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Libraries, ducks, deer, more NJ facts | Albright
Updated Jan 11, 2021;
Posted Jan 11, 2021
John Cotton Dana, 1856 - 1929, founded the Newark Library (pictured) in 1902. NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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Historically speaking, did you know that:
Curtis-Wright Corporation: Based in Lyndhurst, the Curtis -Wright Corporation was founded by the merger of the nations foremost aeronautical companies.
Czechs: The first Czechs settled in New Jersey in 1805 but it wasn’t until the late 19th century that they began to emigrate to the state in larger numbers.
Dams: New Jersey counts 1,600 dams under the direction of the State Environmental Protection Department.
John Cotton Dana: After graduating from Dartmouth College, John Cotton Dana, 1856 - 1929, went west and founded the Denver Public Library in 1889. In 1902, he founded the Newark Library and also founded the Newark Museum in 1909.
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Crossroads of a plague
The worst pandemic in a century has ravaged Newark and its Black community. It was a tragedy decades in the making.
Updated on Dec 11, 2020;
Published on Dec 10, 2020
Newark has suffered the most COVID-19 deaths and cases in New Jersey. Photo by Andre Malok | NJ Advance Media
The haunting stare was frozen on his daughter’s face.
Walter Andrews found her in the middle of the night, dazed and unseeing as she rocked back and forth on his living room floor.
“Tasha! Tasha!” he said in a loud whisper. But she merely groaned, continuing to gaze ahead vacantly.