Editing North Arlington, New Jersey (section)

==History==
[[File:Zadroga 9-11 memorial.jpg|thumb|North Arlington erected a 9/11 memorial at the James Zadroga Soccer Field.]]
North Arlington was originally part of an area called "[[New Barbadoes Neck]]".<ref>[http://www.lyndhursthistoricalsociety.org/LyndhurstHistory.html From the Hackensacks to the Dutch], Lyndhurst Historical Society. Accessed December 15, 2011. "Since Major Kingsland was stationed on Barbados and the shape of the territory he purchased here was a neck of land between two rivers, he named his acquisition 'New Barbadoes Neck.' In June 1671, Nathaniel Kingsland sold the southern third of New Barbadoes Neck (Harrison, East Newark, Kearny and North Arlington) to William Sanford for 200 pounds."</ref>

[[Copper]] was mined at the [[Schuyler Copper Mine]] in present-day North Arlington during the 18th and 19th centuries.<ref>[http://www.kearnyalumni.com/copper/index.html Schuyler Copper Mine], accessed December 29, 2006.</ref> It was one of the first true copper mines in North America.

In 1755, the first [[steam engine]] in North America was assembled in North Arlington.<ref>[http://northarlington.org/na-history/ NA History], Borough of North Arlington. Accessed September 10, 2015. "In the 1750s, it was the site of the first working steam engine in America, used to pump water from the copper mine located there."</ref> The [[Newcomen steam engine]] was imported from England by John Schuyler to pump water out of his [[Schuyler Copper Mine|copper mine]]. He hired engineer [[Josiah Hornblower]] to assemble the machinery.<ref>[http://www.jerseyhistory.org/findingaid.php?aid=1508 Manuscript Group 1508, Stoudinger-Alofsen-Fulton Drawings], [[New Jersey Historical Society]]. Accessed December 29, 2006.</ref>

North Arlington was formed by a referendum passed on March 9, 1896, and incorporated as a borough by an act of the [[New Jersey Legislature]] on March 11, 1896, from area taken from [[Union Township, Bergen County, New Jersey|Union Township]].<ref name="Story">Snyder, John P. [https://nj.gov/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. 82. Accessed May 30, 2024.</ref> It was called North Arlington because it was north of the [[Arlington, New Jersey|Arlington]] section of [[Kearny, New Jersey|Kearny]], which had been named from the Arlington Station on the [[Erie Railroad]].<ref>[https://www.kearnynj.org/history-of-the-town-of-kearny/ History], Town of Kearny. Accessed October 3, 2019.</ref>

North Arlington, together with [[Lyndhurst, New Jersey|Lyndhurst]] and [[Rutherford, New Jersey|Rutherford]], was the site of the [[EnCap]] project, an effort to remediate landfills on the {{convert|785|acre|km2|adj=on}} site and construct homes and golf courses on top of the cleaned up site. On May 27, 2008, the [[New Jersey Meadowlands Commission]] terminated its agreement with EnCap Golf Holdings, the company that had the contract to redevelop the site, after the company had missed targets to clean up the landfills as part of the project.<ref>Belson, Ken. [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/nyregion/08encap.html "Meadowlands Commission Cuts Ties With Developer"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 8, 2008. Accessed May 25, 2008.</ref>

On November 18, 2015, North Arlington approved plans for [[FedEx]] to build a {{convert|139000|sqft|adj=on}} freight distribution facility on a former steel dumping ground on Porete Avenue. FedEx pledged to build a new access road to Porete Avenue from Belleville Turnpike, complete with a signalized traffic light, as part of construction. The company planned to hire 225 people to work at the facility. FedEx planned to complete the building by early 2017.<ref>Na, Myles. [https://www.nj.com/bergen/2015/11/fedex_to_build_distribution_center_in_north_arling.html "FedEx to build distribution center in North Arlington"], NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]], November 18, 2015, updated January 17, 2019. Accessed October 3, 2019. "The borough has approved plans for FedEx to build a 139,000-square-foot freight distribution facility on a former steel dumping ground on Porete Avenue."</ref>