Editing Hoboken, New Jersey (section)

===Etymology===
The name Hoboken was chosen by Colonel [[John Stevens (inventor, born 1749)|John Stevens]] when he bought land, on a part of which the city still sits. The [[Lenape]], later called Delaware Indian tribe of [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]], referred to the area as the "land of the tobacco pipe", most likely to refer to the [[soapstone]] collected there to carve [[tobacco pipe]]s, and used a phrase that became "Hopoghan Hackingh".<ref name=HobokenMuseum>[https://www.hobokenmuseum.org/explore-hoboken/ "The Abridged History of Hoboken"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150501133722/https://www.hobokenmuseum.org/history/short-history-of-hoboken |date=May 1, 2015 }}, Hoboken Museum, Accessed February 24, 2015.</ref><ref>Hutchinson, Viola L. [http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf#page=16 ''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151115082401/http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf#page=16 |date=November 15, 2015 }}, New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed September 1, 2015.</ref><ref>[[Henry Gannett|Gannett, Henry]]. [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n157/mode/2up <!-- pg=138 --> ''The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States''], p. 158. [[United States Government Printing Office]], 1905. Accessed September 1, 2015.</ref> Like [[Weehawken, New Jersey|Weehawken]], its neighbor to the north, as well as [[Communipaw]] and [[Harsimus]] to the south, Hoboken had many variations in the folks-tongue. ''Hoebuck'', old Dutch for high bluff, and likely referring to Castle Point, the district of the city highest above sea level, was used during the colonial era, and was later spelled as ''Hobuck'',<ref>''Hoboken Reporter'' January 16, 2005</ref> ''Hobock'',<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=EQgKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA428&lpg=PA428&dq=hobock+hoboken ''Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York, 1675–1776, Volume 8''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112170736/https://books.google.com/books?id=EQgKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA428&lpg=PA428&dq=hobock+hoboken |date=January 12, 2016 }}, p. 428. Archived at [[Google Books]]. Accessed June 9, 2014.</ref> ''Hobuk''<ref>[http://www.thirteen.org/hoboken/history.html History of Hoboken] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714154319/http://www.thirteen.org/hoboken/history.html |date=July 14, 2014 }}, [[WNET]]. Accessed September 1, 2015. "The following description of Hobuk, as it was then known, comes from a letter written in 1685 by a George Scott, of Edinburg"</ref> and ''Hoboocken''.<ref>[http://files.usgwarchives.org/nj/statewide/history/colrec/vol21/v21-01.txt New Jersey Colonial Records, East Jersey Records: Part 1 – Volume 21 Calendar of Records 1664–1703] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210113334/http://files.usgwarchives.org/nj/statewide/history/colrec/vol21/v21-01.txt |date=February 10, 2009 }}, USGenWeb Archives. Accessed November 27, 2011.</ref> However, in the nineteenth century, the name was changed to Hoboken, influenced by [[Flemish people|Flemish]] immigrants, and a [[folk etymology]] had emerged, linking the town of Hoboken to the similarly-named [[Hoboken, Antwerp|Hoboken]] district of [[Antwerp]].<ref>Van Der Sijs, Nicoline. [https://books.google.com/books?id=qIsDdUSYJMIC&q=hoboken ''Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops: The Influence of Dutch on the North American Languages''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803035919/https://books.google.com/books?id=qIsDdUSYJMIC&q=hoboken |date=August 3, 2020 }}, p. 109. [[Amsterdam University Press]], 2009. {{ISBN|978-9089641243}}. Accessed June 2, 2016.</ref>

Hoboken has been nicknamed the Mile Square City,<ref name=MileSquare/> but it actually occupies about {{cvt|1.25|sqmi}} of land.<ref name=CensusArea/> During the late 19th/early 20th century the population and culture of Hoboken was dominated by [[German language]] speakers who sometimes called it "Little Bremen", many of whom are buried in [[Hoboken Cemetery, North Bergen]].<ref>[http://www.hobokenmuseum.org/pressrelease/HHMpr080416aNiceTavern.pdf "Hoboken Historical Museum Hosts Publication Party for Oral History Chapbook, "''A Nice Tavern''"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719051010/http://www.hobokenmuseum.org/pressrelease/HHMpr080416aNiceTavern.pdf |date=July 19, 2011 }}, Hoboken Historical Museum. Accessed November 17, 2010.</ref><ref>[[Peter Applebome|Applebome, Peter]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/nyregion/jitters-about-whos-in-charge-on-the-waterfront-in-1917-and-today.html "Our Towns; Jitters About Who's in Charge on the Waterfront, in 1917 and Today"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913223727/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/nyregion/jitters-about-whos-in-charge-on-the-waterfront-in-1917-and-today.html |date=September 13, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 5, 2006. Accessed September 13, 2018. "And Hoboken, where as early as the 1850s, more than 1,500 of the 7,000 inhabitants were of German origin, was known as Little Bremen, and had an elaborate network of German beer gardens and restaurants, social clubs, newspapers, theaters and schools."</ref>