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Excerpt from Jersey City and Its Historic Sites From the Minutes of the Literature Committee of the Woman's Club of Jersey City. At a meeting of the Committee January 5th, 1898, one of the subjects for the day was "Jersey City's Old Landmarks." In the discussion that followed, Miss M.Louise Edge moved that Mrs. Eaton be requested to write a short history of Jersey City, to be published by the Club: the proceeds of which to be used to erect memorial tablets on historic sites of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods. At the meeting of October 12th, 1898, Mrs. Eaton made the following report: Madam Chairman and Ladies of the Literature Committee: I take pleasure in reporting that in accordance with the request of this Committee embodied in the motion made by Miss M.Louise Edge upon January 5th, 1898, I have prepared the story of Jersey City. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.