The New Jersey Historical Society Subject Index
The New Jersey Historical Society Library Collection of Vertical Files also includes Family Vertical Files, Biography Vertical Files, and Newark Vertical Files.
Nabisco
See: RJR Nabisco
Narcotics, Illegal
See: Substance Abuse
National Biscuit Co.
See: RJR Nabisco
National Defense
National Guard
National History Day
National Register of Historic Places (Essex County)
National Security
Native Americans
See also: Lenape Indians
Nature
Nauvoo (Monmouth County)
Navesink (Monmouth County)
Navesink Highlands
Navesink River
Navesink
Twin Lights Lighthouse, Atlantic Highlands
See
also: Lighthouses; Marine/Maritime
Navigation
See also: Marine/Maritime
Navy
See also: Marine/Maritime; Military
Nazi Party
Negroes
See: African Americans
Neptune (Monmouth County)
Neshanic Station (Somerset County)
Netcong (Morris County)
New Barbados Neck
New Bridge (Bergen County)
New Brunswick (Middlesex County)
New Dover (Middlesex County)
New Eqypt (Ocean County)
New Germantown (Hunterdon County)
New Germany
See: Folsom
New Gretna (Burlington County)
New Hampton (Hunterdon County)
New Jersey (Battleship)
See: Battleship New Jersey
New Jersey Academy of Science
New
Jersey Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society
New Jersey Agricultural Society
New
Jersey Anti-Slavery Society
See: Manuscript Group 134, New Jersey Anti-Slavery Society Records
New Jersey Association of County Cultural and Heritage Commissions
New Jersey Audobon Society
New Jersey Automobile Club
New Jersey Bell
New Jersey Blues
New Jersey Business & Industry Association
New Jersey Botanical Garden at Skylands
New Jersey Boystown
See: Boystown
New Jersey City University
New Jersey Civil War Commission
New Jersey Classical Association
New Jersey Coast Line Railroad
New Jersey College of Pharmacy
See also: Rutgers; Pharmacies
New Jersey Committee of the Humanities
New Jersey Day
New Jersey Department of Labor and Industry
New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles “DMV”
See: Department of Motor Vehicles (NJ State)
New Jersey Department of Transportation
New Jersey — Description and Travel
New Jersey — Elections
New Jersey Festival of Ballooning
See: Balloons
New Jersey Fire Museum, South Orange
See also: Firefighters; Fires
New Jersey “Firsts”
New Jersey Hall of Fame
New Jersey Historical Commission
New Jersey Historical Congress
New Jersey Historical Society
New Jersey Historical Society Antiques Show
New Jersey Historical Society Associates (formerly the Woman’s Branch)
New Jersey Historical Society Awards
New Jersey Historical Society Board of Governors/Trustees
New Jersey Historical Society Charter
New Jersey Historical Society Dinner Dance (Annual Gala)
New Jersey Historical Society Education Department
New Jersey Historical Society Essex Club
New Jersey Historical Society Exhibits
New Jersey Historical Society Family History-Genealogy Club
New Jersey Historical Society Jerseyman
New Jersey Historical Society Library
New Jersey Historical Society (Morven)
New Jersey Historical Society Museum
New Jersey Historical Society Presidents
New Jersey Historical Society Publications
New Jersey Historical Society Seal
New Jersey Historical Society Tours
New Jersey History Partnership Project
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark (NJIT)
New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame
New Jersey Jazz Society
See: Jazz
New Jersey Library Association (NJLA)
New Jersey Lighthouse Society
See also: Lighthouses
New Jersey Municipal Management Association
New Jersey Music Educators Association
New Jersey Network (NJN)
New Jersey Nicknames
New Jersey Opera Institute
See: Opera
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)
New Jersey Pinelands Commission
New Jersey Postal History Society
New Jersey Press Association
New Jersey Shakespeare Festival
See also: Theater
New Jersey State Archives
New
Jersey State Bird (Eastern Goldfinch)
See: Birds; State Symbols — NJ
New
Jersey State Colors (Buff and Jersey Blue)
