A brief history of Woodbridge, New Jersey / Phill Provance ; original photographs by Michael Provance.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Provance, Phill, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woodbridge (N.J.)--History.

Woodbridge (N.J.).

Physical Description:

175 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : History Press, 2019.

Contents:

Chapter I So, Where's the Wooden Bridge?: Prehistory to the Township Charter p. 17

The Time Before Landing: Prehistoric Woodbridge and the Lenni-Lenape p. 18

Braving the New World: European Settlement in Woodbridge p. 23

Seek and Ye Shall Find: Woodbridge's Search for a Minister p. 27

Breaking. New Ground: Woodbridge as It Appeared in the Colonial Period p. 40

Chapter II Setting Boundaries: Border Disputes, Land Wars and the Sonmans Affair p. 44

Making the Point, Part I: The Border Dispute with Perth Amboy and the Land Wars p. 47

Making the Pointy Part II: Sonmans-Stelle and the Blind Tax p. 55

Chapter III Stake a Revolution: Woodbridge in the Era of Discontent p. 65

Wars and Rumors of Wars: The Revolution Comes to Woodbridge p. 74

Chapter IV The New Republic: The War of 1812 through the Progressive Era p. 99

The Peculiar Institution: Slavery, Quakers and Abolitionism in Woodbridge p. 102

These Honored Dead: Woodbridge and the Civil War p. 106

Barons and Barrons: Industrialization, the Gilded Age, Immigration and the Progressives p. 113

Chapter V Modern Living: Woodbridge from the Great War to Today p. 134

The Enemy Beyond: The World Wars, the Roaring '20s and the Great Depression p. 136

The End of History: Woodbridge in the Postwar Era p. 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1467135852

9781467135856

OCLC:

1076551333

Publisher Number:

99980828125