Woodside, the North End of Newark, N.J

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Author

Hine, C. G. (Charles Gilbert), 1859-1931

Title

Woodside, the North End of Newark, N.J. Its History, Legends and Ghost Stories Gathered from the Records and the Older Inhabitants Now Living

Credits

E-text prepared by David King and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

F106: United States local history: Atlantic coast. Middle Atlantic States

Subject

Woodside (Newark, N.J.) -- History

Category

Text

eBook-No.

63996

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63996

Release Date

December 9, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Woodside, the North End of Newark, N. J.
2. 2.INTRODUCTION.
3. 3.PART I. — GENERAL HISTORY. — THE FIRST BOUNDARIES OF WOODSIDE. — AN INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY. — WOODSIDE SUBMERGED. — THE OLD ROADS OF WOODSIDE. — HOW WE ARE TO PROCEED. — THE RIVER ROAD. — THE GULLY ROAD. — A GULLY ROAD GHOST. — INDIAN RELICS FOUND IN THE GULLY ROAD. — OLD MOLL DE GROW. — BODY SNATCHING. — THE DEVIL IN THE GULLY ROAD. — A LOVER’S LANE. — GHOST OF A BRITISH SPY. — HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT. — THE HARE AND TORTOISE. — THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE. — EARLIER DWELLERS SOUTH OF THE GULLY ROAD. — GREEN ISLAND. — OF FISH AND FISHING. — THE SMELT OF THE PASSAIC RIVER. — THE POINT HOUSE. — PHŒBE KING AND THE POINT HOUSE. — THE POINT HOUSE WORKS FOR A LIVING. — THE FLOATING PALACE. — OLD BLACK TOM. — THE KING PROPERTY. — A REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENT. — BURIED TREASURE. — WHEN BRITON MET BRITON. — THORNHILL. — THE TERHUNE PLACE. — SANDFORD. — POLLY VAN WINKLE. — MUNN. — THE MELIUS HOUSE. — STIMIS FAMILY TRADITIONS. — HESSIANS BURY LOOT. — OLD TWO BOTTLES. — THE ALEXANDER PLACE. — THE LIME KILN. — HOUSES ABOVE GRAFTON AVENUE. — COEYMAN GENEALOGY. — EXTENT OF THE COEYMAN POSSESSIONS. — A COEYMAN REMINISCENCE. — WASHINGTON MARCHES DOWN THE RIVER ROAD. — STEPHEN VAN CORTLANDT AT SECOND RIVER. — THE OLD VAN CORTLANDT HOUSE. — NOTES ON THE VAN CORTLANDT PLACE. — ADVICE TO GIRLS WHO WOULD MARRY. — JOHN VAN RENSSELAER II. — WHAT AN OLD MAP SHOWS. — CANNON BALLS FROM THE RIVER. — COEYMAN BURIAL GROUND. — INDIAN RELICS. — A MYSTERY SOLVED. — ADDITIONAL ON THE VAN CORTLANDT HOME. — DIVISION ROAD. — BACK ROAD. — THE “STRAWBERRY” LOT. — RIVERSIDE ATHLETIC CLUB. — A MILLERITE. — NAMES OF SOME EARLY OWNERS. — A LESSON IN MANNERS. — MR. MILES I’ANSON AND PREVIOUS OWNERS OF HIS PROPERTY. — THE PHILLIPS FARM. — A REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENT. — THE PEROU TRACT. — THE ANTHONY WAYNE CAMP GROUND. — A REVOLUTIONARY INCIDENT. — PHILLIPS FARM HOUSE. — THE BRITISH ON WOODSIDE SOIL. — THE MAGAZINE HOUSE. — EARLY LANES. — THE HAUNT OF THE HIGHWAYMAN. — NOT A CHRISTMAS CARROLL. — THE WOODS OF THE OLD BACK ROAD. — JESSE C. BENNETT. — THE CALICO PRINT WORKS. — A FLESH AND BLOOD GHOST. — WASHINGTON RESTS AT SECOND RIVER. — THE OLD BLOOMFIELD ROAD. — LORENZO DOW. — THE OLD ROAD A HIGHWAY. — ADRIAN SCHARFF. — THE “WHITE-HOUSE” SMITHS. — LAND VALUES BEFORE THE PANIC OF ’73. — WHERE JOHN MORRIS LIVED. — KEEN FAMILY TRADITION. — THE “BRICK-HOUSE” SMITHS. — THE SIDMANS OF OTHER