Market Street Photos Market Street's Changing Views Do you have a photo of this street? If so please email me. 1841 - 292 High Street to Rail Road Avenue 1850 - 292 High Street to Passaic Hotel or Morris Canal 1871 - 464 High Street (op Breintnall Place) SE to Ferry Street 1915 - from 464 High Street SE to 378 Ferry Street South of the railroad tracks was formerly known as South Market Street

Newspaper Articles

1839 - William Ogden's House of Refreshment
September 13, 1885 - In the Dead of Night
September 23, 1900 - A Great Crowd
January 18, 1903 - City Property Since the Founding of Newark to be Sold (138 Market Street)
February 8, 1903 - In Peril at the Corners
April 26, 1903 - A Market Street Block as It was in 1865 and is Now
April 26, 1903 - A Market Street Block as It was in 1865 and is Now (article only)
October 22, 1905 - Old Market Street Features
June 19, 1904 - A Cattle Post Corner on Market Street
August 4, 1907 - Police Won't Tolerate Loafers and Oglers
April 8, 1908 - Roundsman Tully and Squad Who must Wrestle, Unaided by Board, with "Corners" Traffic Problem
May 1, 1910 - Big Realty Sale on Market Street
January 21, 1912 - Deplorable Condition in Newark's Very Centre
December 1, 1912 - Four Corners Loafers Bolder
October 28, 1917 - Newark Has Busiest Traffic Center in Country

Most likely started as an Indian footpath following a stream which ran down the hillside into the marshes.

From: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, October 1876

About midway along Broad Street, crossing at right angles is Market Street, another exceptionally wide street, also an ancestral legacy. The neighborhood of the intersection is the great pivot of the city's trade and commerce, which extends to every quarter of the civilized globe. Market Street rises, in district-school parlance, in the court house, on the western hillside and empties into the railroad depot to the east. From the top of the courthouse you look down upon a perfectly straight street, filled with horse cars and vehicles of every sort and description, while the sidewalks are half hidden from view by boxes and bales and moving throngs of people. The sight on a week day morning, about seven o'clock, is something to be remembered; an army of men, women and children, the latter of all ages, fill both street and sidewalks as they proceed to their various employments. There never was a more useful thoroughfare than Market Street. It is none too broad. And it is exactly where it should be. It drains that portion of the city which sits upon a hill.

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