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	Rutgers University Libraries: Libraries: Special Collections and University Archives: Manuscripts: Borough of ...
		Jersey Homesteads was unique, however, in that it was the only community planned as an agro-industrial cooperative which included a farm, factory and retail stores, and it was the only one established specifically for urban Jewish garment workers, many of whom were committed socialists.
		Jersey Homesteads assumed its particular character because of the influence of Benjamin Brown.
		Jersey Homesteads' buildings are characterized by their spare geometric forms and use of modern building materials (including cinder blocks).
	www.libraries.rutgers.edu /rul/libs/scua/roosevelt/rstory.shtml (2408 words)

	Roosevelt, New Jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Jersey's Fourth Congressional District, covering portions of Burlington County, Mercer County, Monmouth County and Ocean County, is represented by Christopher Smith (R).
		New Jersey is represented in the Senate by Frank Lautenberg (D, Cliffside Park) and Robert Menendez (D, Hoboken).
		The 30th legislative district of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Robert Singer (R, Lakewood Township) and in the Assembly by Ronald S. Dancer (R, Jackson Township) and Joseph R. Malone (R, Bordentown).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roosevelt,_New_Jersey (896 words)

	Jersey City. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		With 11 mi/18 km of waterfront and significant RR connections, Jersey City is an important transportation terminal point and distribution center.
		Jersey City was consolidated with Bergen and Hudson City in 1869; the town of Greenville was added in 1873.
		In 1916, Jersey City docks were the scene of the “Black Tom” explosion that caused widespread property damage.
	www.bartleby.com /69/79/J01179.html (393 words)

	Electronic New Jersey
		This sketch of New Jersey Homesteads at the left appeared in a local newspaper at the time it was established.
		Jersey Homesteads is a cooperative village of 1,200 acres, in which 200 families, totalling about 1,000 persons, will earn a living by garment manufacturing and farming.
		Jersey Homesteads expects to become a separate borough or township as soon as the proper state legislation can be obtained.
	www2.scc.rutgers.edu /njh/Homesteads/history.php (785 words)

	Pearl Seligman Ralph Seligman Intellectual History Social History Spiritual History Jewish History Roosevelt Jersey ...
		Jersey Homesteads was born as the result of a meeting between two agricultural experts in the early 1930's.
		Jersey Homesteads was on the drawing board in 1934, and the first seven families moved into their new homes in 1936.
		Jersey Homesteads was widely attacked in the local and national press.
	pluto.njcc.com /~ret/Roosevelt/pearl.html (1600 words)

	Coll. 70: Sol Axelrod Collection (Roosevelt, New Jersey)
		Photocopies of Record of Conference held on September 28, 1943 at Borough Hall, Jersey Homesteads.
		Jersey Homesteads was a governmentally sponsored homestead project - articles refer to this and families and growth of the town.
		Much correspondence and comments regarding the Union and factory workers at Jersey Homesteads.
	www.monmouth.com /~mcha3/coll70.html (383 words)

	Ben Shahn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In May and June 1933 he served as an assistant to Diego Rivera while Rivera executed the infamous Rockefeller Center mural, and by circulating a petition among the workers, Shahn had a role in fanning the controversy.
		Shahn left the FSA in 1938, and that same year he and his wife Bernarda moved to the new town of Jersey Homesteads (now Roosevelt, New Jersey).
		In 1975, the Harvard University Press published The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn, which has a collection of his works.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ben_Shahn (318 words)

	Princeton University Senior Theses brief display
		Bennett, R.S. The geology of the southern New Jersey lagoon.
		Fryer, Daniel Kenefick (1978): The County Courts of Morris County, New Jersey 1750-1762: The Growth of Dissatisfaction in Pre-Revolutionary New Jersey.
		Leutz, Walter Nordahl (1969): The Negro in Suburban New Jersey.
	libweb5.princeton.edu /theses/thesesvw.asp?Lname=&Fname=&Submit=Search&Title1=jersey&department=&Class=&Adviser= (11303 words)

