Historic Photos of Newark Format:Hardcover Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin

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Historic Photos of Newark Format:Hardcover Greg Myre and Jennifer GriffinFounded in 1666 along the Passaic River by Puritans arriving from the New Haven colony farther east, Newark emerged in the nineteenth century at the forefront of industry and commerce. Benefiting from the Morris Canal, leather tanneries, breweries, banking, insurance, and other enterprises, the city attracted the best and the brightest, among them patent leather inventor Seth Boyden, voltmeter inventor Edward Weston, and a young Thomas Edison, who