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Title: Trolley exploring : an electric railroad guide to historic & picturesque places about New York, New Jersey, and New England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Childe, Cromwell
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Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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across on the ferry of Arthur Kill and thencetwo miles by trolley up to Elizabeths centre. From New York,however, this is not at all a roundabout way. Its cost from JerseyCity would be but 5 cents more (25 cents), and it would take even alittle less time. (See R^ovite 57.) On the way to Elizabeth, while yet in Broad street, the site of theold Gouverneur Mansion is passed, where Washington Irvingstayed with Archer Gilford and wrote his Salmagundi.11 The car also passes (20 minutes journey away from Broad streetcorner), just as the meadows are reached, one of the new chain ofEssex County parks,Wequachic Reser-vation. This especialpark has had less doneto it than the othersof the system, but it iseven now a fine pleas-ure ground. It willhave a speedway and alake when completed. Elizabeth is one ofthe oldest of cities,brimful of Colonial andRevolutionary memo-ries. Princeton Col-lege, as has been said, Wallace house, somerville, n.j., Washingtonswas founded here. headquarters, 1778-1779,
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16 Trolley Exploring. Here began the historic Kings Highway that ran to Philadelphia.The old First Presbyterian Church in Elizabeth is very nearly as oldas is that of Newark, and the Episcopal Church, St. Johns, datesback to 1708. Its burial ground has been famous for generationsfor the graves of notable New York families its few acres contain. For Elizabeth was for many years a town of Colonial and earlyAmerican fashion. Its traditions are the highest and the most ro-mantic. It was from Elizabeth that George Washington embarkedfor New York on the occasion of his inauguration as president. Thelanding stage was at the foot of Elizabeth avenue, then Water street. There are still standing of the great Colonial mansions, Abyssinia(at the corner of Elizabeth avenue and Fifth street), and Ursino.Abyssinia is now appropriately named, since it has fallenthrough the years until it has become a negro tenementhouse. But generations ago it was one of the great man-sions of the country. Here came

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