Belleville - Canfora, Nicole T.
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With nearly two hundred vintage photographs from public and private collections, Belleville offers rare insight into the town's explosive growth. Brimming with a rich history and local flavor that has gone largely undocumented for more than three hundred years, Belleville began as a small Dutch settlement in the 1670s and has grown into a busy suburb of 32,000 people, located only fifteen miles west of New York City. Situated on the west bank of the Passaic River, early Belleville was a center for early industry and water transportation and is noted as the birthplace of America's industrial…mehr

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With nearly two hundred vintage photographs from public and private collections, Belleville offers rare insight into the town's explosive growth. Brimming with a rich history and local flavor that has gone largely undocumented for more than three hundred years, Belleville began as a small Dutch settlement in the 1670s and has grown into a busy suburb of 32,000 people, located only fifteen miles west of New York City. Situated on the west bank of the Passaic River, early Belleville was a center for early industry and water transportation and is noted as the birthplace of America's industrial revolution. From the legendary secret tunnels running beneath the Dutch Reformed Church to the beauty of Belleville Park, which sits beside one of the largest annual cherry blossom tree displays in the nation, Belleville tells the story of an often forgotten but noteworthy era in the turbulent development of early America. Belleville shows the appeal the bustling town held for many of the nation's most influential figures, including inventor Thomas Edison and famed architect Charles Granville Jones. The town was also a notable stop on Gen. George Washington's retreat from New York City to Philadelphia during the early days of the Revolutionary War.
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Autorenporträt
Journalist and historian Nicole T. Canfora is a former reporter for the Belleville Times and is an editor on the staff of the Daily Record newspaper in Parsippany. A former Belleville resident, Canfora became interested in Belleville history while researching her own family's roots, beginning with its immigration to Belleville in the late nineteenth century.