. The Pennsylvania railroad: its origin, construction, condition, and connections. Embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . ven to the placewhich had, previous to that time, beendistinguished as The River. It was incor-porated as a city in 1794. The portion of the town lying immediatelyon the river is low, and the streets are nar-row, crooked, and lined principally with smallframe houses, extending for nearly half a milefrom the bridge to the landing
. The Pennsylvania railroad: its origin, construction, condition, and connections. Embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . ven to the placewhich had, previous to that time, beendistinguished as The River. It was incor-porated as a city in 1794. The portion of the town lying immediatelyon the river is low, and the streets are nar-row, crooked, and lined principally with smallframe houses, extending for nearly half a milefrom the bridge to the landings for steam-boats. Albany street is a broad, well-pavedthoroughfare, ornamented with some excel-lent buildings. The streets upon the uppershelving bank are generally wide, and thehouses neat and commodious, many of themexpensively built and surrounded by the top of the hill or bank, especiallyfrom the site of Rutgers College, there is awide prospect, terminating on the north bythe Green Brook mountains, and on the eastby Raritan bay. There is a vein of copper ore adjacent tothe city, which was formerly very extensivelyworked, but the mines have been for manyyears abandoned. New Brunswick was formerlv the northern 50 THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. ilift. terminus of theCamden and Am-boy and the south-ern terminus ofthe New JerseyRailroad, and socontinued until theconsolidation ofthe two roads in1872. Rutgers Collegeis located in thiscity, and was char-tered by KingGeorge III., ofEngland, in 1770,under the name ofQueens name waschanged by theState legislature in1825, in honor ofHenry Rutgers,one of its mostliberal benefac-tors. The institu-tion is controlledReformed Theological Seminary of thisdenommation—the first school ofthe kmd established in the UnitedStates—was founded here in striking feature of the place is theraihoad bridge, which crosses therivei, the canal, the turnpike road,and terminates m the city on a level\\ith the thud o
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