	Back to Capitalism - TIME
		Jersey Homesteaders who could find jobs commuted to Manhattan or Philadelphia, still counted themselves lucky to be living in the country at monthly rent of $14 to $17.
		Last week, Jersey Homesteads' dead cooperative economy was buried.
		Hopeful was many a member of Jersey Homesteads' 125 remaining families that private enterprise might provide jobs where their cooperative had failed.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,763902,00.html (475 words)

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		With Albert Einstein as its major advocate and the renowned American artist Ben Shahn as a resident, Jersey Homesteads was a popular place to be in the 1930s.
		Jersey Homesteads was a small town of 1,200 acres located in what is now Roosevelt, New Jersey, near Hightstown and not far from Trenton.
		The Bauhaus-style houses at Jersey Homesteads were very inexpensive modular dwellings built for garment manufacturers and farmers.
	www.ettc.net /njarts/details.cfm?ID=439 (316 words)

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		Located in the heart of the New Jersey Highlands, West Milford is a welcome break from the hustle and bustle of New York and its suburbs.
		The 41st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry (NJVI) Civil War Roundtable of Northern New Jersey was formed in September, 1999 from the participants of a civil war discussion group that met at the Barnes and Noble bookstore in West Paterson, New Jersey.
		Jersey Homesteads and Social Change in the 1960s and 1970s were piloted by students and faculty at Hunterdon Central Regional HS and Spotswood HS in 1997
	www.cliftonhistory.org /links.html (750 words)

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		Ben Shahn's mural for the community center at Jersey Homesteads, Roosevelt, is a fresco - a painting done on fresh, moist plaster with pigments dissolved in water.
		Shahn was commissioned to paint this mural for Jersey Homesteads’ community center in 1936.
		The Jersey Homesteads mural illustrates the struggle of a Jewish immigrant coming to America.
	www.ettc.net /njarts/details.cfm?ID=378 (692 words)

	Van Reypen House
		The Van Reypen house, built in 1802, was one of the oldest homesteads in Jersey City and belonged to one of the founding Dutch families of the Bergen Township.
		It is said to be the third house located west of one of the original lots that was within the stockade of the township established under the Dutch Director-General of New Netherland Peter Stuyvesant in 1661 for defense against the Indians.
		The Van Reypen homestead remained in the family until 1925 when it was sold and razed for the construction of an apartment.
	www.njcu.edu /programs/jchistory/Pages/V_Pages/Van_Reypen_House.htm (633 words)

	Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The East Jersey Board of Proprietors, established in 1682 and recently dissolved, originally had their offices in -------, the provincial capital of East Jersey.
		In 1791, New Jersey became the first state to charter an industrial town.
		Open to the public, the Isaac Watson House, built in 1708, is a restored home with 18th century furnishings that serves as the headquarters of the New Jersey Daughters of the American Revolution.
	www.shore.co.monmouth.nj.us /archives/histgam.asp (1045 words)

	NARA - NHPRC - New Jersey
		Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ $55,723 to arrange and describe the records of four New Jersey utopian communities: Jersey Homesteads, Farmingdale, the Modern School, and Free Acres.
		New Jersey Division of Archives and Records Management, Trenton, NJ $40,900 to develop four units of a series of training modules in archival and records management theory, methodology, and law for state and local government officials.
		New Jersey State Library, Archives and History Bureau, Trenton, NJ $20,500 to survey county records of historical value in New Jersey and to develop improved programs for county records in the State.
	www.archives.gov /nhprc/projects/states-territories/nj.html?template=print (1224 words)

	History notes on Jersey Homesteads Historic District, Jersey Homesteads Historic District Advisory Council, World ...
		In 1937, Jersey Homesteads separated from Millstone Township and was incorporated as a borough.
		The founder of Jersey Homesteads was Benjamin Brown, an immigrant from Russia who had established Jewish agricultural cooperatives in the West.
		The mission of the Council is to educate the public regarding the history of Roosevelt and its significance in the history of Monmouth County and New Jersey.
	njcc.com /~ret/Roosevelt/history1.html (882 words)

