Historical Markers and War Memorials in Union City, New Jersey
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Embroidery Industry
Union City, NJ
Union City
The Embroidery Capital of the World
For many decades from the late nineteenth century to the last decades of the twentieth century, the embroidery and lace manufacturing industry was the . . . — — Map (db m238877) HM
Erected by the
Exempt Firemen’s
Association
of West Hoboken, N.J.
Organized Nov. 24, 1897
Commemorating the
Volunteer Fire Department
Organized Oct. 28, 1858
Disbanded April 2, 1913
Neptune Engine Co. 1 · Columbia H. & L. Co. 1 · . . . — — Map (db m238814) HM
Weehawkin Township 150 Years 1859 — 2009 Hackensack Reservoir No. 2Construction on Hackensack Water Company's Reservoir No. 2 at the southern end of the township began circa 1893 to service the Heights section of Weehawken, surrounding Union City . . . — — Map (db m239735) HM
Juan Pablo Duarte y Diez
1813 - 1876
Founder of the Dominican Republic
“Trabajemos por y para la patria, que es trabajar para nuestros hijos y para nosotros mismos”
Comite pro-busto Juan Pablo Duarte
Union City, New Jersey
Summer 2004 . . . — — Map (db m238829) HM
Liberty Plaza
Dedicated to the Men and Women
Who lost their Lives on
September 11, 2001
Mayor Brian P. Stack
Board of Commissioners
And the Citizens of Union City, New Jersey
September 11, 2007 — — Map (db m239734) HM
In Memory of
The Soldiers and Sailors
of North Hudson
Who served in the Civil War
1861 — 1865
Erected by the Grateful People of
North Hudson
1918 — — Map (db m238822) WM
In Memory of
the
Soldiers Sailors and Marines
Who fought in the War
with Spain in 1898
Erected by the
Grateful People of North Hudson
September 29, 1940 — — Map (db m238876) WM
Born in the tenement and raised on these streets of West Hoboken – (Union City), Pietro di Donato would later go on to pen the classic novel CHRIST IN CONCRETE in 1939. On Good Friday, 1923, di Donato’s bricklayer father was . . . — — Map (db m96975) HM
In Loving Memory of those Union City Citizens who lost their lives on September 11, 2001
Gary L. Bright · Jorge Luis Leon · Alejo Perez · Nancy E. Perez
Donated by:
The Leber Funeral Home
The David P. Lemagne Foundation
The Union . . . — — Map (db m238825) HM
In Memory of Those
Who made the
Supreme Sacrifice
Korean and Vietnam
Conflicts
Donated by
Grateful Citizens
Dedicated by
A.L. Saldarini, VFW Post 453
Union City, N.J. — — Map (db m238875) WM
Town of Union
1917 1919
Raffaele Agresta · Henry W. Betz · Louis Bauer · Fred Behrens · Fred A. Becker · Frank Brezovsky · Edward R. Buchlein · Jacob F. Cline Jr. · George Corvinus Jr. · Patrick Connelly · Charles A. Cusick · Maurice N. De Riso . . . — — Map (db m238869) WM
In memory of those who made the supreme sacrifice
World War II
From the Seventh Ward
Union City, N.J.
Francis M. Cottave, Jr. · Gustave Feldhaus · Charles L. Hinsch · Arthur R. Johnson · Michael L. LaRusso · Joseph C. Manfredi · James V. . . . — — Map (db m238872) WM
Roll of Honor
Dedicated to the Memory of the Men
Of West Hoboken, New Jersey
Who Gave Their Lives in the Great World War
1917-1919
Herbert Baker · Serafin Barberini · Owen Beirne · Wm. Bergdolt, Jr. · John Bracco · Walter S. Brown · John J. . . . — — Map (db m238817) WM
