Weehawken High School - Zenith Yearbook (Weehawken, NJ)

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Weehawken High School now stands at the spot of this great amphitheatre which was the largest of its size in the United States in 1892. 1926 Electric ferries opened. 1926 Woodrow Wilson High School opened. 1926 Volunteer Fire Department disbanded, full paid department installed. 1928 Roosevelt School opened. 1928 October 5th — Robert Reiner first Wee- hawken citizen to cross Atlantic Ocean as passenger aboard Dirigible Graf Zeppelin ' 1928 December 26th—Municipal Building, No. 400 Park Ave., opened. 1930 Population 14,807. 1930 First Police Patrol Wagon installed. 1930 Hamilton Plaza completed. 1931 November 11th — Oulton-Kraft Post No. 1923, Veterans of Foreign Wars, organ ized. 1934 March 15th — 75th birthday of Township of Weehawken. 1934 March 20th — Contract for vehicular tun- nel under Hudson River from Wee- hawken to N.Y.C. let to Mason Hanger Co. of N. Y. for $5,452,300. 1934 April 11th — Actual work begun on exca- vating tunnel shaft on the east side of Palisades beneath Kingswood Ave. 1934 Willow Ave. R. R. crossing viaduct begun. 1935 July 2nd — New Alexander Hamilton bust erected. 1937 December 22nd—Lincoln Tunnel officially opened for business. 1938 New traffic lights on Park Avenue be- tween Pleasant Avenue and 7th Street put into operation.

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Weehawken's first church was located on Willow Avenue. Rev. Robert Proudfit was the first Pastor. This structure, which was some two hundred feet high and about 800 feet long, is now covered by a concrete arc on Boulevard East and Liberty Place. 1884 January 1st—Ferryboat Newburg first boat to operate between 42nd Street. New York, and Weehawken. 1886 St. Lawrence Parish founded. 1887 Weehawken Elevators built (Eldorado Park). 1890 Population 1,943. 1890 First modern school building built — School No. 1. 1892 First trolley car in North Hudson open ated on Bullsferry Road. 1893 Construction of Boulevard East begun, Weehawken Section. 1894 Hamilton Monument erected on Hamil- ton Ave., south of Blvd. East. 1894 Saint Lawrence parochial school built. 1895 First Electric Street Arc Light installed. 1896 School No. 2 built, 1897 Weehawken Elevators dismantled. 1898 Fire Bell Towers erected. 1900 Population 5,325 1900 Emile Grauert appointed to his first pub- lic office — Assessment Commissioner. 1901 Park Methodist Church organized — Rev George N. Osman, first Pastor. 1902 School No. 3 opened. 1904 Township Hall moved from 1940 Park Ave. to 309 Park Ave. 1907 Patrick McGann appointed Chief of Police, first regular uniformed chief. 1909 Weehawken voted against consolidation of North Hudson. 1910 Population 11,228. 1910 North Hudson Hospital moved to Wee hawken from Union Hill. 1912 First modern motor driven fire engine purchased. 1912 John J. Eagan first citizen of Weehawken to be elected to Congress. 1913 Clifton Chapel opened — Rev. Dumont Conklin, first Pastor. 1915 Thomas F. Martin, first citizen of Wee- hawken appointed Secretary of State of New Jersey. 1915 Grauert Causeway built. 1915 August 1st—Building of Good Sheperd Church started. 1917 Motor driven hose wagon installed in Palisade Hose Co. (Engine No. 2) 1919 Weehawken Post, American Legion, or- ganized June 25th. 1919 Motor driven engine installed in Baldwin Hose Co. (Engine No. 1) 1920 Population 14,485. 1922 St. Olav, Swedish Church, organized. 1923 June 4th — The Park Trust Co , Wee hawken's first bank, opened. 1923 June 11th—Weehawken Lodge, B.P.O.E., organized. 1923 John M. Hannan, first citizen of Wee- hawken to be elected sheriff. 1924 March 4 th — Weehawken votes against consolidation of North Hudson. 1926 January 18th — Hamilton National Bank opened. In 1900, the Denning Duer Mansion stood about where the Junior High School is now. 143

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The original monument at the Weehawken dueling ground. 1938 March 27th — New service buses put into operation on Park Avenue. 1938 November 23rd—Webster School closed to be torn down to make way for new school. 1938 December 15th—Hamilton School closed to be torn down to make way for new school. 1940 October 15th — New Daniel Webster School dedicated. 1940 October 28th — New Weehawken High • School, replacing Hamilton School, dedi- cated. 1942 June 1st — Weehawken's first Public Li- brary opened. 1943 July llfh — World War No. 2 “Honor Roll dedicated. 1945 February 1st — North Tube, Lincoln Tun- nel, opened to public. 1946 Population 14,414. 1946 July 1st—Weehawken Branch, Union City Post Office opened. 1953 Third tube of Lincoln Tunnel started. 1954 First policewoman (special) appointed. 1957 Last train of bankrupt N. Y.-Ontario Western Railroad pulled out of Wee- hawken, marking end of 80 year old rail- road. 1956 Last bolt in third tube in Lincoln Tunnel installed. 1959 100th anniversary of Weehawken. 145 £ In 1892 this fountain, the largest and most costly in America, stood in the vicinity of what is now Eldorado Place, west of Boulevard East. This is the finest fountain of this kind in the United States. The original is in Rome, Italy. Today still can be seen some of the gargoyles. They are on fences surrounding the houses on the northwest comer of Eldorado Place and Boule- vard East.