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Term: Jersey City

Located in NE New Jersey on Upper New York Bay and Hudson River across from New York City; "Light-Horse Harry" Lee defeated British here in American Revolutionary War; important station on Underground Railroad; site of Black Tom explosion 1916.

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Pathhead, Scotland, 1822 - 1890, Jersey City, New Jersey