See: State Symbols — NJ
New Jersey State Council of the Arts
New
Jersey State Dance (Square Dance)
See: Dance
See: State Symbols — NJ
New
Jersey State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs
See also: African American Women
New
Jersey State Fish (Brook Trout)
See: Fish and
Fishing; State Symbols — NJ
New Jersey State Flag
See: State Symbols — NJ
New
Jersey State Flower (Violet)
See: Flowers; State Symbols — NJ
New Jersey State
Government and Administration
New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton
New
Jersey State Insect (Honey Bee)
See: Bees & Beekeeping; State Symbols — NJ
New Jersey State Museum
New Jersey State Normal School at Paterson
See: William Paterson University
New Jersey State
Opera
See also: Opera
New
Jersey State Police
See also: Police; Racial Profiling
New Jersey State Prison
New
Jersey State Seal
See: State Symbols — NJ
New
Jersey State Shell (Knobbed Whelk)
See: Sea Shells; State Symbols — NJ
New
Jersey State Symbols
See: State Symbols — NJ
New Jersey State Teachers College at Paterson
See: William Paterson University
New
Jersey State Trees (Red Oak and Dogwood)
See: State Symbols — NJ; Trees
New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
See also: Music
New Jersey Transit (NJ Transit)
See also: Public Service Co., Newark
New Jersey Transport Heritage Center
New Jersey Turnpike
New Jersey Urban League
New Jersey Zinc & Iron Company, Newark
New Jersey Zouaves
New Kuban (Atlantic County)
New Market (Middlesex County)
New Milford (Bergen County)
New Orange (Union County)
See also: Kenilworth (New Orange became Kenilworth in 1907)
New Providence (Union County)
New Providence Historical Society
New Sweden
New Vernon (Morris County)
New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad (a.k.a. the “Susie Q” Railroad)
Newark
Newfield (Gloucester County)
Newfoundland
Newport (Cumberland County)
Newspapers (articles about newspapers)
Newton (Sussex County)
Nobel Prize
Nolan’s Point Amusement Park, Lake Hopatcong
North Arlington (Bergen County)
North Bergen (Hudson County)
North Branch (Somerset County)
North Brunswick Township (Middlesex County)
North Caldwell (Essex County)
North Hackensack (Bergen County)
North Haledon (Passaic County)
North Hardyston (Sussex County)
North Hudson County Railway
North Jersey Electric Railway Historical Society
North Plainfield (Somerset County)
North West Jersey Hi-Railers Model Train Club
North Wildwood (Cape May County)
Northern Valley
Northfield (Essex County)
Northvale (Bergen County)
Norton (Hunterdon County)
Norwood (Bergen County)
Nuclear Energy
See also: Salem Nuclear Generating Station
Nudist Colonies
Nursing
Nutley (Essex County)
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with A
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with B
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with C
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with D
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with E
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with F
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with G
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with H
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with I
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with J
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with K
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with L
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with M
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with N
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with O
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with P
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with Q
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with R
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with S
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with T
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with U
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with V
