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Harsimus (also known as Harsimus Cove) is a neighborhood within Downtown Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. The neighborhood stretches from the Harsimus Stem Embankment (the Sixth Street Embankment) on the north to Christopher Columbus Drive on the south between Coles Street and Grove Street〔http://www.harsimuscove.org/History2.html〕 or more broadly, to Marin Boulevard. It borders the neighborhoods of Hamilton Park to the north, Van Vorst Park to the south, the Village to the west, and the Powerhouse Arts District to the east. Newark Avenue has traditionally been its ''main street''.〔(JC Shopping Districts )〕 The name is from the Lenape, used by the Hackensack Indians who inhabited the region and could be translated as ''Crow’s Marsh''.〔(Lenape talking dictionary )〕 From many years, the neighborhood was part of the “Horseshoe”, a political delineation created by its position between the converging rail lines and political gerrymandering.〔http://www.jclandmarks.org/nomination-embankment.shtml〕 ==Early settlement== Harsimus is a derivative of a Lenape phrase, possibly meaning ''Crow's Marsh''. Spellings include: ''Aharsimus'',〔http://www.cityofjerseycity.org/oldberg/chapter7.shtml〕 ''Ahasimus'',〔http://www.hiddenhistory.com/PAGE3/swsts/nujers-1.HTM#Delaware〕〔http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/delaware/delawarevillages.htm〕 ''Hasymes'',〔http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/Dutch-Colonies/2002-03/1015788155〕 ''Haassemus, Hahassemes, Hasimus, Horseemes'', ''Hasseme'',〔http://www.nj.gov/state/darm/links/pdf/pasevensettledtowns.pdf〕 ''Horsimus'' 〔http://files.usgwarchives.org/nj/bergen/land/deed-s.txt〕 In current Lenape, ''ahas'' means "crow".〔http://www.talk-lenape.org/spelling.php〕 In 1629, the Dutchman Michael Reyniersz Pauw obtained a patent for all the land in what would become Hudson County, naming it Pavonia. Unable to fulfill a patroon charter provision that he set up a plantation with fifty permanent settlers, the Dutch West India Company sold a part to his superintendent, who had built a homestead in 1634 and was the first of many Van Vorsts to play important roles in the development of the city. A family homestead built in 1647 was demolished in 1967.〔(Van Vorst House )〕 Conflict with Native Americans compromised the settlement 1643, which continued to grow after the 1645 treaty ending Kieft's War. Again in 1655, the area was attacked in a conflict called the Peach Tree War. In 1660, it came under the jurisdiction of Bergen, New Netherland the main village of which was located at Bergen Square.〔 *(Harsimus Cove history )〕 Once the area was ceded to the British after the surrender of Fort Amsterdam, New York claimed ownership to the high waterline along the west bank of the Hudson River and that any pier built there was under its jurisdiction, thus stifling development which would compete with the burgeoning New York City. Paulus Hook was the first to urbanize, and The City of Jersey was incorporated in various forms in 1820, 1829, and again in 1838.〔"The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968", John P. Snyder, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 146–147.〕 John Coles, a merchant from New York, was among the first to expand into Harsimus.〔 *(Hamilton Park History )〕 The Supreme Court settled the matter of jurisdiction in the 1830s, creating a border mid-river. Harsimus grew with shipping along shoreline and residences farther inland.〔(Harsimus Cove history )〕 The short-lived Van Vorst Township later merged with its neighbor. Much of the housing stock from the maritime era is still intact. Many of the streets in the gridiron laid at the time have been renamed over the years. Moving away from the river they were originally called Hudson, River, Kelso, and Barnum. Provost and others to the west have stayed the same.〔Hopkins, G.M. ''Combined Atlas of the State of New Jersey and the County of Hudson'', 1873〕 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「Harsimus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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