Hidden New Jersey

The travels and adventures of a couple of nuts wandering around New Jersey, looking for history, birds and other stuff.

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Showing posts with label Dutch settlement. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Dutch settlement. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Anchors, birds, farmhouses and oil: the evolution of Bayonne's Constable Hook

Last week's visit to Bayonne revealed more than an interesting avian visitor and a surprisingly highbrow golf course. A small sign at t...

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Wilderness on the Hudson: war, peace and farming in Dutch New Jersey

You might remember that a couple of years ago, we discovered the East Coast Greenway and wondered what it would be like to take the full 93...

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Stuff that's not there anymore: Communipaw Cove

Go to Liberty State Park today and you’ll see the remnants of its most immediate former use. The Jersey City terminal of the Central Ra...

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Jersey City's oldest house... in Westfield?

True New Jersey scholars know that the first Europeans to settle here were the Dutch, who built the community of Bergen on the site of prese...

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