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The Newark Experience

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Newark Chronology: 1666-1999
From the Knowing Newark site.
City of Newark, NJ
The official municipal site.
Newark Neighborhoods
Brief overview of each Newark ward, including some historical information.
Lincoln Park: A Brief History
Catherine Wall and Diane Hartelius, Newark, N.J., Integrity, Inc., 1976?. Available?
Community Survey of Woodside
Helen Wallace, 1954.
Newark Ward Boundaries 2000
Newark Landmark Treasures: A Guide to the Landmark Buildings, Parks, Public Art & Historic Districts in New Jersey's Metropolis
Mark W. Gordon and Anthony Schuman, editors. Newark, Newark Preservation and Landmarks Committee, 2016. Available?
Newark Landmarks
List of Newark sites (historic districts, buildings, parks, cemeteries, and statuary) included on the National and New Jersey Registers of Historic Places. The National Register of Historic Places Inventory for Newark, which contains detailed information for each historic site, has been digitized and is available from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
100 Things to do in Newark Before You Die
Lauren Craig. Saint Louis, Mo. Reedy Press, 2017. Available?
A Day in the Life of Newark: An Exhibit of Photographs and Accompanying Narratives by Students of the Newark Public Schools Depicting Images Seen Around the City of Newark, New Jersey
Newark, N.J., Newark Public Schools, 2004.
Dana Call Number: F144 .N6D3 2004 [NEWARK plus FOLIO]  Available?
Old Newark
Glen Geisheimer's treasure trove of information on Newark since its inception to the present. "Historical Menu" includes links to photographs (2000+), biographies, business histories, cemetaries, maps, newspaper lists, census information (including lists of orphanage residents), a street and ward index, and indexes to Newark births and marriages. The Your Newark Memories page has over 900 narratives of Newark in former times, while the Newark Immigrants section includes basic information on the history of Newark's Chinese, German, Italian, Irish, and Jewish settlers. Searchable.
Knowing Newark
The late Charles Cummings "Knowing Newark" columns, which appeared in the Newark Star-Ledger from March 7, 1996 to December 29, 2005, offer a wealth of information on the history, people, events, institutions, customs, and physical environment of Newark. These have now been digitized by the Newark Public Library and are available as a searchable database.
Historic Newark: A Collection of the Facts & Traditions About the Most Interesting Sites.
Fidelity Union Trust Company. Newark, 1916.
Dana Call Number: F144 .N6F45 [NEWARK plus STACKS]  Available?
Newark: A Series of Engravings on Wood by Rudolph Ruzicka
Walter Prichard Eaton. Newark, N.J., The Carteret Book Club, 1917. Available?
Newark in Focus: A Profile from Census 2000 Part 1. Part 2.
Washington, D.C., Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, 2003.
A Living Cities: The National Community Development Initiative databook. Looks at Newark in the context of the 23 cities in the Living Cities group, as well as within the largest 100 cities in the nation. Demographic and economic data pertaining to population, race and ethnicity, immigration, age, households and families, education, work, commuting, income and poverty, and housing.