Editing Dover, New Jersey (section)

==History==
Joseph Latham was deeded the land that includes present-day Dover in 1713, from portions of land that had been purchased from [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] by the Proprietors of [[West Jersey]]. On May 31, 1722, Latham and his wife Jane deeded {{convert|527|acre|km2}} over to John Jackson of [[Flushing, Queens|Flushing]], [[New York (state)|New York]]. Jackson settled on the eastern portion of his land along Granny's Brook at the site of what would later become the Ross Ribbon Factory on Park Heights Avenue.<ref>Daigle, Michael. [https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/dailyrecord/access/1848191581.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+25%2C+1999&author=MICHAEL+DAIGLEDaily+Record&pub=Daily+Record&desc=DOVER+AT+THE+MILLENNIUM&pqatl=google "Dover at the Millenium"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724095724/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/dailyrecord/access/1848191581.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+25%2C+1999&author=MICHAEL+DAIGLEDaily+Record&pub=Daily+Record&desc=DOVER+AT+THE+MILLENNIUM&pqatl=google |date=July 24, 2012 }}, ''[[Daily Record (New Jersey)|Daily Record]]'', February 25, 1999. Accessed April 27, 2012.</ref>

Iron ore at the time was so plentiful that it could be collected off the ground at the nearby Dickerson Mine in [[Mine Hill Township, New Jersey|Mine Hill]]. At Jackson's Forge, ore would be processed into bars that would then be transported to [[Paterson, New Jersey|Paterson]] and other industrial areas towards the east. The passage of the [[Iron Act]] by the British Parliament led to financial difficulties, leading Jackson into bankruptcy in 1753, with all of his property and belongings sold off at a Sheriff's sale. Quaker Hartshorne Fitz Randolph purchased Jackson's property and annexed to his own existing property, which would later become part of [[Randolph, New Jersey|Randolph Township]].<ref>Kullen, Charlotte G. [https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/dailyrecord/access/1847110931.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+21%2C+1999&author=CHARLOTTE+G+KULLENDaily+Record&pub=Daily+Record&desc=RANDOLPH+A+DAY+IN+THE+LIFE&pqatl=google "Randolph — A Day in the Life"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724092344/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/dailyrecord/access/1847110931.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+21%2C+1999&author=CHARLOTTE+G+KULLENDaily+Record&pub=Daily+Record&desc=RANDOLPH+A+DAY+IN+THE+LIFE&pqatl=google |date=July 24, 2012 }}, ''[[Daily Record (New Jersey)|Daily Record]]'', October 21, 1999. Accessed April 27, 2012. "It is here that in 1722, Dover's first European settler, John Jackson, built an iron forge that gave birth to the industry that for the next 21 centuries would shape the growth of the town... The ban wiped out Jackson, who sold his farm to Hartshorne Fitz Randolph, for whom the modern township is named, and his forge to Josiah Beaman."</ref>

Dover was incorporated as a town on April 1, 1869, within [[Randolph, New Jersey|Randolph Township]] and became fully independent as of March 5, 1896.<ref>Honeyman, Abraham Van Doren. [https://books.google.com/books?id=nOkkAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA226 ''Index-analysis of the Statutes of New Jersey, 1896-1909: Together with References to All Acts, and Parts of Acts, in the 'General Statutes' and Pamphlet Laws Expressly Repealed: and the Statutory Crimes of New Jersey During the Same Period''], p. 210. New Jersey Law Journal Publishing Company, 1910. Accessed September 22, 2015.</ref> The town charter was amended in 1875. On May 7, 1896, Dover was reincorporated as a [[city (New Jersey)|city]] and regained its status as a town on March 21, 1899, after the referendum that approved the change was invalidated by a court ruling.<ref name=Story>Snyder, John P. [https://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/bulletin67.pdf ''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968''], Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 192. Accessed July 9, 2013.</ref><ref>[http://mclib.info/reference/local-history-genealogy/historical-timeline-of-morris-county-boundaries/ Historical Timeline of Morris County Boundaries] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225144924/http://mclib.info/reference/local-history-genealogy/historical-timeline-of-morris-county-boundaries/ |date=December 25, 2016 }}, Morris County Library. Accessed December 24, 2016. "1869, April 1. Dover Town is established from Rockaway and Randolph. It is called Dover City during 1896-1899."</ref>

In its past, Dover has had extensive iron and mill works, machine shops, stove, furnace, and range works, boiler and bridge works, rolling mills, drill works, knitting and silk mills, and a large hosiery factory (MacGregors). During this period, Dover was a port on the [[Morris Canal]] while it was operational; the boat basin was located at what is today the JFK Commons Park.<ref>Daigle, Michael. [https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/dailyrecord/access/1804509191.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+04%2C+2004&author=Michael+Daigle&pub=Daily+Record&desc=Morris+Canal's+history+gains+more+support&pqatl=google "Morris Canal's history gains more support: $440,000 in grants will help residents' preservation efforts"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724104152/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/dailyrecord/access/1804509191.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS%3AFT&type=current&date=Jul+04%2C+2004&author=Michael+Daigle&pub=Daily+Record&desc=Morris+Canal%27s+history+gains+more+support&pqatl=google |date=July 24, 2012 }}, ''[[Daily Record (New Jersey)|Daily Record]]'', July 4, 2004. Accessed April 27, 2012.</ref>

Sources attribute the town's name to [[Dover]], England<ref>[[Henry Gannett|Gannett, Henry]]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA10 ''The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States''], p. 10. [[United States Government Printing Office]], 1905. Accessed August 28, 2015.</ref> or [[Dover, New Hampshire]].<ref>Hutchinson, Viola L. [http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf#page=12 ''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names''], New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed August 28, 2015.</ref><ref>Herman, Jennifer. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Tc4uZ2HBG2oC&pg=PA267 ''New Jersey Encyclopedia''], p. 267. State History Publications, 2008. {{ISBN|9781878592446}}. Accessed August 29, 2015.</ref>