English: View of the Hudson River at Jersey City, New Jersey. The Exchange Place station of the Pennsylvania Railroad and its ferry terminal are visible along the shoreline.

Identifier: array1875sipe (find matches)
Title: The Pennsylvania railroad: its origin, construction, condition, and connections. Embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Sipes, William B., d. 1905 Pennsylvania Railroad. Passenger Dept
Subjects: Pennsylvania Railroad
Publisher: Philadelphia (Pennsylvania Railroad Co.) Passenger Dept.
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Northeastern University, Snell Library

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umber of manufactories,including those of locomotives, machinery,glass, pyrotechnics, porcelain ware, etc.Among its many churches probably thefinest once stood in Wall street, New York,and was removed, stone by stone, and rebuilthere. It has several seminaries, and a highschool enjoying a distinguished reputation.Its banks and savings institutions are numer-ous and substantial, and its hotels areexcellent. The first settlements were made on thepresent site of the city about 1623, by theDutch, who claimed the territory now em-braced in New Jersey as being within thelimits of New Netherlands. During theRevolutionary war it was held by the Britishforces, who then occupied New York, andin August, 1779, was the scene of a gallantadventure, thus described in Sparks Lifeof Washington:—Major Harry Lee, atthe head of three hundred men and a troopof dismounted dragoons, surprised theenemys post at Paulus Hook, opposite NewYork, and took one hundred and fifty-nine 44 THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
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prisoners, having twoonly of his party slainand three wounded.The plan originatedwith Major Lee, andgreat praise was be-stowed upon him forthe address and brav-ery with which it wasexecuted. A medalof gold, commemo-rative of the event,was ordered by Con-gress to be struck andpresented to him. It was incorpora-ted as a city, with itspresent title, in 1820,at which time it wasin Eergen township,Bergen county, andcomprised all thatportion of the town-ship of Bergen ownedby the Jersey Associ-ates, formerly calledPaulusHook. Thecompany callingitself the Jersey As-sociates was char-tered November I oth,1804, for the sole pur-pose of purchasingthe place from Cor-nelius Van Vorst, theformer proprietor.Jersey City continuedin Bergen countyuntil February 22d,1840, when the coun-ty of Hudson was setoff from the countyof Bergen. In 1870,in compliance withthe request of thevoters, the legislaturepassed an act consoli-dating into one thecities of Jersey City,Hudson, and Bergen. The PennsylvaniaRail

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