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with W
Obituaries — Surnames beginning with X, Y, Z
Ocean City (Cape May County)
See also: Sindia
Ocean County
See also: Barnegat Lighthouse
Ocean County College (Toms River)
Ocean County Cultural & Heritage Commission
Ocean County Historical Society
Ocean Gate
Ocean Grove (Monmouth County)
Ocean Township (Monmouth County)
Ocean View (Cape May County)
Oceanville (Atlantic County)
Ogdensburg (Sussex County)
Oil and Gas
“Old Barney”
See:
Barnegat Lighthouse
Old Boonton
Old Bridge (Middlesex County)
Old First Presbyterian Church on the Green, Bloomfield
See: Historic Churches – Bloomfield
Old Manahawkin Baptist Church Graveyard
Old Methodst Cemetary
Old Mine Road (Sussex County)
Old Parsnip
See: Old Boonton
Old Salem Road
See: Roads
Old Tappan (Bergen County)
Old Tennant Church, Freehold
See: Historic Churches – Freehold
Oldman’s Creek (Gloucester County)
See also: Moravians
Oldwick (Hunterdon County)
Olive Branch Petition (1775 American Congress to George III)
Olympic Park, Irvington (Amusement Park)
Olympic Sports
See also: Special Olympics
Ong’s Hat (Burlington County)
Open Space (Land Preservation)
Opera
See also: New Jersey State Opera; Music; Opera Festival of New Jersey
Opera Festival of New Jersey
See also: Music; Opera
Oradell (Bergen County)
Oral History
Orange (Essex County)
Orange Hospitals
Orchestras
Organizations
See: Associations
Organized Crime
See also: Crime; Criminal Justice; DeCavalcante Crime Family; Gambino Crime Family; Genovese Crime Family; Lucchese Crime Family; Scarfo Crime Family; Sopranos
Organs & Organists
Orphanages
Ortley (Ocean County)
Othello (Cumberland County)
Otis Elevator Company, Harrison
Overlook Hospital, Summit
Owens-Illinois Glass Company
Oxford (Warren County)
Oysters
P. Ballantine & Sons, Newark (Brewery)
PAAS
Pabst Brewery
Pageants
Pageants
See also: Miss America Pageant; Mr. Male America Pageant
Pahaquarry Township (Warren County)
Pakistanis in NJ
Palisades, the
Palisades Amusement Park, Palisades
Palisades Park (Bergen County)
Pals Cabin Restaurant, West Orange
Panther Valley
See: Allmuchy Township
Panzer College
Papkating (Sussex County)
Paper Making
Parades
Paramus (Bergen County)
See also: Dunderhook
Parcel Delivery Co., Newark
Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, Bloomfield
See: Bloomfield Historic Churches
Park Methodist Church, Bloomfield
See: Bloomfield Historic Churches
Park Ridge (Bergen County)
Parks
See also: Essex County Parks
Parsippany-Troy Hills
Passaic (Passaic County)
Passaic Boat Club
Passaic County Historical Society
Passaic Falls
Passaic River
See also: Rivers
Passaic River Basin
Passaic Township (Morris County)
Passaic Valley Sewer
Patents
Paterson (Passaic County)
See also: Garret Mountain; Great Falls Historic District; Paterson General Hospital; Paterson Museum; St. Joseph’s Hospital
Paterson City Normal School
See: William Paterson University
Paterson General Hospital
Paterson Museum
Paterson State College
See: William Paterson University
PATH trains
Pattenburg (Hunterdon County)
Pattern Book Architecture
See: Kit Houses
Peace Corps
Peachtree Valley Line
See: “Rockaway Valley Railroad
Peapack (Somerset County)
Pedricktown (Salem County)
Pemberton (Burlington County)
Pennington (Mercer County)
Pennsauken (Camden County)
Pennsville (Salem County)
See also: Finns Point Lighthouse
Pennsylvania Railroad
Penny Pot (Atlantic County)
People’s Express (Continental)
Pequannock (Morris County)
Pequannock Watershed
Perrineville (Monmouth County)
Perryville (Hunterdon County)
Persian Gulf War
Perth Amboy (Middlesex County)
Peters Valley (Sussex County)
Petersburg
Petrochemicals
Phalanx (Monmouth County)
Pharmacies
Phillips Barn
See: Howell Living History Farm
Phillisburg (Warren County)
Photography
Picatinny Arsenal
Picatinny Powder Depot
See: Picatinny Arsenal
Pilesgrove (Salem County)
Pine Barrens
See also: New Jersey Pinelands Commission
Pine Beach (Ocean County)
Pine Brook
