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Bulls Ferry is the area along the Hudson River in the North Hudson County, New Jersey municipalities of West New York, Guttenberg, and North Bergen. It takes its name from a pre-Revolutionary settlement of the family Bull, who operated a ferry to the burgeoning city of New York across the river. During the Revolutionary War it was known as Block House Point and was occupied by British forces and was site of several skirmishes between them and the Americans.〔The Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley Subtitle: The Jersey Dutch and the Neutral Ground, 1775-1783 Author: Adrian C. Leiby Paper ISBN 0-8135-0898-3 Pages 253-254〕〔Braistted, Todd. ("American v. American: The 1781 Battle of Fort Lee" ), Palisades Interstate Park, New Jersey Section, May/June 1006〕〔Payette, Pete. ("New Jersey" ) North American Forts: 1526 - 1956 , February 21, 2011〕〔Lossing, Benson J. ("The Hudson, From the Wilderness to the Sea." ), 1866, New York Public Library, accessed May 5, 2011.〕 Brigadier General Anthony Wayne led American troops from New Bridge on a raid against the blockhouse on July 20, 1780 in the Battle of Bull's Ferry,〔("City and Suburban News" ), ''The New York Times'', June 5, 1880〕 after which it was abandoned and when British troops decamped to the fort at Bergen Neck.〔(1780 ), The Hermitage, accessed May 11, 2011.〕 Like Burdett's Landing to the north, it was a crucial crossing point. Ferry service continued for several decades until steam ferries, notably from Hoboken, replaced the earlier row-and-sail service. Larger terminals to the north at Edgewater and south at West Shore Railroad Terminal at Weeehawken operated until the 1950s. A number of roads ran down the Hudson Palisades to the ferry slip. Bull's Ferry Road was the original name of Park Avenue and Woodcliff Avenues in North Hudson,〔(Bulls Ferry Road ) 〕〔''Twentieth Anniversary 1919 - 1939'' West Hoboken Post No. 14 Union City, New Jersey; The American Legion; Department of New Jersey; Page 31〕 and is still used for a street descending from Boulevard East in North Bergen. Another, simply called Ferry Road, passes under the Galaxy Towers which overlook the neighborhood. The slip itself was close to the part of Edgewater once known as Shadyside.〔(Shadyside and Bulls Ferry Chemical )〕 Previous industrial and maritime uses of the area have since the 1980s given way to residential, institutional, and recreational development, including the Palisades Medical Center and the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway. The district's major thoroughfare is commonly known as River Road, which is served by New Jersey Transit routes 158 and 188 and NY Waterway buses, with connecting service to Weehawken Port Imperial. In April 2011, Guttenberg, and North Bergen agreed to jointly build a park south of Palisades Medical Center, which will include a waterfront promenade. The Hudson River Waterfront Walkway is an esplanade along the water's edge from Bayonne to Fort Lee. ==See also== *Pershing Road (Weehawken) *List of neighborhoods in North Bergen, New Jersey *List of ferries across the Hudson River in New York City *Odonyms in Hudson County, New Jersey 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bulls Ferry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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