Statue of Peter Stuyvesant in Bergen Square
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2009-06-26
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A statue of Peter Stuyvesant once marked the site of the village of Bergen. It stood in the courtyard of Martin Luther King, Jr. School, formerly School No. 11, at 866 Bergen Avenue. The statue was proposed in 1910 at the commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of the founding of the village of Bergen. Sculpted by J. Massey Rhind, the eight-foot high statue originally stood on an elaborate base, twelve-feet long and eight-feet high that was later modified. The inscription on the original base read: "In the year of our Lord 1660, by permission of PETRUS STUYVESANT, Director-General, and the Council of New Netherland, around this Square, was founded and built the Village of BERGEN, the first permanent settlement in NEW JERSEY." The unveiling of the statue took place on October 18, 1913.
The statue was removed from this site on February 5, 2010, amidst some controversy, primely due to the ignorance of the members of the Jersey City Board of Education . It is now in a park located behind the Trust Company Building that once was a parking lot. There are plans for the statue to be restored and eventually be placed on a new base within historic Bergen Square.
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Statue of Peter Stuyvesant, Founder of Jersey City, Bergen Square American History, Jersey City, Hudson County, Gateway, The Gateway Region, New Jersey, Jersey, NJ, The Garden State
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