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New Jersey has 21 counties. New Jersey was governed by two separate groups of proprietors as two distinct provinces, East Jersey and West Jersey, for the 28 years between 1674 and 1702. New Jersey's first counties were created as administrative districts within each province, with East Jersey split in 1675 into Bergen, Essex, Middlesex and Monmouth counties, while West Jersey's initial counties of Burlington and Salem date to 1681. The most recent county created in New Jersey was Union County, created in 1857 and named after the union of the United States

Hudson County, New Jersey

Hudson County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Jersey City
Year Organized: 1840
Square Miles: 47

Court House:

583 Newark Avenue
Justice Brennan Courthouse
Jersey City, NJ 07306-2301

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Hudson is named for Henry Hudson, the famous explorer.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Hudson County was originally called Pavonia, the land of the Peacock, after its original owner, the Dutchman Michael Pauw (Peacock). Part of the domain of the Dutch West Indies Company, the area was governed by Peter Stuyvesant, who established the town of Bergen in 1660. In 1674, all of New Amsterdam (and New Jersey) became English colonies, including Hudson County, which was then still part of Bergen County.

In 1804, Col. John Stevens laid out the “New City of Hoboken” and in the same year, counseled by Attorney Alexander Hamilton, a group of New York City lawyers bought the old ferry site of Paulus Hook (Jersey City). Steam ferries and railroads brought boom times, leading to the official establishment of Hudson as new county in 1840, the smallest in New Jersey. Following the Civil War, Hudson County became a center of industry, home to giants in the soap, tobacco, light bulb, steel, oil, elevator, and engineering fields. Though claimed by New York City, the Statue of Liberty stands in New Jersey waters, on Hudson County’s shores.

Past Lady Liberty and through Ellis Island came millions of immigrants over the next century, swelling the tiny county’s population and packing it’s ever more urbanized landscape. Hudson County became the gateway for generations of new Americans who toiled in the factories, rail lines and on the docks of industrial age America. Those waves of immigrants set the tone for a County that still proudly celebrates it diverse neighborhoods and a local cultural mosaic composed of more than a hundred nationalities.

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Bayonne	city	Incorporated Area
- East Newark	borough	Incorporated Area
- Guttenberg	town	Incorporated Area
- Harrison	town	Incorporated Area
- Hoboken	city	Incorporated Area
- Jersey City (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Kearny	town	Incorporated Area
- North Bergen	township
- Secaucus	town	Incorporated Area
- Union City	city	Incorporated Area
- Weehawken	township
- West New York	town	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resource Guide

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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of our country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."

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