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Showing posts with label immigrants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immigrants. Show all posts
Friday, October 31, 2014

For Halloween, some of our favorite haunts

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It's Halloween, and New Jersey-based websites are having a field day with posts citing the state's top scary and haunted places. If ...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

The hidden Ellis Island Hospital: admitting again, starting October 1

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Long-time readers know we have a special relationship with Ellis Island... the New Jersey side . As a volunteer with the National Park Servi...
Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Back to shul on Garton Road: vestiges of South Jersey's Jewish agricultural past

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Drive around rural Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem counties, and you'll be struck with the number of small yet vibrant churches you...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Immigration's lesser-known New Jersey gateway

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Today it sits at the edge of New York Harbor, suffering from enduring damage suffered at the hand of Hurricane Sandy. A hundred years ago, i...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

Gloucester City: Philadelphia's historic immigrant port of entry

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Ask just about anyone where America's "Golden Door" of immigration stood in the late 19th and early 20th century, and they...
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Sunday, January 6, 2013

From Ellis Island to the rest of America

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I love running into signs like this: Where is it, you wonder? Jersey City? Newark? Nope. It's in Bloomsbury, 60 miles west of ...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Smithville and the wreck of the Powhatan

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No matter where we're going, if we come upon an old graveyard, there's a good chance we're stopping. Ivan's always on the lo...
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