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Boats To Bonfield, George Robert (New Jersey)

Boats. Relatively small, usually open, water-craft, boats were adapted to local conditions and requirements for work. The earliest New Jersey boat type recorded is the Lenape canoe. Referred to as a dugout, the craft was made from the hollowed-out trunk of a tree and used by the Lenapes for fishing and transportation. One surviving dugout […]

Benisovich, Michel To Boundaries (New Jersey)

Benisovich, Michel. "Sales of French Collections of Paintings in the United States during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.” Art Quarterly 19 (1956): 288-301. Jon Bon Jovi, Asbury Park, 2001. Other migrant companies included legal publishers Matthew Bender (Newark), business reference publishers Dun and Bradstreet (Murray Hill), Hammond World Atlas Corporation (Union), reference publishers […]

Bound Brook To Bradford, Cornelia Foster (New Jersey)

Bound Brook. 1.7-square-mile borough in Somerset County. The land on which Bound Brook now stands was purchased from the Lenape tribe for £100 worth of goods in 1681. At the time of the American Revolution, when troops under Gen. George Washington camped in the municipality, Bound Brook was home to only thirty-five families. The construction […]

Bradley, Joseph To Brick making (New Jersey)

Bradley, Joseph (b. Mar. 14, 1813; d. Jan. 22, 1892). Attorney and U.S. Supreme Court justice. Born near Albany, New York, the eldest of twelve children, Joseph Bradley spent his early years as part of a typical, large, rural farm family, filled with "plowing… clearing land and burning wood… and peddling charcoal.” He abandoned his […]

Bridges To Broome, Isaac (New Jersey)

Bridges. New Jersey, as a peninsular state, is by necessity home to some of the most historically and technologically significant bridges in the world. All three of the basic types of bridges—beam, arch, and suspension—are represented. Beam bridges consist of a horizontal beam supported by piers at each end. To increase the support for the […]

Brotherton Indian Reservation. To Burlington County (New Jersey)

Brotherton Indian Reservation.Brotherton, New Jersey’s sole Indian reservation, existed for just forty-three years. During the French and Indian War, the Lenape Indians had sided with the French, but in 1758 they sued for peace, relinquishing land ownership claims elsewhere in the colony in exchange for a reservation on the edge of the Pine Barrens. That […]

Burlington County College To Byllynge, Edward (New Jersey)

Burlington County College. A two- year community college serving Burlington County, Burlington County College was founded in 1969 at Lenape High School in Medford. A main campus in Pemberton Township opened in 1970; its main building, named for founding board chairman Lewis M. Parker, was dedicated the following year. The college began offering degree programs […]

Byram To Camden Churches Organized for People (New Jersey)

Byram. 21.91-square-mile township in southern Sussex County. Incorporated in 1798, Byram was previously part of Newton Township. It was named for the Byram family, settler Jephthah Byram in particular. Early European settlement arose around local iron mines, with forges erected at Stanhope, Waterloo, Roseville, and Columbia. Byram also served as a center of charcoal production […]

Camden County To Camp Kilmer (New Jersey)

Camden County. 227.52-square-mile county. Comprising thirty-seven municipalities, Camden County is the most densely populated county in southwestern New Jersey. Part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area, it is bounded on the west by the Delaware River and Gloucester County; Atlantic County is to the southeast, and Burlington County is to the northeast. It encompasses inner-city, suburban, […]

Camp meetings To Cape May County (New Jersey)

Camp meetings. The Cumberland Revival, which swept the Southeast in the late 1700s, marked the beginning of camp meetings in America. By the summer of 1800 the phenomenon had emerged as a successful tool of Protestant evangelism among Presbyterians, Baptists, and Methodists, and it spread to their northeastern brethren. The growing popularity of camp meetings […]

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