Populated place in Hudson County, New Jersey, US
Curries Woods is a neighborhood in the southern part of
Greenville in
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.
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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
Algonquian language spoken by the
Hackensack people, a
phratry of the
Lenni-Lenape who lived in the
northeastern New Jersey at the time of European contact in the 17th century. A possible meaning could be rock or point of rocks which would refer to the terrain
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[8] and the original
ravine in
Bergen Hill , or lower
Hudson Palisades , found there. Spellings included Pimbrepow , Pembrepock , Pemmerepoch ,
[9] Pimlipo , Pemrepau ,
[10] Pemrapaugh , Pamrapough ,
[11] Pamrepaw
[12] and Pamropo .
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Two streets, one in
Greenville and another in northern
Bayonne still bear the name.
[15] Patents for land
Achter Kol (beyond the ridge) were issued in 1654,
[16] as an extension of the
Pavonia, New Netherland settlement, which were centered on
Communipaw and
Harsimus . The Pamrapo Bank, founded in Bayonne in the 19th century, takes its name from this area.
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[18] The
Central Railroad of New Jersey maintained a station called
Pamrapo along the
right of way now used by the
Hudson Bergen Light Rail
City line
While the original
Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway tracks,
New Jersey Route 185 ,
New Jersey Turnpike
Newark Bay Extension (
I-78 ) create a physical boundary and
de facto border with
Bayonne the actual city cuts diagonally across the neighborhood along the route of the
Morris Canal . The unusual path of the canal was made necessary by
Bergen Hill , lower the
Hudson Palisades . Travelling parallel to the base of the ridge it was
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 .
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Transportation
Merritt Street,a 0.14 miles (0.23 km) section of which part is designated
Hudson County Route 707, is a short street in the neighborhood where
Old Bergen Road and Ocean Avenue end and Avenue C begins.
[24] The street is terminus for
New Jersey Transit
Bus 6 .
[25]
See also
Odonyms in Hudson County, New Jersey
References
^
http://files.usgwarchives.net/nj/hudson/cemeteries/oldgreenville.txt
Archived May 31, 2012, at the
Wayback Machine [
bare URL plain text file ]
^
Curries Woods
Archived 2009-01-10 at the
Wayback Machine
^
JC Housding Authority
^
"Woodlands Indians forums" . Archived from
the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved September 13, 2009 .
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"Pamrapo" . Archived from
the original on August 11, 2009. Retrieved August 21, 2009 .
^
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.
^
"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 .
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"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 .
^
"RootsWeb: Dutch-Colonies-L [D-Col] Re: Vrouwtie and Gerrtie Gerrits" . Archived from
the original on March 18, 2012. Retrieved August 21, 2009 .
^
Seven Settled Towns
Archived March 27, 2009, at the
Wayback Machine
^
USA archives Bergen deeds
Archived 2009-10-20 at the
Wayback Machine
^ United States Coast Guard Survey: New York Bay and Harbor and Environs , Washington, D.C., 1844-45
^ Currier and Ives, 1872
^ 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" .
^ Hudson County New Jersey Street Map . Hagstrom Map Company, Inc. 2008.
ISBN
978-0-88097-763-0 .
^ History of new Netherland, E.B. Callaghan (c)1855
^
"Pamrapo Bank" .
Archived from the original on August 28, 2009. Retrieved August 14, 2009 .
^
Timeline for the Founding and History of the City of Bayonne
Archived September 17, 2011, at the
Wayback Machine
^ Hudson County New Jersey Street Map . Hagstrom Map Company, Inc. 2008.
ISBN
978-0-88097-763-0 .
^
"JC Online:Morris Canal" .
Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved March 16, 2010 .
^
Old Bergen Road
^
"Wikimapia:Newark Bay at Jersey City" .
Archived from the original on January 29, 2015. Retrieved March 16, 2010 .
^
http://www.owners.com/NJ/Bayonne/
Archived 2010-04-16 at the
Wayback Machine Map of Bayonne
^
"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 .
^
"NJ Transit #6 bus schedule" (PDF) . Archived from
the original (PDF) on March 28, 2018. Retrieved August 20, 2009 .
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