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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 593 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as
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Town of Union)
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town of Hudson county, New Jersey, U.S.A., on the Hudson
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river, adjoining West
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Hoboken and
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Weehawken, and opposite New York City . Pop . (1900), 15,187, of whom 5179 were
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foreign-born; (1910 U.S. census) 21,023 . In the foreign element Germans predominate . The town is served by the
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railways passing through Weehawken and Hoboken . The
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principal manufactures are
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silk goods, shirts and malt liquors . In 1905 the factory products were valued at $3,512,451, Originally a
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part of the township of North
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Bergen, Union was incorporated as a separated township in 1861, and as a town, under the name Town of Union, in 1864 . Town of Union must not be confused with Union township (pop. in 1910, 3419), Union county, incorporated in 1808; Union township (1910, 2756), Bergen county, incorporated in 1852; Union township (1910, 982), Ocean county, incorporated in 1846; and Union town-
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ship (1910, 930), Hunterdon county, incorporated in 1853 . Union township, Camden county, became Gloucester City in 1868, and Union township, Hudson county, became West New York in 1898 .

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