	The Bauhaus connection: Roosevelt housing has German roots BY LINDA DeNICOLA Staff Writer
		Dessau, in eastern Germany, is the home of the Bauhaus-Dessau Foundation, while Roosevelt, originally called Jersey Homesteads, was designed as a Bauhaus-style community made of cinder blocks with overhanging, flat roofs.
		The declared purpose of the design movement was to bring together all artistic disciplines, crafts and manual trades in order to create a new "art of building" that would benefit society and improve the lives of working people.
		Ticktin scoffs at a persistent rumor that the flat-roofed houses in Roosevelt were unsuitable for a moist climate and had been sent to the wrong community.
	examiner.gmnews.com /news/2004/0415/Front_Page/043.html (1300 words)

	New Jersey county information for students
		Two of the best books for this project are You, New Jersey and the World and Colonial Histories: New Jersey, both by John T. Cunningham.
		Isle of Jersey, where Carteret had been Royal Governor when King Charles II and his brother James, Duke of York, sought shelter on the 45 square mile island, during the English Civil War.
		The Duke of York, possessed of the Jerseys, Granted same to Sir George Carteret, who came from the Isle of Jersey.
	www.gti.net /mocolib1/kid/njhistory.html (312 words)

	hist2319_syllabus
		History of the state of New Jersey from colonial days to the present.
		Documents relating to New Jersey in the 1960s.
		Demo for projected Encyclopedia of New Jersey to be published by Rutgers University Press.
	pirate.shu.edu /~luriemax/courses/newjerseyhistsyllabus.htm (1184 words)

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		One of the best known maps of early New Jersey is William Faden’s The Province of New Jersey, Divided into East and West, Commonly called the Jerseys.
		A 1778 copy of this map is at the New Jersey Historical Society.
		The New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, located in Holmdel, was dedicated on May 7, 1995, with 1,547 names inscribed.
	www.shore.co.monmouth.nj.us /archives/gam99.asp (1661 words)

	Amazon.com: The Jews of New Jersey: A Pictorial History: Books: Patricia M. Ard,Michael Aaron Rockland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Jews have called New Jersey home since the late seventeenth century, and they currently make up almost 6 percent of the state's residents.
		The Jews of New Jersey: A Pictorial History redresses this lack with a lively narrative and hundreds of archival and family photographs-many rare-that bring this history to life.
		This fantastic book makes people living in New Jersey realize that the jews they see walking around have deep histories; many rooted in the holocaust, all certiantly impacted by it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0813530121?v=glance (857 words)

	FSA Photography Project
		Stryker resigned in 1943 and the complete collection of photographs (approximately 270,000 negatives and 77,000 prints) were transferred to the Library of Congress in Washington, DC in 1944.
		The project in Roosevelt, New Jersey was originally called the Jersey Homesteads, a sister New Deal homestead cooperative project, for some 200 families of displaced garment workers.
		When the small photographic unit of the Division of Subsistence Homesteads was transferred to the FSA, Johnson became one of the first FSA photographers.
	www.arthurdaleheritage.org /loc/fsaphotography.htm (715 words)

	Rutgers University Libraries: Libraries: Special Collections and University Archives: Manuscripts
		It is an artificial collection brought together by the Roosevelt Oral History Committee, the Jersey Homesteads Historic District Advisory Council and interested Roosevelt residents to document and preserve the history of the borough.
		Approximately 8.1 cubic feet consists of paper records, including correspondence, minutes, reports, newspaper clippings (photocopied onto acid-free paper), books, articles, broadsides and newsletters, while the remainder of the collection is in a variety of audiovisual formats including reel-to-reel audio tapes, audiocassettes, photographs (some as photocopies), motion picture film and videocassettes.
		Brodkin, Kimberly A., "From the Jersey Homesteads to Roosevelt: Community and Identity in a New Deal Settlement." (Senior Honors Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1992).
	www.libraries.rutgers.edu /rul/libs/scua/roosevelt/rhisttop.shtml (712 words)

