The Newark Experience

Historical Map of Newark, New Jersey, 1666-1916
Compiled for the 250th celebration by Edward S. Rankin, C.E., August 1916, revised January 1918.

The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries 1606-1968

John P. Snyder. Trenton, Bureau of Geology and Topography, 1969. Reprinted New Jersey Geological Survey, 2004.

"The Bounds of Newark: Tract, Township and City,"

John P. Snyder. New Jersey History 86(2), Summer 1968, 92-105.

Newark's geographical boundaries, 1667-1967. Available?

Indian Trails and City Streets

Edward S. Rankin. Montclair, N.J., The Globe Press, 1927.

Part I.: The Old Newark. Part II: Stories of Newark Streets.

Rankin was Newark's Chief Engineer in the Division of Sewers between 1929 and 1945. In his essay on "Prehistoric Highways" [pp.75-79] Rankin proposes that Newark's earliest streets were laid out over what were originally Indian trails. Available?

Running Brooks and Other Sketches of Early Newark.

Edward S. Rankin. Somerville, N.J., Unionist-Gazette, 1930. Available?

"Notes on Newark's Urban History,"

Jacques Gubler. Architecture et comportement/Architecture & Behaviour 4(2), 1988, 157-174.

"The originality of Newark's city plan lies in the way which the colonial settlement has been superimposed upon the Indian land pattern." Expands on the theory of Edward Rankin.