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BAYONNE , a See also:city of See also:Hudson See also:county, New See also:Jersey, U.S.A., occupying the See also:peninsula (about 51 M. See also:long and about m. wide) between New See also:York See also:harbour and See also:Newark See also:Bay, and immediately adjoining the See also:south boundary of Jersey City, from which it is partly separated by the See also:Morris See also:Canal. It is separated from Staten See also:Island only by the narrow See also:strip of See also:water known as the Kill See also:van Kull, and it has a See also:total water frontage of about 10 m. Pop. (189o) 19,033; (19o0) 32,722, of whom ro,786 were See also:foreign-See also:born (3168 Irish, 1868 See also:Russian, 1656 See also:German); (191o) 55,545• See also:Land See also:area about 4 sq. m. Bayonne is served by the Central of New Jersey and by the Lehigh Valley See also:railways (the latter for See also:freight only), and by electric railway lines to Newark and Jersey City. The See also:principal public buildings are the city See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, the public library, the See also:post-See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office and the city See also:hospital. Besides having a considerable See also:share in the See also:commerce of the See also:port of New York, Bayonne is an Important manufacturing centre; among its manufactures are refined See also:petroleum, refined See also:copper and See also:nickel (not from the ore), refined See also:borax, foundry and See also:machine-See also:shop products, tubular boilers, electric launches and electric See also:motors, chemicals (including See also:ammonia and sulphuric and nitric acids), See also:iron and See also:brass products, See also:wire cables and See also:silk goods. In 1905 the value of its factory product was $60,6331761, an increase of 57'1% over that of 'goo, Bayonne ranking third in 1905 among the manufacturing cities of the See also:state. It is the principal petroleum-distributing centre on the See also:Atlantic seaboard, the enormous refineries and storehouses of the See also:Standard Oil See also:Company, among the largest in the See also:world, being located here; there are connecting See also:pipe lines with the See also:Ohio and See also:Pennsylvania oil See also:fields, and with New York, See also:Baltimore, See also:Philadelphia and See also:Washington. Much See also:coal is shipped from the city. Bayonne, which comprises several former villages (Bayonne, See also:Bergen Point, Pamrapo and See also:Centerville), was settled about 1665—167o by the Dutch. Originally a See also:part of Bergen; it was set off as a See also:town-See also:ship in 1861.
It was chartered as a city in 1869.
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