Download or read book Along the Raritan River written by Jason J. Slesinski and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Raritan River is the largest river in New Jersey, flowing from the states western mountains for approximately 16 miles toward the tidewaters of New Brunswick, from which point it widens over 14 miles before reaching the Raritan Bay. By the end of the 20th century, this estuary, known as the Lower Raritan River, was one of the most polluted in the nation. The very industrialization that brought economic prosperity to the communities along the Lower Raritan River was also the origin of the rivers contamination. Today, however, the waterway is making a comeback. Along the Raritan River: South Amboy to New Brunswick includes historical maps and photographs to tell the story of this changing cultural landscape and its natural beauty and resources, historic floods, economic enterprise, devastating pollution, and continued renewal and recovery.
Download or read book Along the Raritan River South Amboy to New Brunswick written by Jason J. Slesinski and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Raritan River is the largest river in New Jersey, flowing from the state's western mountains for approximately 16 miles toward the tidewaters of New Brunswick, from which point it widens over 14 miles before reaching the Raritan Bay. By the end of the 20th century, this estuary, known as the Lower Raritan River, was one of the most polluted in the nation. The very industrialization that brought economic prosperity to the communities along the Lower Raritan River was also the origin of the river's contamination. Today, however, the waterway is making a comeback. Along the Raritan River: South Amboy to New Brunswick includes historical maps and photographs to tell the story of this changing cultural landscape and its natural beauty and resources, historic floods, economic enterprise, devastating pollution, and continued renewal and recovery.
Download or read book River Rats written by Alison Hyland and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan Hyland, as a boy growing up in the city of New Brunswick, New Jersey from 1930-1938, saw the last boats being locked through the Delaware and Raritan Canal. He knew the old lock keepers and people who lived in the abandoned barges along the canal. The Raritan River and the D.& R. Canal provided recreation that was both exciting and extremely dangerous. Dan rode the ice flows on the Raritan after city work crews dynamited the frozen river in the early spring. He met strange and colorful people with names like "Corker Pete" and "Two-Cent Itszi." Dan and his buddies pulled a lot of stunts, caused mischief, and had run-ins with waterfront bullies. He enjoyed a free and virtually unsupervised boy's life. Money was nearly non-existent, so Dan and his friends pooled their resources, skills, and imaginations to find ways of earning money to go to the movies and acquire their play equipment. They learned how to capitalize on the neighborhood bootleggers and traveling junkmen. "River Rats: Growing Up on the Raritan River" is a memoir of the Great Depression. The stories are upbeat and at times humorous, reminiscent of the exploits of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.
Download or read book A Historical Journey Across Raritan Bay written by John Schneider and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historic Raritan Bay stretches from Staten Island to Sandy Hook, including the beach communities of Monmouth County. With its proximity to New York City and Jersey shore attractions, the bay region has been the setting for compelling moments throughout American history. The native Lenapes harvested oysters and fished the waters along the bayshore generations before Dutch and English colonists reached their coasts. Local slave Titus Cornelius, or Colonel Tye, escaped from bondage and led Loyalist forces in raids to destabilize the area during the Revolutionary War. Steamships traversed the bay carrying hordes of vacationers from New York to newly established resorts along the "Riviera of New Jersey" in the early twentieth century. Climb aboard as author John Schneider takes readers on a historical journey across Raritan Bay.
Download or read book The Raritan River written by Judith Auer Shaw and published by Rivergate Regionals Collection. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Raritan River shows New Jersey for what it is--home to some of the most beautiful scenery in the country. This lavishly illustrated book tells the story of an amazing region where protected environments coexist with land left in ruins by rampant industrialization and where the reckless pursuit of commerce scarred the lands along its banks. Shaw reminds us that people are the solution and aims to show what is possible when we rescue the land, restore the habitat, and create harmony with nature.
Download or read book The Delaware and Raritan Canal written by Linda J. Barth and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly one hundred seventy years, the Delaware and Raritan Canal has meandered across the narrow waist of New Jersey through bustling cities, suburban towns, and rural landscapes. One of the most successful towpath canals in the United States, the Delaware and Raritan carried more tonnage in 1866 than the famous Erie Canal. Transporting mainly anthracite coal, the Delaware and Raritan also stimulated industries as diverse as Roebling's wire-rope factory in Trenton, Johnson & Johnson pharmaceuticals in New Brunswick, and Fleischmann's Distillery in East Millstone. Today, as the centerpiece of the Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park, the canal provides the people of central New Jersey with both a water supply and a premier recreational facility.The Delaware and Raritan Canal introduces you to this manmade waterway through some two hundred historical photographs and postcards. In these pages, discover the locks, aqueducts, and machinery that enabled the waterway to transport military men and supplies between New York and Philadelphia during three wars. See how inventor John Holland used the canal to deliver his Holland VI submarine to Washington for its naval trials and how luxury yachts, including J.P. Morgan's Tarantula, cruised the waterway. The Delaware and Raritan Canal documents a historical and recreational gem in the heart of New Jersey.
Download or read book Raritan River N J Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting Report from the Chief of Engineers on Preliminary Examination and Survey of Raritan River from Washington Channel to the Lower Lock of the Delaware Raritan Canal at New Brunswick with the View of Having the Present Channel Increased to a Depth of 15 Feet Below Low Water written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Raritan written by John Charles Van Dyke and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mixed Train Daily written by Lucius Beebe and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Raritan River New Jersey written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Raritan River N J Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting Report from the Chief of Engineers on Preliminary Examination and Survey of Raritan River from Washington Channel to the Lower Lock of the Delaware and Raritan Canal at New Brunswick with the View of Having the Present Channel Increased to a Depth of 15 Feet Below Low Water December 4 1928 Referred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors and Ordered to be Printed with Illustration written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Relations of Surface water Quality to Streamflow in the Raritan River Basin New Jersey Water Years 1976 93 written by Debra E. Buxton and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sedimentologic and Hydraulic Characteristics of the Raritan River in the Bound Brook Reach written by Gary H. Haag and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Raritan Bay and Raritan River N J written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Raritan Notes on a River and a Family Classic Reprint written by John C. Van Dyke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Raritan Notes on a River and a Family For much of its course the River flows through a low slightly-undulating country. Off in the northwest there is a range of blue hills where the stream takes its head. It comes to life, runs its course, and passes out to the sea before a hundred miles are counted. No stately reach of thousands as the Mississippi; no lake like breadth of surface as the Saguenay or the lower Danube. The great streams go down to the ocean through broad basins and their shining silver faces may. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Raritan River Crossings written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Delaware and Raritan Canal at Work written by Linda J. Barth and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Delaware and Raritan Canal connected the Chesapeake Bay with New England ports, allowing a wide variety of vessels to use the waterway and avoid the treacherous Atlantic Ocean. The unusual machinery of the canal--locks, swing bridges, aqueducts, spill gates--is depicted in detail in The Delaware and Raritan Canal at Work. The book focuses on many of the businesses that operated along the canal, including farms, food-packing companies, rubber-reclaiming plants, coal yards, quarries, Johnson & Johnson, and Atlantic Terra Cotta. It includes scenic views along this famous waterway, one of the most successful towpath canals in the United States.
