Newark
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- Names
Newark
Pesayak Towne
Milford
Youngs Point
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Largest city in New Jersey, located on Newark Bay and Passaic River 9 miles from New York City; supply base for Washington during Revolution in 1776; is major regional industrial center; noted for many inventors and writers; site of race riots in 1967.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Born
Grace Hartigan (American, 1922-2008)
Beatrice Mandelman (American, 1912-1998)
Cyrilla Mozenter (American, born 1947)
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