DAYS. — FOREST HILL BEFORE MORRISTOWN. — A KEEN HOMESTEAD. — THE FARRAND FAMILY. — MURPHY’S LANE. — THE VAN RIPER FLOWER GARDEN. — BIRD’S WOODS. — NAMES OF FORMER DWELLERS ON MURPHY’S LANE. — THE FIRST SUNDAY SCHOOL IN WOODSIDE. — AN EASY WAY TO DIVIDE EVEN. — WAUTERS—WAUTERSE. — POLLY VAN WINKLE AGAIN. — MURPHYTOWN. — THE GYPSIES DO BUSINESS. — THE BENNETT PROPERTY. — PETER COOPER OWNS LAND HERE. — DR. GRENVILLE M. WEEKS COMES ON THE SCENE. — MR. JAS. YEREANCE A RESIDENT. — DR. WEEKS AND THE MONITOR. — DR. THEODORE RUGGLES TIMBY. — MR. HORACE ABBOTT MAKES THE MONITOR A POSSIBILITY. — THE MONITOR GOES TO HAMPTON ROADS. — TALE OF THE MERRIMAC’S ENGINEER. — DR. WEEKS TRANSFERRED TO THE MONITOR. — CAPTAIN BANKHEAD IN COMMAND. — SINKING OF THE MONITOR. — NOTES ON THE CRANE FAMILY.
4. 4.PART II. — C. C. HINE AND HIS TIMES. — CHARLES COLE HINE. — MR. HINE IN SEARCH OF A HOME. — MR. HINE FIRST VISITS WOODSIDE. — THE FIRST HOUSES ERECTED ON WASHINGTON AVENUE. — THE FIRST HOUSES ERECTED ON LINCOLN AVENUE. — HOUSES ERECTED IN 1866-7. — HOMES OF AN EARLIER PERIOD. — INTRODUCING MR. ANANIAS. — ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. — A WOODSIDE MOLASSES JAR. — CAPT. KIDD IN THE WINSER BACK YARD. — MORRISON & BRIGGS. — THE SAD FATE OF THE WINSER HORSE. — THE OPENING OF WASHINGTON AVENUE. — ONE DOLLAR EACH. — REMINISCENCES BY MR. SWINNERTON. — THE WOODSIDE OF 1867. — THE SUNDAY SCHOOL OF JUNE 16, 1867. — A CHURCH BELL IS PROCURED. — FAIRS, CAKE SALES AND LECTURES. — THE RETREAT FROM BELLEVILLE. — THE ERIE RAILROAD. — THE MAKING OF A SUNDAY SCHOOL. — A “BEFORE-THE-WAR” STORY. — THE MAKING OF A CHURCH. — THE FIRST CHURCH OF WOODSIDE. — MR. HINE’S HOUSE THE FIRST CHURCH BUILDING. — A SPLIT IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION. — A PARTISAN. — PIONEERING IN WOODSIDE. — PASTORS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. — SUNDAY SCHOOL IN THE ELLIOTT STREET SCHOOLHOUSE. — FORMATION OF CHRIST CHURCH OF WOODSIDE. — DR. MACAULEY THE FIRST PASTOR OF CHRIST CHURCH. — DR. JOHN M. MACAULEY. — TWO UNMENTIONABLES. — REV. ISAAC VAN WART SCHENCK. — REV. HENRY MERLE MELLEN. — INCIDENTS OF THE EARLY DAYS OF THE CHURCH. — THE CHURCH CHOIR. — WOODSIDE, 1868-9. — WOODSIDE TOWNSHIP. — A WOODSIDE TRAGEDY. — WOODSIDE AND THE STREET CAR. — NOTES ON MR. HINE’S CHARACTER. — MRS. MARY HAZARD AVERY HINE. — THE ZENANA MISSION BAND. — MISS JANE A. AVERY. — MR. HORACE H. NICHOLS. — REMINISCENCES OF MR. HENRY J. WINSER. — MR. JAMES SWINNERTON. — MR. ALBERT BEACH. — GEN. GILBERT W. CUMMING. — MR. JOHN MORRIS PHILLIPS. — MR. DAVID MACLURE. — COL. SAMUEL L. BUCK. — MR. DANIEL F. TOMPKINS. — JOHN F. DRYDEN. — THE “COUNT”. — LIEUT.-COL. W. E. BLEWETT. — MR. THOMAS W. KINSEY. — DR. J. E. JANES. — MR. PETER WEILER. — BELLARS. — BOATING DAYS ON THE PASSAIC. — CANOEING RECOLLECTIONS. — A LAST WORD IN REGARD TO MR. HINE.
5. 5.PART III. — C. C. HINE—PERSONAL. — WHAT OTHERS THOUGHT OF MR. HINE. — Y. M. C. A. IN 1855. — THE PATRIARCH RAISES HIS VOICE IN SONG. — AFTER THE BANQUET WAS OVER. — YE PATRIARCH AS A HOOSIER.
6. 6.APPENDIX. — REPORT OF THE FIRST YEAR OF THE WOODSIDE SUNDAY SCHOOL. — ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DISTRICT CLERK OF TOWNSHIP OF WOODSIDE
7. 7.CONTENTS.

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