Bird's-eye view of the West Hudson towns Harrison, East Newark, Kearny & Arlington (1907)The Kearny Meadows are crisscrossed with rail infrastructure and is home to New Jersey Transit's Meadows Maintenance ComplexWest Hudson Park in Kearny and Harrison
The area was known as Meghgectecock (spellings include masgichteu-cunk) by the Hackensack tribe of Lenape people who lived there at the time of European colonization,[10] meaning where May-apples grow, from a moist-woodland perennial that bears edible yellow berries[11] and used to describe the lobe of land between and before the confluence of the Hackensack and Passaic at Newark Bay.[12] During the 17th century was part of the area called Achter Col by New Netherlanders in the province of New Netherland. It was later given the name New Barbadoes Neck by British colonialists. All of West Hudson was originally part of Essex County under the jurisdiction of Newark. In 1710 it was made part of New Barbadoes Township, and part of Bergen County.[6] The West Hudson municipalities were part of Harrison Township, which was created by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 13, 1840, and was part of Hudson County, which had been created from portions of Bergen County on February 22, 1840.[13] The current borders were created through a series of secessions and reincorporations.[14][15]
1 2 3 "West Hudson: A Cradle of American Soccer". homepages.sover.net. The name West Hudson refers to the western part of Hudson County, lying between the Hackensack and Passaic rivers as they flow southward toward Newark Bay. A century-and-a-half ago, the West Hudson area was all a single municipality, Harrison Township, named in 1841 for recently deceased President William Henry Harrison. In 1867, all but the built-up southwestern tip of the township seceded from Harrison and took the name of Kearny, named after local Civil War hero Gen. Phillip Kearny. In 1895, a tiny area along the Passaic River (but a crucial area to soccer history) seceded from Kearny and became the borough of East Newark, which sometimes has been mistakenly referred to as being a part of the city of Newark.
↑ Shkolnikova, Svetlana (June 27, 2018). "World Cup an obsession in soccer-loving New Jersey towns". AP NEWS. Retrieved June 20, 2019. Other towns don't have the history of Kearny, Harrison or their fellow West Hudson community of East Newark
↑ Daniel Kleinwith guidance from Cynthia Harris and John Beekman (December 10, 2013). "The Paul F. Franco Collection(1724-1975)"(PDF). Jersey City Public Library. p.2. Retrieved June 25, 2019. Newspaper clippings from the Hudson Dispatch's "From By-Gone Days of Old Hudson County" feature...illustrate some of the history of Jersey City, Hoboken and the North Hudson towns...Not or hardly represented in the collection are the West Hudson municipalities of East Newark, Harrison and Kearny.
1 2 Quinnoct, Bill (October 7, 1973). "East Newark Finds Its Name Confusing". The New York Times. Retrieved June 30, 2019. East Newark, which celebrated its 75th anniversary three years ago, was established as a municipality in 1895. From Colonial days until 1710, all of West Hudson came under the jurisdiction of Newark. West Hudson, which also includes the Towns of Harrison and Kearny, then were made part of Bergen County until 1840, when Hudson County was created...All of West Hudson took the name of Harrison after President William Henry Harrison and retained that label until 1867 when the northern section of Harrison became Kearny. East Newark was part of Kearny until it moved for a separation in 1895.
↑ New Jersey Colonial Records, East Jersey Records: Part 1-Volume 21, Calendar of Records 1664-1702
↑ Floriani, Ray, Karena A. (2003), Harrison, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN9780738513461, ...now known as West Hudson...{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
↑ Caldwell, Dave (June 13, 2006). "A Town That Soccer Never Abandoned". The New York Times. Retrieved June 30, 2019. soccer enthusiasts of all ages in the area, which includes Harrison and Kearny in western Hudson County and the Ironbound section of Newark just across the Passaic River.
↑ Martin, Antoinette (August 11, 2002). "In the Region/New Jersey; Harrison Planning $1 Billion Mixed-Use Community"– via NYTimes.com. The town of Harrison has a long history with soccer... This area, including the Ironbound in Newark, Kearny and on up to North Arlington, has long-established Portuguese and Brazilian communities, and a quickly growing South American group, also Eastern European, Italians, Scotch, Irish, Polish, which are all part of a traditional fan base.
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