The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-14
History of Newatk
In Capsule Form
CAPSULE NO. 3.
BY N. 7. WELLS

- 4R & M 0AfsuLhAN No :" g3HA WUS wMe# aH aWmfe
- HE FIRST Church IN Newark Is older than the town Itself The orssn.5' .
izauon vas brought from the mother colony Of New Haven ends4s -
found to be intact vhen III threen little boats were unloadedv rne a
hrt building TODD on Broad street near where 'Branned place Is now. across r
the street from the site Of tho First Pr ayt@ian Church. IT looked more Hker
9 block house than a churcha ant served the MANIFOLD purposes of FORT public As
meeting house, and place for worship The Importance OF the place held syz
the church in the history Of the town for. the hrsto century. and a half eapnessa ss
be overesimated. The history Of the First Church during that time e tins
history of Newark as - =
Among the interesting features of settlement life in that late seventeenth ssf
century day, preserved for US by pansakne investigators nons s more Is
quaint than the drummer boys or the passaic and the uses to tnph ssy
sere put, when settlers we're to be summoned forth Or public woH Of road.
bundlns. burning eea.hsooat Or other duties Of III sort two Of tbs drums e
mers would start each from IN end OF Broad street bounded then by sns
are Orange street n Clinton avenue, an walk down its length drum
ming bntheIy thu popular airs Of the day. The citizens were supposed 70 re-
spond to the call with aaerfy, but there are cases on record where's nj o.
another Q. them would explain his absence later by saying he had his ~
hobs or or cap pulled down when thu drummers passed his house, or mak
m other equally faint frontier xouse for lot being anon those present
when the public work vas going on
Newark vas still in its infancy when he work of draining and Ming Ia
the meadows was begun, SO that sreat enterprise of today is about two hun
bred and thirty years old The settlers laid rude pipes made IRON sections
of gum trees This system of drainage hd Its drawbacks and disadvantages
but it furnished a good running start for h work which may some day max
possible a Greater Newark The u tree drainage pipes were not patented,
~ 50 lar as IT has been possible to discover n one attempted to take aa-
of this fact
1t is only necessary to state that Newark boasted a church, a taverna and
srMt mill in 1876 to show what great strides it had made since he three lfi.
boats put into the pesmic from the bay ten years before II a retail business
way there vas very little stirring There were no stores, but The tow owned
a boat in which they sent their raw materials to New York an Elizabeth
WI nd brought back suh supplies is could nt be made or raised at nome
What trading was done 1T home cenered abou the Market Place, then at one
end ofw what is now Washington Park.
1t was about this time that tbs hrt schoolmaster John catin, set up
shop Before that Newark children had been worrying along without. any
regular education, picking up what earning they might here m there and in
te meeting rouse ant at HON catn proposed to teach them everything he
new in as systemaic a manner as possible and for a stipulated sum- so that
his school vas not a forpunner Of the present magnificent system Of public
schools Newark.