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John Basilone Veterans Memorial Bridge
The John Basilone Veterans Memorial Bridge is a bridge in New Jersey that crosses the Raritan River in Somerset County, New Jersey, Somerset County in Raritan, New Jersey, Raritan and Hillsborough, New Jersey, Hillsborough. The bridge was built in 2005 to replace the smaller Nevius Street Bridge built in 1886. The Nevius Street Bridge today functions as a pedestrian bridge. The bridge connects First Avenue and what used to be the short one way block of Lyman Street in Raritan, New Jersey, Raritan with County Route 505 (New Jersey), River Road in Hillsborough. After crossing into Hillsborough, the road curves to meet up with the old alignment with the Nevius Street Bridge. The bridge is named for local World War II hero, John Basilone. The bridge has a pedestrian tunnel underneath its northern approach, as part of the Raritan River Greenway. See also *List of crossings of the Raritan River References Bridges in Somerset County, New Jersey Monuments and memorials i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Basilone Veterans Memorial Bridge, Raritan, NJ
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a U.S. state, state located in both the Mid-Atlantic States, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. Located at the geographic hub of the urban area, heavily urbanized Northeast megalopolis, it is bordered to the northwest, north, and northeast by New York (state), New York State; on its east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on its west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on its southwest by Delaware Bay and Delaware. At , New Jersey is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, fifth-smallest state in land area. According to a 2024 United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau estimate, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 11th-most populous state, with over 9.5 million residents, its highest estimated count ever. The state capital is Trenton, New Jersey, Trenton, and the state's most populous city is Newark, New Jersey, Newark. New Jersey is the only U.S. stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raritan River
The Raritan River is a river of the U.S. state of New Jersey. Its Drainage basin, watershed drains much of the mountainous areas in the North Jersey, northern and Central Jersey, central sections of the state, emptying into the Raritan Bay near Staten Island on the Atlantic Ocean. History Geologists assert that the lower Raritan provided the course of the mouth of the Hudson River approximately 6,000 years ago. Following the end of the last ice age, the Narrows had not yet been formed and the Hudson flowed along the Watchung Mountains to present-day Bound Brook, New Jersey, Bound Brook, then followed the course of the Raritan eastward into Lower New York Bay. The name ''Raritan'' possibly derives from a branch of the Lenape people called the Nariticongs, the first people known to settle the Raritan Valley. Following conflict with the arriving Dutch colonization of the Americas, Dutch colonists, the native people of the region, especially the Sanhican, were forced to sell thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerset County, New Jersey
Somerset County is a county located in the north-central part of the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 census, the county was the state's 13th-most-populous county,Table1. New Jersey Counties and Most Populous Cities and Townships: 2020 and 2010 Censuses . Accessed December 1, 2022. with a population of 345,361, its highest [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raritan, New Jersey
Raritan is a Borough (New Jersey), borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 7,835, its highest decennial census count ever and an increase of 954 (+13.9%) from the 2010 United States census, 2010 census count of 6,881, which in turn had reflected an increase of 543 (+8.6%) from the 6,338 counted at the 2000 United States census, 2000 census. The borough's name is derived from the Raritan tribe, Raritans, a Native Americans in the United States, Native American group of Lenape. The name of the tribe is said to mean "forked river", "stream overflows", or "point on a tidal river". History Raritan town was originally established as a subdivision within Bridgewater Township, New Jersey, Bridgewater Township by act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 3, 1868. Despite its size, the town has an extensive history, that encompasses local, national, and even global history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillsborough, New Jersey
Hillsborough Township is a township in Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Located in the Raritan Valley region, the township is a suburban and exurban bedroom community of New York City within the New York Metropolitan Area. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 43,276, an increase of 4,973 (+13.0%) from the 2010 census count of 38,303, which in turn reflected an increase of 1,669 (+4.6%) from the 36,634 counted in the 2000 census. Hillsborough Township was originally created by royal charter issued May 31, 1771, which was revoked and revised on September 12, 1771. It was incorporated on February 21, 1798 by the New Jersey Legislature Township Act of 1798 as one of New Jersey's original group of 104 townships. Portions of the township were taken to form the boroughs of Millstone (May 14, 1894) and Manville (April 1, 1929).Snyder, John P''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968'' Bureau of Geology and Topography; Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nevius Street Bridge
