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One of the tourist attraction at the downtown of san Francisco California is a joy ride in the traditional cable car tram Powell-manson lines, on the Powell Street of Union square. It is the oldest mechanical public transport in San Francisco which is in service since 1873.
With a small year round population, Seaside Park is a summer resort. While the town has several hotels/motels it is mostly private summer homes.
The tower of the old Central Railroad Terminal is a sharp contrast to the new buildings that line the Jersey City Waterfront.
In which the EBdubbz crew unites from all corners of the U.S. to travel and explore the wild western states and all her grandeur and glory...
Washington wrote many letters to congress explaining the poor predicament that his troops were in during his stay at the Ford Mansion. This was his place of work was in the private study, which was located on the first floor of the house.
This car was used as a motor car and regularly pulled a light trailer car until its retirement from regular service in 1913. Single-truck cars like this one were replaced by larger, more comfortable double truck cars
In fact, the army had wintered there 3 years before in 1777 following Washington's Christmas Delaware crossing and victories at Trenton and Princeton. Although far fewer troops accompanied the General the first time, the impact on the citizenry was catastrophic as nearly one quarter of the population died from small pox or dysentery. Washington, headquarterd at Arnold's Tavern on the town green, billeted 3 or 4 men in every house so that it would appear that troop presence was many times more than the few thousand actually there.
Along the Morris Canal in Jersey City is a new neighberhood that stands on an old industrial site where a 181 apartments can be found on this half mile that looks out to the Statue of Liberty.
Completed in 1837, it served as the country's center for public business and judicial activity for the remainder of the 1800's. This building also held the offices of the County Clerk and Surrogate until 1848. During the period 1837 to 1919 cases were heard by judges and juries in the courtrooms on the upper floors of the building.
It was on this spot tin 1779 that a former Revolutionary War Soldier Shepard Kollack printed The New Jersey Journal to help maintain the cause of freedom and to serve the Continental Army encamped in Morristown, NJ.
Union Station is one of the busiest and best-known places in Washington, D.C. It is visited by 32 million people each year. The terminal is served by Amtrak, MARC and VRE commuter railroads, and the Washington Metro transit system of buses and subway trains. The facility serves as the headquarters of Amtrak
These condos line the south side of the Manasquan Inlet. The inlet is one of the most used waterays in the state.
Designed to appeal to people with a passion for great food and wine the Carriage House at Natirar has been designed to showcase the talents's of the world's finest chefs, vintners, renowned food experts and illustrious culinary personalities.
Designed by architect Kenneth M. Murchison in the Beaux-Arts style, the rail and ferry terminal buildings were constructed in 1907 by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. The terminal building is listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places
This park is near the railroad station in downtown Chatham, New Jersey. A pretty bedroom community in Morris County, NJ
In a community as old and richly diverse as TBE, memories rooted in this building and in the comings and goings of its occupants have spread around the world.
The Wick House in the Morristown National Historical Park served as the quarters of Major Joseph Bloomfield of the Third New Jersey Regiment during the winter of 1776-1777. Later, it also served as the winter headquarters of General Arthur St. Clair in 1779 through 1780. The Continental Army spent that winter camped on the Wick and Kimbel Farms approximately four miles southwest of Morristown.
Some 2,230 names are inscribed on this monument and at the top is Lady Fame or Victory. This statue was sculpted by Fredrick MacMonnies.
Organized in 1834 and became Morristown's first incorporated fire department in 1867. Its fire house is believed to have been built around 1870 and is shared between the Independent and Washington Hose Companies.
Located in Monument Park in Princeton, New Jersey, this is the bell of the American Warship the USS Princeton launched in 1844. While on a pleasure cruise down the Potomac River with President Tyler and his Cabinet on-board one of her guns exploded killing the Secretaries of State and Navy along with other officers. The President was safe.
Built between 1914 and 1930, the Neo-Classical Cooper Library and the surrounding Johnson Park was donated the to the city of Camden by a local inventor and philanthropist Eldridge R. Johnson, founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company
Goldman Sachs Tower on the Jersey City waterfront that is representative of the company's leadership, its commitment to Jersey City and neighboring communities, and its growth in the 21st century.
During his stay Washington and his advisers which included Alexander Hamilton, Robert H. Harrison, Tench Tilghman, David Humphreys and James McHenry used the four rooms on the eastern side of the mansion for their bedrooms as well as their military war rooms.
In 1871, the New Jersey Midland Railroad extended track through Butler from Paterson, making an important transportation connection for both passengers and freight. The northern terminus for the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway's passenger service was located at Butler until 1966. The railroad still carries freight through Butler
Open to the public year-round, the lake, in which there is no swimming, is the home to an annual children's fishing tournament every spring, when more than 300 trout are brought from a nearby hatchery. The child who catches the largest fish wins a custom-made rod, among other prizes.
Founded in the 1700s, Chester was initally called the Town of Black River. It was a center for the farming, mining and milling industries of north western New Jersey.
These gardens host beautiful Roman Columns that are both standing and for artistic purposes ruined laying on the ground.
Richmond County Ballpark opened in 2001 and was designed by Populous. The design of the ballpark features sails at the entrances inspired by the Staten Island Ferry and the St. George Ferry Terminal,
Following the death of Luther Kountze in 1918 the family made several attempts to sell the estate. In 1925 the monks of Saint Mary’s Abbey, then in the center of the City of Newark, seeking a house of studies for young members of the community, purchased approximately four hundred acres of Delbarton, including the mansion and farm.
When my daughter told me that she was moving to Jersey City I thought that she was nuts. After all it tooks a long time to get out of here. Well it looks like she made the right move.
Prominent businessman and military figure general Joseph Cutler built this house for colonisl pstriot Silas Condict. Cutler's son Congressman Augustus Culter lived here> Augustus introduced the bill that established the U.S. Depatment of Agriculture and he is considered as the father of the free public school system.
The A. Harry Moore School in Jersey City is among the first public schools in the United States constructed for students with physical disabilities. Mayor Frank Hague named if after his friend Governor A. Harry Moore
Historic preservationists and conservationists especially honor Matilda E. Frelinghuysen memory for having bequeathed Whippany Farms to the Morris County Park Commission by keeping the interior of the mansion as it would have been when it was her summer home.
The Wildwood Tram runs the full length of the boardwalk. and is a great way to see the resort. Remember the Wildwood boardwalk is 2 mile long so relax and take a ride