for police station and city prison. 1853 - First street is paved using round stones. March 10, 1853 - St. Mary's Orphan Asylum is incorporated 1854 - Cholera Epidemic May 27, 1854 - The first YMCA is organized January 7, 1855 - Old High School building becomes the Girls Industrial School February 9, 1855 - Fairmount Cemetery is incorporated March 6, 1855 - Woodland Cemetery is incorporated as West Newark Cemetery April 5, 1855 - The Children's Aid Society is incorporated. April 21, 1855 - The Green Street German American School opens 1857 - 2,464 dogs were killed that year in the Dog Scare. A bounty was placed on unmuzzled dogs which were caught, brought to the dog pounds and killed. 1857 - The Newark Daily Mercury on the
installation of sewers: March 16, 1857 - The Howard Savings Institution is incorporated April 14, 1857 - The steamboat Belleville begins trips between Newark and Belleville March 19, 1858 - Newark Board of Health is established consisting of the Mayor, the members of the Common Council Committee on Public Health and the health Physician. April 25, 1858 - The New Jersey Freie Zeitung (newspaper) is established September 14, 1859 - The Arion Singing Society is organized May 30, 1861 - The First Brigade leaves for Washington 1861 - Steam fire engines are introduced May 13, 1862 - The United States Hospital for wounded soldiers is opened at the foot of Centre Street. 1864 - St. Peter's Orphan Asylum is founded April 24, 1865 - The Lincoln funeral train passes through Newark July 4, 1866 - The New Jersey Home for Disabled Soldiers is opened on Seventh Avenue February 13, 1867 - St. Barnabas' Hospital is incorporated February 27, 1868 - The German Hospital is incorporated January 15, 1868 - The New Jersey State Association Base Ball Players in organized May 10, 1868 - The Boys' Lodging House and Children's Aid Society is organized 1869 - St. Vincent's Academy is founded September, 1871 - The Woman's Christian Association is formed March 9, 1871 - St. Michael's Hospital is incorporated, opened in 1865 1872 - Newark Industrial Exhibition April 18, 1872 - The Home for the Friendless is organized May 18, 1872 - The Newark Sunday Call is published August 1872 - The Essex County Hospital at 63 Camden Street is founded February 18, 1875 - The Prudential Insurance Company of America is founded July, 1879 - Salvage Corps organized 1882 - Newark City Hospital at 116 Fairmount Avenue is opened. Until this time the district physicians and the dispensary provided the only municipally sponsored medical services available to the poor. March 25, 1882 - St. Benedict's College is charted 1883 - Newark Evening News established 1885 - The Newark Technical School is established 1886 - The old burying ground is given over for public purposes and bones of settlers are removed to Fairmount Cemetery January 21, 1887 - The city resolves that provision be made at once for the removal of the bodies buried in the Old Burying Ground to some suitable location. Branford Place crosses the area that once was the burying ground between Broad and Washington and Market and William. The bones and headstones were removed to Fairmount Cemetery where a metal monument marks the spot of their re-interment, stones and all 1887 - The Hebrew Orphan Asylum is opened at 232 Mulberry Street March 1887 - The Newark District Telegraph Co is established May 9, 1888 - The Free Public Library is organized December 29, 1888 - The digging up of the remains of the bodies in the Old Burying Ground between Broad and Halsey streets, now crossed by Branford place, is in progress, 60 men are at work and already four pine boxes of bones are ready for Fairmount Cemetery 1889 - The Gottfried Krueger Home for Aged Men is organized 1892 - First of "new" Prudential buildings erected. April 1893 - The Newark Ledger is established May 2, 1898 - First Regiment New Jersey Volunteers for Spanish-American War left Newark for Sea Girt, returned home September 26. February 1, 1899 - Barringer High School is opened
|
| Copyright 1998 - 2024 Glenn G. Geisheimer |
