Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
1895 - Hoboken

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 these steamships and the coal-docks. Several lines of horse-cars connect Hoboken with Jersey City and other towns. Pop. in 1870, 20,297; in 1880, 30,999; in 1890, 43,648.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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