Every NYC borough has a Main Street and a Broadway.
In Manhattan, Broadway runs north from Bowling Green and, under a variety of names, runs north in NY State almost all the way to the Canadian border. Other than a few other aboriginal roads such as the Bowery and St. Nicholas Ave., it’s one of the few roads that predated the colonial era that’s still in use on Manhattan Island; it was used by the Lenape Indians before the Dutch arrived, and was probably in use by the buffalo before the Native-Americans arrived. It is “broad” in a physical sense only when you get north of Columbus Circle it’s of average width south of that, and called Broadway (Brede-weg) because it was wide in comparison to the narrow cart paths of New Amsterdam that were laid out when the area was first colonized in the 1620s. In the 2000s, traffic engineers have rendered Broadway as no longer a completely uninterrupted road, and it’s a pedestrian plaza for parts of Times Square and Herald Square.
Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catherine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763 (Dear America) by Osborne, Mary Pope at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 0590134620 - ISBN 13: 9780590134620 - Scholastic - 1998 - Hardcover
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Updated Jan 18, 2021;
Posted Jan 18, 2021
New Jersey played a important role in the early discovery of dinosaurs. The first dinosaur remains discovered in North America were found in New Jersey; a thigh bone in 1787. The first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton was also found in New Jersey in 1838: Hadrosaurus (pictured).
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Descendants of Founders of New Jersey: The Descendants of Founders of New Jersey is a fellowship of people who can prove they are descendants of settlers of New Jersey in the 17th century. The group was founded in 1987.
RIDLEY TOWNSHIP â Ridley High Schoolâs nickname âGreen Raidersâ will remain, according to a resolution adopted by Ridley School Board at a recent meeting.
The board action took place in response to requests from some people that the reference to the school s Green Raiders nickname be removed from the school, along with its depiction of an Indian brave as the school mascot.
âWe havenât had a mascot in several years,â said Ridley School District Superintendent Lee Ann Wentzel. âThe âRocking Râ is our logo.â
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Research of the nickname shows that the name âGreen Raidersâ dates back to the 1935 Ridley yearbook âArchive,â that tells the story of a student who selected the name Raiders to honor the Lenni Lenape Indians who settled in the area long before anyone else arrived. The school colors of green and white were established around the same time the high school opened.