History of Hoboken, New Jersey, USA

The New York Knickerbocker Club plays the New York Club in the first baseball game at the Elysian Field in Hoboken, New Jersey. It is the first organized baseball game.

Hoboken, a beautiful post-village of North Bergen township, Hudson county, New Jersey, on the Hudson river, opposite New York, and about 2 miles above Jersey City. It is chiefly remarkable as a place of resort and recreation for the citizens of New York, and for the delightful scenery in its vicinity. It contains 4 churches, viz. a Methodist, a Baptist, a Dutch Reformed, and an Episcopal church. Population in 1853, 5527.

An accident of the most painful and alarming nature occurred between 5 and 6 o'clock last evening, at the Hoboken Ferry on the Jersey shore, by which the lives of some five hundred persons, men, women and children, were placed in peril. The ferry bridge, erected for the landing of passengers to and from Barclay street, New York, fell with a loud crash, while upward of 500 persons were standing on it, awaiting the arrival of the next steamboat. A wild cry of alarm arose, and at one time it was supposed that more than half of those on the bridge had met with watery graves. The shrieks and cries for help were heard in every direction from those struggling in the water and clinging to the bridge. The scene was truly appalling. When the news of the catastrophe reached out City it spread with great rapidity, and thousands flocked to the opposite shore in search of their friends. All sorts of exaggerated accounts were afloat, which led the people to believe there was a large number of lives...

A few minutes after the heavy rain-storm had commenced in Hoboken, about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the immense frame-work, over 400 feet in length, in course of construction on the pier of the New Hamburg Steam-ship line, in Hoboken, was struck by a tornado and entirely demolished. Over fifty men at work on the building had barely gained shelter in a building at the upper end of the pier when the crash came, or otherwise a number of lives would have been lost. The superintendent estimates the loss at $2,000. In West Hoboken Clinton Hall, a new building in course of construction, was struck by a gale of wind and completely destroyed, being leveled to the ground. Three workmen were buried in the ruins, and one was fatally injured.
The structure, which was being erected by Doric Lodge F. and A. M., of frame-work, 25 feet front, 90 feet deep, and 3 stories high, was damaged to about $4,000. The roof of a new building on Clinton avenue, Jersey City Heights, was carried bodily a block ...

Hoboken, ho-bo'ken, a city and port of entry of Hudson co, N.J., on the W. bank of the Hudson River, opposite New York City, and immediately above Jersey City. It is the eastern terminus of the Morris & Essex Railroad and of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. It contains 14 churches (1 Baptist, 2 Catholic, 1 Dutch Re formed, 3 £ 2 German, 3 Methodist, 2 Presbyterian), several academies, 6 public schools, and the Stevens Institute of Technology, which has extensive apparatus for teaching the natural sciences and their application to the industrial arts. One daily and 2 weekly newspapers are published here. Hoboken has also 2 national banks, 2 savings-banks, a hospital, several foundries and machine shops, and a large manufactory of lead-pencils. It has an extensive trade in coal, being one of the principal depots from which New York and its shipping are supplied. Six lines of European steamships start from this port. The principal industries of this place are connected with...

TWO FERRY BOATS RUINED AND MUCH WHARF PROPERTY DAMAGED BY FIERCE FLAMES - THE LOSS WILL BE OVER $500,000.

New York, Aug. 8. - Inside of three-quarters of an hour fire swept away the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company's terminal in Hoboken, seized two ferry boats and practically ruined them, and for half an hour threatened the destruction of the entire water front in the vicinity, including the Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd steamship docks, at which several big ships were lying. But, so far as known, no lives were lost.

For over an hour huge tongues of flame leaped from the wooden structures on the Lackawanna docks, lighting the New Jersey and New York water fronts. For a time it threatened a loss greater than that of the big dock fire of several years ago when the North German Lloyd piers were destroyed with a great loss of life.

Blazing ferry boats, cut from their docks, floated in the river, wandering fire ships, which for a time endangered shipping ...

Hoboken, ho'bo-ken, a city and port of entry of Hudson co., N.J., on the W. bank of the Hudson River, opposite New York city (with which it is connected by steam- ferry) and immediately N. of Jersey City. It is the eastern terminus of the Lackawanna R. Hoboken is an important industrial centre and contains several foundries and machine-shops, automobile-works, large silk-mills, sugar- factory, and a large manufactory of lead-pencils. It has an extensive trade in coal, being one of the principal depots from which New York and its shipping are supplied. Several lines of European steamships start from this port, the principal industries of which are connected with these steam ships and the coal-docks. Several lines of electric-railway connect Hoboken with Jersey City and other towns. Here are located the Stevens Institute of Technology, with extensive apparatus for teaching the physical sciences and their application to the industrial arts, the Hoboken Academy, the Academy of the Sacred...