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This certificate, issued by the Trustees of the Weehawken Fire Department in the Township of Union, County of Hudson, State of New Jersey, admitted Frederick H. Hermann as a new member of the Department, to serve for a term of 7 years. Dated March 6,…

Photograph ofMayor Simon KellyJudge John SimonCommitteeman DavisCaptain A Chas. HessnerTaken in front of the old Police Station at 1945 Park Avenue

This black and white photo shows US Marines on the Pacific Island of Iwo Jima during World War II with a little piece of Weehawken in the Pacific Theater. According to Time Machine user Pat Keegan, the Marine on the left is her uncle, Weehawken…

Undated photo of the Lincoln School, which was located between Willow Avenue and Boulevard East, north of 19th Street, where the firehouse now stands. From the collection of the Weehawken Historical Commission.

Time Machine viewer Barbara Helmich sent in this colored photo in front of the 46th Street Firehouse and the following information: My Dad, Walter Helmich was a Weehawken fireman for 28 years. He retired in 1974. I'm not sure who the other firemen in…

This document was an (unsuccessful) bill aimed at enlarging Jersey City with the addition of a number of North Hudson communities into JC.

News clipping (undated) about the formation of the Weehawken Volunteer First Aid Squad in 1969. The caption reads: NEW FIRST AIDERS - Weehawken's Volunteer First Aid Squad, the only one of its kind in Hudson County, installed its first officers at…

This is the cover from a catalog of fire engines published in 1959. The caption reads: Weehawken, N.J. - Raymond Lax, driver and member of the Weehawken New Jersey Fire Department gets an assist as he washes the department's new FWD pumper from a…

Recruiting broadside for a Civil War regiment which had a recruiting office in Palisade Gardens, Weehawken. The text of the broadside reads: The Best Regiment Yet! The Union of the States for the Sake of the Union. "Then Conquer we must, for our case…

This handbill urges Weehawken voters to cast their vote for William Diebold, who was endorsed by the Weehawken Independent Citizens League and who was touted as being unbossed, unbiased and unafraid. John Diebold, William Diebold's grandson and…