Editing North Bergen, New Jersey (section)

===Toponymy, secession, and urbanization===
On February 22, 1838, [[Jersey City, New Jersey|Jersey City]] was incorporated as a separate municipality,<ref>Winfield, Charles Hardenburg. [https://archive.org/details/historycountyhu00winfgoog/page/n304 <!-- pg=288 --> "History of the county of Hudson, New Jersey: from its earliest settlement"], p. 289. Kennard & Hay Stationery M'fg and Print. Co., 1874. Accessed December 22, 2011.</ref> and in 1840 Hudson County, comprising the city and [[Bergen Township, New Jersey (pre-1862)|Bergen Township]], was created from the southern portion of Bergen County.<ref name="jc"/><ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Barber | first1 = John W. | author-link = John Warner Barber | last2 = Howe | first2 = Henry | author2-link = Henry Howe | title = Hudson County Historical Collections of the State of New Jersey | place = New York | publisher = S. Tuttle | year = 1844 | chapter = Hudson County | url = http://history.rays-place.com/nj/hudson-cty.htm | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120709112859/http://history.rays-place.com/nj/hudson-cty.htm | url-status = dead | archive-date = July 9, 2012 }}</ref> North Bergen was incorporated as a township on April 10, 1843, by an act of the [[New Jersey Legislature]], from the northern portion of Bergen Township.<ref name=Story/> At the time, the town included everything east of the Hackensack River and north of and including what is now [[The Heights, Jersey City|Jersey City Heights]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Lang, Arnold |title=Bergen County's Townships and Municipalities, Part 3 1836 to 1893 |url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njgsbc/gsbcArch03.html |publisher= The Archivist | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915120203/http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njgsbc/gsbcArch03.html | archive-date = September 15, 2008 | access-date=December 22, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | author1 = Barber, John W. | author2 = Howe, Henry | title = North Bergen, NJ from Historical Collections Of The State Of New Jersey | place = New York | publisher = S. Tuttle | year = 1844 | access-date = May 10, 2011 | url = http://history.rays-place.com/nj/n-bergen-nj.htm | archive-date = July 10, 2012 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120710001752/http://history.rays-place.com/nj/n-bergen-nj.htm | url-status = dead }}</ref>

The entire region that is now known as [[North Hudson, New Jersey|North Hudson]] experienced massive immigration and urbanization during the latter half of the 19th century, and led to the creation of various new towns. Portions of the North Bergen were taken to form Hoboken Township (April 9, 1849, now the City of [[Hoboken, New Jersey|Hoboken]]), Hudson Town (April 12, 1852, later part of Hudson City), [[Hudson City, New Jersey|Hudson City]] (April 11, 1855, later merged with [[Jersey City, New Jersey|Jersey City]]), [[Guttenberg, New Jersey|Guttenberg]] (formed within the township on March 9, 1859, and set off as an independent municipality on April 1, 1878), [[Weehawken, New Jersey|Weehawken]] (March 15, 1859), [[Union Township, Hudson County, New Jersey|Union Township]] and [[West Hoboken, New Jersey|West Hoboken Township]] (both created on February 28, 1861), [[Union, Hudson County, New Jersey|Union Hill town]] (March 29, 1864) and [[Secaucus, New Jersey|Secaucus]] (March 12, 1900).<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. 145. Accessed May 30,2024.</ref> During this era many of [[List of cemeteries in Hudson County, New Jersey|Hudson County's cemeteries]] were developed along the town's western slope of the [[Hudson Palisades]].

At their foot in the [[New Jersey Meadowlands|Meadowlands]], the [[Erie Railroad|Erie]], the [[New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway|New York, Susquehanna and Western]] and the [[West Shore Railroad|West Shore]] railroads ran [[Right-of-way (transportation)|right-of-ways]] to their terminals on the [[North River (Hudson River)|Hudson]], the last building its [[Bergenline Avenue (HBLR station)|tunnel]] through [[Bergen Hill]] at North Bergen.<ref>[http://pubsindex.trb.org/view.aspx?id=700173 "Design And Construction Of The Weehawken Tunnel And Bergenline Avenue Station For The Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929025531/http://pubsindex.trb.org/view.aspx?id=700173 |date=September 29, 2011 }}, Transportation Research Board, accessed May 10, 2011.</ref> The area was important destination during peak [[German immigration to the United States]] and is recalled today in [[Schuetzen Park (New Jersey)|Schuetzen Park]], founded in 1874. Further north, [[Racetrack Section, North Bergen|Nungesser's Guttenberg Racetrack]] became a notable and notorious destination which, after its closing, became a proving ground for new technologies: the automobile and the airplane.<ref name=Racetrack>[http://colinsghost.org/2010/01/winter-racing-at-new-jerseys-guttenberg-race-track-1885-1893.html Ractrack "Winter Racing at New Jersey's Guttenberg Race Track, 1885–1893"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725185703/http://colinsghost.org/2010/01/winter-racing-at-new-jerseys-guttenberg-race-track-1885-1893.html |date=July 25, 2011 }}, Colin's Ghost: Thoroughbred Racing History, Jan 28, 2010.</ref><ref>Ryall, G. F. T. [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1957/12/14/the-race-track-393 "The Race Track"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614044627/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1957/12/14/the-race-track-393 |date=June 14, 2018 }}, ''[[The New Yorker]]'', December 14, 1957. Accessed July 4, 2018.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1910/01/16/archives/fire-ends-old-guttenburg-blaze-seen-from-manhattan-destroys-the.html?searchResultPosition=1 "Fire Ends Old Guttenburg.; Blaze Seen from Manhattan Destroys the Clubhouse, Latterly on Inn"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430165523/https://www.nytimes.com/1910/01/16/archives/fire-ends-old-guttenburg-blaze-seen-from-manhattan-destroys-the.html?searchResultPosition=1 |date=April 30, 2022 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 16, 1910. Accessed November 13, 2019.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1921/07/08/archives/three-planes-fall-one-beheads-a-boy-former-army-pilots-arrested.html "Three Planes Fall; One Beheads A Boy; Former Army Pilots Arrested After Their Propeller Kills Jersey Lad at Play. Biplane Engine Goes Dead Lieut. Stinson Lands in Flatbush Lettuce Patch—A Coney Island Mishap"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430165523/https://www.nytimes.com/1921/07/08/archives/three-planes-fall-one-beheads-a-boy-former-army-pilots-arrested.html |date=April 30, 2022 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', July 8, 1921. Accessed November 13, 2019.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1910/12/27/archives/moroks-aeroplane-interrupts-toilet-transhudson-flyers-machine-comes.html "Morok's Aeroplane Interrupts Toilet; Trans-Hudson Flyer's Machine Comes to Grief in a Young Woman's Window "] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613210719/https://www.nytimes.com/1910/12/27/archives/moroks-aeroplane-interrupts-toilet-transhudson-flyers-machine-comes.html |date=June 13, 2018 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 27, 1910. Accessed July 4, 2018.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1910/12/26/archives/bandit-robs-a-train-gets-more-than-100-wallets-and-watches-from.html "Bandit Robs a Train"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430164019/https://www.nytimes.com/1910/12/26/archives/bandit-robs-a-train-gets-more-than-100-wallets-and-watches-from.html |date=April 30, 2022 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 26, 1910. Accessed November 13, 2019.</ref>