	New Jersey Resources: Camden County Library System
		The New Jersey Audubon Society fosters environmental awareness and a conservation ethic among New Jersey's citizens; protects New Jersey's birds, mammals, other animals, and plants, especially endangered and threatened species; and promotes preservation of New Jersey's valuable natural habitats.
		This is a full-text archive of the Opinions of the New Jersey Courts, including the Supreme Court, (since March, 1994), the Superior Court Appellate Division and the Tax Court (both since September, 1995).
		The mission of the New Jersey Self-Help Clearinghouse is to increase the awareness, utilization, and understanding of mutual aid self-help groups to reduce emotional suffering and isolation.
	www.camden.lib.nj.us /reference/njresources.htm (5637 words)

	Department of State \| Around and About New Jersey: Teachers Guides - Elementary School
		The winter of 1779-80 was one of the worst of the century, but Washington managed to quiet the complaints of the soldiers and hold the army together.
		Park Ranger Ben Bolger conducts a tour of Thomas Edison's West Orange laboratories, which were known as an "invention factory." He explains the steps in the invention process. The program shows how three of Edison's inventions —the electric light, the phonograph, and the motion-picture camera—changed the way we live, work, and play.
		Originally named Jersey Homesteads, Roosevelt was founded du8ring the Great Depression as a place to resettle Jewish garment workers from the slums of New York and Philadelphia. The world-famous artist Ben Shahn painted a mural in what is now the Roosevelt elementary school, which depicts the history of Jewish immigration to America. Guide
	www.state.nj.us /state/education/aboutandaroundnj.html (378 words)

	Exhibit
		In 1936, Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was selected to create a mural for the Jersey Homesteads, a Jewish workers' utopian community in New Jersey.
		This was the first mural that Shahn completed under the New Deal, and he painted it in true fresco which he mastered as an apprentice to Diego Rivera.
		Namely, to build cross-union and inter-cultural alliances, to move back to the land, and live by the example of the Jersey Homesteads.
	www.library.upenn.edu /exhibits/cajs/exhib2001/toc.html (3481 words)

	Gateway to History Resources
		Electronic New Jersey, A Digital Archive of New Jersey History - Sponsored by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Archives and Special Collections Department.
		New Jersey Historic Documents - Sponsored by the State of New Jersey.
		This basic list of New Jersey History links is separated into general and precise subject areas according to broad topic headings including: Organizations and Societies, Museums and Historical Sites, New Jersey Pinelands, Native Americans - New Jersey, Wars and Military Sites, Libraries and Archives, and Miscellaneous.
	library.shu.edu /history.htm (1530 words)

	Jew Against Jew
		Starting a tradition that would be later repeated in the Jewish State of Israel, FDR's "post-Depression administration founded 'Jersey Homesteads' as an experimental farming-industrial cooperative," writes Joseph Sapia of the Gannett News Service.
		In his July 31 article carried in the Morris County Daily Record entitled, "Synagogue plan splits Jewish community," the battle between minority Orthodox Jews and the overwhelming influence and control of Zionist/secularists is once again on display.
		In Rockaway, New Jersey, another religious group, this time Christians, are also being blocked from practicing their religion once again by the lowest level of American government.
	www.rense.com /general67/jewagainstjew.htm (1579 words)

	AllRefer.com - Louis Kahn Information
		He taught at the Yale School of Architecture from 1947 and was an important influence on urban planning.
		He held many positions in planning, design and research, being associated with such bodies as the Philadelphia Planning Commission, Jersey Homesteads Cooperative and the US Housing Authority.
		It was not until he was in his 50s that his first major work was completed, being previously more concerned with theory.
	www.allrefer.com /louis-kahn (358 words)

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