The entire city was controlled by the Puritan communities until Josiah Ogden decided to break off from the Church and dismantle the entire Puritan theocracy. This happened after he was reprimanded by the Church for breaking the Sabbath.
Following this incident, Ogden instigated riots and revolts that eventually caused the Puritan system in Newark to wobble and finally diminish. It took almost seven decades for eliminating the final elements of theocracy from Newark. This was marked by Non-Protestants being given the right for holding office. After a series of turmoil, riots, protests and political instability, Newark finally started reviving during the early s.
It is still one of the major distribution points for the East Coast and houses the Newark Liberty International Airport. It is important to note that this is one of the three leading airports servicing the New York City. The Mayor of the city also sanctioned the development of baseball courts and shopping malls to retain popularity and strengthen the economy of the city. Owing to these developments, Newark is currently reviving.
The city attracts tourists and its corruption and crime rate have been significantly reduced with proper management and organization.
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Left to their own devices, some of the others went up to the Hackensack [the village and headquarters of the local tribe of Lenni Lenape] to treat with the Indian proprietors for the land lying on the West Bank of the Passaic River.
Treat, through Samuel Edsal, an interpreter of the Lenni Lenape tongue and land-owner in Bergen Neck, negotiated with the Indian proprietors a deed of sale for the land. The natives probably felt this was a good bargain, since it provided knives, guns, axes and other goods useful in their lives.
It is storied that Elizabeth Swaine, daughter of Captain Samuel Swain, a leader among the settlers was the first to be assisted to the land in May , by Josiah Ward who she later married. The land was described as rich and the river and bay teaming with seafood.
Forests of oak, chestnut, hickory, elm, maple including sugar maple provided for energy and building material. White cedar swamp occupied much of what are now the Hackensack meadowlands. Fresh water was at hand. An industrial exposition in showed that the city was becoming more and more diversified in its manufacturing interests, although brewing, jewelry, and leather still maintained the lead.
But while these industries were at their peak, the scientific age was beginning to transform completely the city's industrial character. In John Wesley Hyatt invented celluloid and laid the basis for the important plastic industry. Eighteen years later the Rev.
Hannibal Goodwin developed a process which later turned celluloid into film for photographic negatives. Thomas A. Edison's invention of the electric light bulb in nearby Menlo Park was responsible for the rise of a new industry in Newark. Later Edward Weston carried on the Edison tradition with many important electrical inventions. The post-Civil War period was marked also by the city's finest literary flowering. Stephen Crane , the novelist, was its greatest literary figure.
His contemporary, Mary Mapes Dodge , created the children's classic, Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates, and Edmund Clarence Stedman , banker-poet-editor, conducted literary salons in and around Newark for a decade.
Noah Brooks , well known at the end of the last century as a journalist and author of books for boys, was editor of the Newark Daily Advertiser in By the turn of the century the newer, electrified industries were crowding out the old steam crafts and preparing Newark for its future leadership in heavy, mass industrial enterprise.
Municipal government under Mayor Joseph Haynes aided the upswing with improved water facilities, new buildings and sincere efforts to harmonize the interests of industry and the city. Similarly, the once independent unions contributed toward stabilization by consolidation into the American Federation of Labor.
The World War heightened Newark's position as an industrial center and laid the foundation for its future as a port. While factories worked on hour schedules, the Federal Government developed struggling Port Newark into an army base and prepared it for major shipping operations. Post-war prosperity made Newark more than ever the hub of northern New Jersey. Apartment houses in the residential districts and skyscrapers on Broad Street gave the city a metropolitan appearance.
Airplanes replaced the earlier mosquitoes in flights over the old Newark meadows, and in the airport was designated the eastern air mail terminal. In a city subway, built in the bed of the Morris Canal, and a new Pennsylvania Railroad station were opened to modernize the city's transport system.
By all trolley cars had been eliminated on downtown surface lines. In recent years the influence of New York City has strongly colored Newark's social and industrial life. A network of automobile highways followed the railroads across the Hackensack meadows, with the result that Newark began increasingly to share New York City's suburban population with the New Jersey cities along the Hudson, without losing its identity as the market center for the west.
This overflow from New York was a basic cause of the sudden expansion in the 90's, noted above. Factories began crowding out the older residential districts along the river and along the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad between New York and New Jersey. The residents began moving to the higher ground farther up the river and along the base of the Watchung Mountains; then the wealthier commuting class from New York saw the advantages of the Watchungs as a residential haven, and soon the old villages which surrounded the city became prosperous some of them very expensive communities that reflect suburban New York life more than they do the quieter tempo of interior New Jersey.
The completion of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad in between Newark, Jersey City, and New York under the direction of William Gibbs McAdoo greatly accelerated the intermingling of the population and speeded the development of the city. The new rapid transit attracted thousands from Manhattan to Newark and its suburbs, and in turn made "going to New York" for business or pleasure a Newark habit. Additional thousands of men and women who work in the banking, insurance and industrial offices of Newark have homes and interests in outlying suburbs.
Like the New Yorkers they are only day time Newark residents. The city's newsstands offer further evidence of Newark's split personality. The logotypes of New York dailies outnumber those of Newark papers by a ratio of almost 3 to 1, and a large display of suburban and foreign language papers rivals the local publications. The patriarchal Newark Evening News is the most influential paper of the city and State. The Sunday Call, published only once a week, is as much a part of most Newark homes as the radio.
Nevertheless, thousands of Newarkers daily supplement local papers with New York publications. The result of these pulls to New York on the east and to suburbs on the west, is that modern Newark is very little a city of common interests.
Yet between these sizable commuting groups exists a larger and less well defined mass that may be called the population proper of Newark.
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