Pine Creek Railroad
Pirates
Piscataway (Middlesex County)
Piscataway Register of Births 1663-1793
Pitman (Gloucester County)
Pittsgrove (Salem County)
Pittstown (Hunterdon County)
Place Names
Plainfield (Union County)
Plainfield Burying Ground, Friends Meeting House (Plainfield)
Plainsboro (Middlesex County)
Planned Communities
See: Allamuchy Township (Panther Valley); Alliance; Farmingdale; Lake Mohawk; Lebanon Township (Green Acres); Mountain Lakes; Phalanx; Radburn; Roosevelt; Woodbine
Plants
Pleasant Hill (Morris County)
Pleasant Mills (Atlantic County)
Pleasant Run (Hunterdon County)
Pleasant Valley (Monmouth County)
Pleasantville
Pluckemin (Somerset County)
PNC Bank Arts Center
Poetry
See also: Biography V/F Whitman, Walt; Poets; Walt Whitman Association; Writing/Literature
Poets
See also: Authors; Biography V/F Ginsburg, Allen; Biography V/F Muldoon, Paul; Biography V/F Pinsky, Robert (U.S. Poet Laureate); Biography V/F Whitman, Walt; Poetry; Writing/Literature
Police
See also: New Jersey State Police
Police Clubs
See Lignum Vitae
Politics and Government
See also: NJ State Government and Administration
Politics and Government — Political Rights
Politics and Government — Women
See: Women — Politics and Government
Pollution
Pomona (Atlantic County)
Pompton (Passaic County)
Pompton Lakes (Passaic County)
Pompton Plains (Morris County)
Pompton River
Population
Port Authority of NY and NJ
Port Authority Trans Hudson
See: PATH trains
Port Elizabeth
Port Monmouth (Monmouth County)
Port Morris (Morris County)
Port Murray (Warren County)
Port Newark
Port Reading (Middlesex County)
Portland Cement
See: Edison Portland Cement Company
Ports
Portuguese in NJ
Post Offices
Postage Stamps
See also: New Jersey Postal History Society
Postal Service
Postcards
See also: NJHS Photo Collections
Potterstown (Hunterdon County)
Pottersville (Hunterdon County)
Pottery/Porcelain
See also: Lenox China
Pottery/Porcelain — Terracotta
Poultry
Preakness (Passaic County)
Presby Memorial Iris Gardens, Montclair
Presbyterian Church
See also: Bloomfield Historic Churches; Cohansey Compact; First Presbyterian Church on the Green, Bloomfield (“Old First”); Old Tennent Church, Freehold
Preservation New Jersey
Princeton (Battle)
See: Battle of Princeton
Princeton (Mercer County)
See also: Battle of Princeton; Drumthwacket; Drumthwacket (NJ Historical Society); Morven; Princeton’s African American Community; Princeton University; Rockingham Historic Site; Westminster Choir College
Princeton (U.S. Battleship)
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton University, Princeton
Princeton’s African American Community
See: African American Communities
Printing
Prisons and Reformatories
Prohibition
See also: Alcoholic Beverages
Property
See: Real Estate
Proprietors
See: Board of Proprietors
Protests
See: Demonstrations
Prudential Insurance Co., Newark
Public Service Co., Newark
See also: New Jersey Transit (NJ Transit)
Public Utilities
Publishers
Pulitzer Prize Winners (from New Jersey)
Quaker Baptists
See: Rogerene/ Rogerine Baptists
Quaker Bridge
Quakertown (Hunterdon County)
Quakers
See also: Plainfield Burying Ground; Salem Monthly Meeting
Quarries
Quilts & Quilting
Quinton (Salem County)
Rabbinical College of America
Race Riots in NJ
Racing (Car)
Racing (Horses)
See: Horseracing
Racism
See also: Civil Rights; New Jersey State Police
Radar
Radburn (Bergen County)
See also: Fairlawn
Radio
Radio Corporation of America
Radio Hall of Fame
Radon in Montclair
Rahway (Union County)
Rahway River
See also: Rivers
Rahway Valley Railroad
Railcars
See: Locomotives & Railcars
Railroad Museums
See also: Whippany Railroad Museum
Railroad Stations
Railroadians of America
Railroads
