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DOVER

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 456 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOVER  , a

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town of Morris county, New Jersey, U.S.A., on the Rockaway
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river and the Morris canal, about 40 M. by
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rail W.N.W. of
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Hoboken . Pop . (1900) 5938, of whom 947 were
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foreign-born; (1905) 6353; (1910) 7468 . The
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area of the town is 1.72 sq. m . Dover is at the junction of the main
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line and the Morris & Essex division of the
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Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railway (which has large repair shops here), and is also served by the High
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Bridge branch of the Central of New Jersey, and by an electric line connecting with neighbouring towns . The town is situated about 570 ft. above sea-level .
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Building stone, used extensively for railway bridges, and iron ore abound in the vicinity . The river furnishes good
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water-power, and the town has various manufactures, including stoves and ranges, boilers, bar iron, rivets, steel castings, rock drills, air compressors,
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silk hose and underwear, organzine or thrown silk, and overalls . The water-
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works are owned by the town, water being obtained from wells varying in
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depth from 193 to 213 ft . Dover was settled as early as 1748, and was separated from Randolph township and incorporated as a town in 1869 .

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