Download or read book This is Boonton Township Morris County New Jersey written by League of Women Voters and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boonton written by Boonton Historical Society and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boonton's origins date back to 1747 with the forgotten village of Old Boonton, the remains of which now lie under the Jersey City Reservoir. Distinguished for its iron forges and mills, Old Boonton owed its existence primarily to the waterpower provided by the Rockaway River. The building of the Morris Canal in 1825, which bypassed Old Boonton and caused its decline, was the driving force in the development of the current town of Boonton 1.5 miles upriver. In 1830, the New Jersey Iron Company selected this site for a new ironworks and imported machinery and workers from England, who brought with them their families and religions. Soon, homes, churches, and schools were built, and a town developed. As the years passed, Boonton evolved from a single-industry town into what it is today, an established community with an abundance of park lands, historic homes, and a thriving main street business district.
Download or read book Boonton written by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1830," Isaac S. Lyon wrote, "Boonton was one of the wildest, rockiest, briariest and most romantic places that the mind of man could imagine." More than a century later, a visitor told his wife, "May, you should see that town of Boonton. The whole Main Street is on a hill. I never saw a town with a Main Street on a hill." These were the first impressions of a town built upon the foundation of its ironworks and "iron town," populated by hardy, self-reliant men and women. Among the earliest immigrants were the English, recruited by the New Jersey Iron Company in 1830 and numbering about thirty families. Within the next two decades, Irish laborers came to work in the mills, followed by Slovaks in the 1890s ,and Italians, Poles, and Germans around the beginning of the 1900s. Two smaller groups were African Americans, some of whose ancestors had come to Boonton 150 years earlier, and Jews, who arrived c. 1900 and later. In Boonton, the descendants of these early families and newcomers reveal the Boonton of yesterday and today, and anticipate the Boonton of tomorrow. Among them is a retired kindergarten teacher who was greeted by the local "fellas" when she got off the bus in Boonton for the first time at age twenty-one. A ninety-four-yearold recalls his experiences eighty years ago as a truck driver, running molasses for the local gin mills. An eighty-one-year-old tells of the activities of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, and a woman remembers the horror of the 1918 flu epidemic.
Download or read book Historic Highlights of Boonton Township written by David Mitros and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Findings of Old Boonton written by Ernest A. Piscitello and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first published book, former resident of Boonton N.J., Ernest A. Piscitello looks into "Old Boonton", a town flooded by the waters of the Jersey City N.J. Reservoir at the beginning of the 20th Century, and presents his varied findings.
Download or read book Historical Discourse on Boonton Delivered Before the Citizens of Boonton at Washington Hall on the Evenings of September 21 and 28 and October 5 1867 written by Isaac S. Lyon and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revised Ordinances of the Town of Boonton New Jersey 1956 written by Boonton (N.J.) and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book More Stories of a Small Town Boonton USA written by Terry Charlton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MORE STORIES OF A SMALL TOWN BOONTON USA is our second book of "Oral History" stories about people growing up in Boonton NJ during the 1930s and 1940s. These 40+ senior citizens (and a few people not yet seniors) describe their experience in the melting pot called "Boonton." They are people brought up with conscience, character, courage and commitment. No matter where they travel, l Boonton is truly home. The song title, "Everybody knows my name" is applicable here. Come back to Boonton even 50 years later, and find old friends and classmates ready to take you out to lunch! These people use words like happy, grateful and optimistic - and mean them. Even though they faced huge difficulties in the Depression and facing WWII, they laugh when telling their stories. Sandi was fired after getting married because JCP&L had a policy not to employ married women. Dick's plane was shot down over Japan in WWII and he commented that he enjoyed parachuting. Vivian was offered a job teaching high school but in the 1930s, she could not live independently as it was taboo, so she found a room as a "boarder." These are ordinary people and yet they are extraordinary!
Download or read book The Transportation History of Boonton NJ written by William McKelvey and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories of a Small Town written by Lloyd Charlton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about what life was like growing up in Boonton NJ during the Depression and WWII. STORIES OF A SMALL TOWN BOONTON USA is a 200-page book full of stories and photos about people who lived in challenging times and who welcomed the challenge. These 40 senior citizens interviewed for the book epitomize what is best about America. They are ordinary people brought up with conscience, character, courage and commitment. You will learn how family upbringing and life events shaped their lives. Despite tough times and their share of heartache, they are people of gratitude, humor and hope who are sure to make you smile as you read about their memories of growing up in a small town.
Download or read book Know Your Town Boonton New Jersey written by Boonton League of Women Voters and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boonton Land Use ordinances written by Boonton (N.J. : Township) and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boonton Township Cemeteries written by Robert A. Illig and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charter and Ordinances of the Town of Boonton written by Boonton (N.J.) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Article 47 Zoning and Planning written by Boonton (N.J.). and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charter and Ordinances of the Town of Boonton 1907 written by Boonton (N.J.) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Highlights the Town of Boonton written by Morris County Heritage Commission (Morris County, N.J.) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