See also: Black River & Western Railroad; Blue Comet Train; Camden and Amboy Railroad; Cape May Seashore Lines; Central Railroad of New Jersey; Electric Railroads; Erie Lackawanna Railroad; Lackawanna Railroad; Light Rail; Lindenwold Hi-Speed Transit Line; Locomotives & Railcars; Model Railroads; Monorails; Morris & Essex Railroad; Morris County Central Railroad; Morristown & Erie Railway; New Jersey Coast Line; New Jersey Transit; New York, Susquenna & Western Railroad; North Hudson County Railway; PATH Trains; Pennsylvania Railroad; Pine Creek Railroad; Railroad Museums; Railroad Stations; Rockaway Valley Railroad; Whippany Railway Museum; Short Line Railroads; Whippany-Toonerville Railroad
Railroads (Articles by John Cunningham)
Ralston (Morris County)
Ramapo College
Ramapo Fault
Ramapo Mountain People
See: Jackson Whites
Ramapo Mountains
Ramapo River
See also: Rivers
Ramapo Tract
Ramsey (Bergen County)
Ramsey Sayer House, Upper Saddle River
See: Upper Saddle River Historical Society
Rancocas (Burlington County)
Randolph Township (Morris County)
Raritan (Somerset County)
See also: Raritan Valley Hospital
Raritan Arsenal
Raritan River
See also: Rivers
Raritan Township
See: Edison Township
Raritan Valley Community College
Raritan Valley Hospital, Raritan
RCA
See: Radio Corporation of America
Readington (Hunterdon County)
Real Estate
Reaville (Hunterdon County)
Recreation
Recycling
Red Bank (Gloucester County)
Red Bank (Monmouth County)
Red Cross
See: American Red Cross in New Jersey
Red
Oak (NJ State Tree)
See: State Symbols — NJ
Redistricting
Reeves-Reed Arboretum, Summit
Reformed Dutch Church in America, The
Regina Corporation
Regional Alliance for Preservation
Regional Planning
Religion
See also: Baptists; Buddhists; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons); Episcopal Church; Hinduism; Huguenots; Judaism & Jews; Lutheran Church; Methodist Church; Millerites; Muslims; New Brunswick Theological Seminary; Presbyterian Church; Princeton Theological Seminary; Quakers; Reformed (Dutch) Church in America; Rogerene/Rogerine Baptists; Roman Catholicism; Shakers
Reptiles
Research
Reservoirs
Restaurants and Diners
Revolution
See: American Revolution
Rheingold, Orange (Brewery)
Richard Mine (Morris County)
Richard Stockton College, Pomona
Rider Business College
See: Rider University
Rider College
See: Rider University
Rider Moore and Stewart School of Business
See: Rider University
Rider University, Lawrenceville
See also: Westminster Choir College
Ridgefield (Bergen County)
Ridgefield Park (Bergen County)
Ridgewood (Bergen County)
Riegelsville
Right-to-Die
See: Euthanasia
Ringoes (Hunterdon County)
Ringwood (Passaic County)
Rio Vista Estate
See: Alpine
Ripley Hopping Timber
River Edge (Bergen County)
River Vale (Bergen County)
Riverdale (Morris County)
Rivers
See also: Delaware River; Great Egg Harbor River; Hackensack River; Hudson River; Manasquan River; Maurice River; Mullica River; Navesink River; Passaic River; Pompton River; Rahway River; Ramapo River; Raritan River; Rockaway River
Riverside
Riverton (Burlington County)
RJR Nabiso
Road Horse Association
Roads
See also: E-Z Pass; Garden State Parkway; Historic Roadside Markers; New Jersey Turnpike; Old Mine Road
Roads (Traffic Circles)
Roadside Markers
See: Historic Markers
Rockabye Baby Railroad
See: Rockaway Valley Railroad
Rockaway (Morris County)
Rockaway River
Rockaway Township
Rockaway Valley Railroad
Rockingham Historic Site
Rockland
Rockleigh (Bergen County)
Rocky Hill (Somerset County)
R. Odell & Sons
Roebling (Burlington County)
Roebling Company (Trenton)
Rogerene/Rogerine Baptists
Rolling Stock
See: Locomotives & Railcars
Roman Catholicism
See also: Immaculate Conception Seminary
Ronson Corp.
Roosevelt (Monmouth County)
“Rose City”
See: Madison
Rosedale Cemetary, Orange
Roseland (Essex County)
Roselle (Union County)
Roselle Park (Union County)
Rosemont (Hunterdon County)
Rosetown
Rowan College (Glassboro State College)
Roxbury
Roxbury Township (Morris County)
Rudetown
Rumson (Monmouth County)
Russians in NJ
Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies
Rutgers University
See also:
Douglass College; New Jersey College of Pharmacy
Rutgers University Newark
Rutherford (Bergen County)
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