The Nevius Street Bridge is a double intersection Pratt truss bridge that once carried car traffic across the Raritan River between Hillsborough Township and Raritan Borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. The bridge, described using its historic name, Raritan Bridge, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 12, 1992, for its engineering and method of construction. With It is part of the Metal Truss Bridges in Somerset County Multiple Property Submission (MPS). History In the 1840s, a wooden bridge crossed at the current location. The current bridge was built in 1886 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio. The construction of the nearby John Basilone Veterans Memorial Bridge replaced the Nevius Street Bridge in 2005. The bridge now serves as a pedestrian bridge, connecting River Road in Hillsborough with the Raritan River Greenway. The Raritan Water Power Canal is located at the north end of the bridge. The water pumping ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Route 505 (New Jersey)
County Route 505 (CR 505) is a County routes in New Jersey, county highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The highway extends 20.64 miles (33.22 kilometers) from Kennedy Boulevard (County Route 501 (New Jersey), CR 501) in Union City, New Jersey, Union City to the New York (state), New York state line in Northvale, New Jersey, Northvale. Route description County Route 505 begins at County Route 501 in Union City, New Jersey, Union City, where it travels east and soon after entering Weehawken, New Jersey, Weehawken, it is named Boulevard East. It proceeds northward, traveling parallel to the Hudson River atop the Hudson Palisades. At Anthony M. DeFino Way in West New York, New Jersey, West New York it takes a right turn and descends to the waterfront becoming River Road through North Bergen, New Jersey, North Bergen and Edgewater, New Jersey, Edgewater, where it then intersects New Jersey Route 5, Route 5. In Fort Lee, New Jersey, Fort Lee it intersects with Interstate 95 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Basilone
John Basilone (November 4, 1916 – February 19, 1945) was a United States Marine Corps gunnery sergeant who received the Medal of Honor for actions during the Battle for Henderson Field in the Guadalcanal campaign, and the Navy Cross posthumously for extraordinary heroism during the Battle of Iwo Jima. He was the only enlisted Marine to receive both of these decorations in World War II. He enlisted in the Marine Corps on June 3, 1940, after serving three years in the United States Army with duty in the Philippines. He was deployed to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and in August 1942, he took part in the invasion of Guadalcanal. In October, he and the two machine-gun sections under his command held off an attack by a numerically far superior Japanese force. He was one of only three Marines in that group to survive. His actions at Guadalcanal earned him the Medal of Honor. In February 1945, he was killed in action on the first day of the invasion of Iwo Jima, after he single-handedly de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raritan River Greenway
The Raritan River Greenway is a proposed path in Somerset County, New Jersey that would link Branchburg Township to the East Coast Greenway with the Delaware and Raritan Canal trail in South Bound Brook. Raritan River Greenway is a priority park for Somerset County. Completed sections The longest completed section of the Raritan River Greenway is three miles (5 km) long and runs from a hill near Red Oak Way in Bridgewater to Nevius Street in Raritan. The hill at an elevation of seventy feet has a nice view of south side of the Raritan River. The dirt path from the top of the hill to a small parking lot (at the driveway for the Sellars Maintenance Facility on Old York Road) is part of county property that is undeveloped. Through the fence of the parking lot is the developed part of the trail, beginning as a gravel pathway bound by the Raritan Water Power Canal and the Raritan River. This part of the trail is in Duke Island Park in Bridgewater. Less than a quarter mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Crossings Of The Raritan River
This is a list of road/highway and railroad, rail crossings of the Raritan River from the mouth at Raritan Bay upstream. It also includes crossings of its two branches: the North Branch Raritan River and the South Branch Raritan River. Crossings See also * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Crossings of the Raritan River Bridges in New Jersey Crossings of the Raritan River, * Lists of river crossings in New Jersey, R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Branch Raritan River
The North Branch Raritan River is a tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey.Gertler, Edward. ''Garden State Canoeing'', Seneca Press, 2002. The North Branch Raritan River rises in Morris County, in eastern Mendham Borough rising out of Raritan Pond, and flows generally southward into Somerset County, around the southern end of the Watchung Mountains. At its end, it forms the border between Bridgewater and Branchburg Townships, and upon reaching the border of Hillsborough Township, joins the South Branch Raritan River to form the main Raritan River, which generally flows eastward from that point. This area where the branches converge was called "Tucca-Ramma-Hacking" by the Lenape, meaning the flowing together of water. It was called "Two Bridges" by the early European settlers, after a set of bridges built in 1733 that met at a small island (the island has washed away over time) on the North Branch.New Jersey Historical Society. "Proceedings of the New Jersey Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
