Bayonne - Ship Docked at Constable Hook Oil Depot
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2012-10-14
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Constable Hook is a cape located on the north side of the outlet of Kill van Kull into Upper New York Bay in Bayonne.
In 1864, after building a railroad bridge over Newark Bay, the Central Railroad of New Jersey laid railroad tracks through Bayonne into Constable Hook. After the American Civil War, they built the Port Johnston Coal Docks, at the time the largest coal port in the world. Many Irish immigrants took jobs with the railroad living in Constable Hook. So many Irish had moved there that the residents of Bayonne referred to the area as "Irishtown."
In 1872, John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil bought 176 acres of land on Constable Hook, and by 1885 there was a pipeline connecting it to the field of Texas. Three years later, Prentice Oil Company was also established at Constable Hook.
Other oil companies like Tidewater and Ocean Oil also built refineries on Constable Hook.
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Constable Hook Oil Depot in Bayonne, Exxon, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Kill Van Kull, Bayonne, Staten Island, Port Newark, Bayonne Bridge, Hudson County, Gateway, Gateway Region, New Jersey, NJ, Jersey, The Garden State
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