Market Street

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Market Street's Changing Views

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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.

Wards

Street # 1850 1860 1870 1880 1895 1905 1915
Market Street 1-137 West            
Market Street 138-285 East            
Market Street 286-306 South            
Market Street 1-137   2          
Market Street 138-283   4          
Market Street 284-311   5          
Market Street 1-174     2        
Market Street 175-363     4        
Market Street 364-587     5        
Market Street 588-702     12        
Market Street 1-174       2      
Market Street 175-362       4      
Market Street 363-484       5      
Market Street 485-709       12      
Market Street 1-173         2 2  
Market Street 174-361         4 4  
Market Street 362-602         5 5  
Market Street 603-709         12 12  
Market Street 1-173             2
Market Street 174-359             4
Market Street 360-602             5
Market Street 603-709             12

Enumerations Districts

Year # Enumeration District
1880   24, 26, 27, 34, 35, 38, 69, 70, 71, 72
1900   12, 13, 14, 16, 34, 35, 44, 47, 48, 49, 115, 116
     
     

Number Changes

1850
1874
Left
Right
Intersecting Street/Building
Left
Right
1
High Street
1
2
16
Shipman Street
15
Grove Street
13
12
Pierson's Alley
25
35
Comes Alley
37
Springfield Avenue
40
Catharine Street
Arlington Street
40
50
Plane Street
57
52
72
Washington Street
107
82
104
Harrison Street
Halsey Street
132
107
Grant's Alley
117
Cammack's Alley
Library Court
149
125
Wilbur's Alley
157
Nutria Street
164
137
Broad Street
173
174
169
Beaver Street
205
187
Mulberry Street
235
236
215
Lawrence Street
263
266
209
Baldwin's Court
242
Ward Street
300
Exchange Alley
312
258
Alling Street
322
285
Railroad Place West
361
Railroad Place East
363
Ferry Street
362
287
Commerce Street
395
South Market Street
Union Street
406
River Street
421
Prospect Street
418
Jersey Street
437
Congress Street
448
Jefferson Street
466
Madison Street
484
Monroe Street
500
Adams Street
512
Jackson Street
532
Van Buren Street
555
550
Polk/Merchant Street
571
570
Ferguson Street
587
586
Chambers Street
603
602
Frederick Street
619
618
Fillmore Street
635
634
Bowery Street
665
666
Providence Street
681
Mott/Ferry Street
695
702

The Neighborhood

Number Building From To
65, 67 First Reformed Dutch Church 1833 1835
90 Central Presbyterian Church 1837 1851
112 First German Presbyterian Church 1852 1852
115 Park Presbyterian Church 1848 1850
115 First Ebenezer Baptist Church 1860 1866
138 Waldmann's Opera House 1900 Unknown
149 Receivers of the New Doctrine Church 1870 1871
153 Central Methodist Church 1851 1851
154 First German Baptist Church 1856 1861
154 B'Nai Abraham 1867 1869
159 First German Presbyterian Church 1838 1841
159 First German Lutheran Church 1839 1841
162 Grace Episcopal Church 1840 1847
165, 169½ First Reformed Dutch Church 1835 1870
166 St. Matthew's #1 Episcopal Church 1850 1869
181, 127 Central Methodist Church 1852 Unknown
202 Bethany Baptist Church 1875 1879
210 St. Matthew's #1 Episcopal Church 1870 1871
211 First Reformed Dutch Church 1871 Unknown
245, 251 Second Baptist Church 1835 1843
251 First German Methodist Church 1846 1869
319 First German Methodist Church 1870 1872
510 Asbury Methodist Chapel 1860 1883
510 South Market Street Methodist Church 1884 Unknown