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Secaucus ( 〔Wright, E. Assata. ("Secaucus: How do you pronounce it? Development put town on map but newcomers don’t know where they are" ), ''Hudson Reporter'', February 22, 2009. Accessed December 1, 2011. "Therefore, the new neighbors may proudly totter about telling folks they live in Sih-KAW-cus or See-KAW-cus. However, natives prefer that the accent be on the first syllable, as in: SEE-kaw-cus."〕〔Page, Jeffrey. ("Our towns challenge our tongues" ), ''The Record (Bergen County)'', June 17, 2005. Accessed September 1, 2014. "You can always tell newcomers to Secaucus. Because most words are pronounced with emphasis on the next-to-last syllable, they say they live in see-KAW-cus - although the ones who fear their friends might recall that Secaucus used to be pig-farming country might say they live in South Carlstadt, which doesn't exist. ''If I said 'see-KAW-cus' to someone local, they'd think I didn't know what I was talking about,'' said Dan McDonough, the municipal historian. ''Of course it's SEE-kaw-cus. Everybody knows that.''"〕) is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town's population was 16,264,〔〔〔 reflecting an increase of 333 (+2.1%) from the 15,931 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 1,870 (+13.3%) from the 14,061 counted in the 1990 Census.〔(Table 7. Population for the Counties and Municipalities in New Jersey: 1990, 2000 and 2010 ), New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, February 2011. Accessed November 12, 2012.〕 Located within the New Jersey Meadowlands, it is the most suburban of the county's municipalities, though large parts of the town are dedicated to light manufacturing, retail, and transportation uses, as well as protected areas.〔Archilla, Dylan M. ("Taking a dip Hudson County towns offer swim fun" ), ''Hudson Reporter'', July 3, 2003. Accessed July 20, 2011. "Secaucus, being the most 'suburban' of Hudson's County's towns (and being closest to Bergen County), not surprisingly boasts the most spacious facility. Sporting four distinct pools (an Olympic-sized pool, a diving tank, a lap pool, and a wading pool for the kiddies the Secaucus Swim Center is open to non-residents)."〕 Secaucus is a derivation of the Algonquian words for "black" (''seke'' or ''sukit'') and "snake" (''achgook''), or "place of snakes.〔Van Winkle, Daniel. (''History of Hudson County and of the Old Village of Bergen: Being a Brief Account of the Foundation and Growth of what is Now Jersey City and of the Many Advantages Now Offered the Inhabitants Thereof in the Newly Constructed Building of the Trust Company of New Jersey'' ), p. 20. Bartlett Orr Press, 1921. Accessed October 2, 2015. "Secaucus was scarcely an island It was a strip of firm land surrounded by tidal marsh For some reason it was highly prized by planters. Its name was Indian for 'place of snakes' and it and Snake Hill or Rattlesnake Hill appear frequently in subsequent land transfers."〕〔Hutchinson, Viola L. (''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names'' ), New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed October 2, 2015.〕 or ''sekakes'', referring to snakes.〔Gannett, Henry. (''The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States'' ), p. 279. United States Government Printing Office, 1905. Accessed October 2, 2015.〕 ==History== ''Sikakes'', once an island, was part of the territory purchased by Director-General of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant in 1658.〔 The territory was part of what is considered to the oldest municipality in the state of New Jersey which was first chartered in 1660 as Bergen〔("NJCU: Jersey City A to Z: Bergen with map" ). New Jersey City University. Accessed February 19, 2014.〕 in the province of New Netherland and, in 1683, became Bergen Township. Settlement had begun by at least 1733 by the Smith family, whose namesake Abel I. Smith Burial Ground is part of the lore of Secaucus. Secaucus was originally formed as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 12, 1900, from portions of North Bergen.〔〔Honeyman, Abraham Van Doren. (''Index-analysis of the Statutes of New Jersey, 1896-1909: Together with References to All Acts, and Parts of Acts, in the 'General Statutes' and Pamphlet Laws Expressly Repealed: and the Statutory Crimes of New Jersey During the Same Period'' ), p. 255. New Jersey Law Journal Publishing Company, 1910. Accessed October 2, 2015.〕 On June 7, 1917, Secaucus was incorporated as a town, replacing Secaucus borough, based on the results of a referendum held on June 5, 1917.〔Snyder, John P (1969). (''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968'' ). Bureau of Geology and Topography. Trenton, New Jersey. p. 147. Accessed February 19, 2014.〕 Secaucus was originally an agricultural community specializing in flowers. It later became known for its pig farms in the first half of the 20th century. In the early 1900s the town was home to approximately 55 pig farms, which housed nearly 250,000 pigs, which outnumbered humans 16 to 1. These farms served the meat demands of Newark and New York, and made the farmers wealthy. Many of them were local politicians, most notably pork peddler Henry B. Krajewski, who ran for New Jersey senator, three times for governor and twice for U.S. President.〔Schwartz, Art. ("Local mayor to magazine: Pig joke not amusingAsks students to respond to New Yorker piece" ), ''Hudson Reporter'', February 16, 2014. Accessed September 1, 2014.〕〔Mullins, Michael D. ("'Redevelopment' was the word in '07 Major projects, renovations continue despite national real estate downturn" ), ''Hudson Reporter'', January 8, 2008. Accessed September 1, 2014. "Once home to pig farms, this town on the Hackensack River now has its own major train station (Secaucus Transfer Station) and several massive developments under way."〕 The town's pig farms, rendering plants, and junk yards gave the town a reputation for being one of the most odorous in the New York metropolitan area.〔〔Staff. ("NEW JERSEY: Moonbeam McSwine's Fate ), ''Time (magazine)'', August 11, 1952. Accessed September 1, 2014.〕 In the 1950s the pig farms began to dwindle, partially due to construction on the New Jersey Turnpike, which would carry tourists that it was realized, would not appreciate the odor.〔 In 1963, debris from the demolition of Pennsylvania Station was dumped in the Secaucus Meadowlands. In later decades Secaucus became more of a commuter town. In a non-binding referendum in 1969, 90% of voters in Secaucus chose to leave Hudson County and join Bergen County, as that county was more similar in character and had lower taxes.〔Bonamo, Mark J. ("The lost cause Secaucus residents remember attempt to secede from Hudson County" ), ''Hudson Reporter'', August 1, 2006. Accessed December 25, 2011. "Encouraged by this success, Amico began to look across the Hackensack River. 'The makeup of Secaucus is very much unlike most of Hudson County,' he said. 'It's much more like Bergen County. We did some analysis about what taxes were like in other counties, and Bergen County had the lowest. Bergen County would have accepted us back in 1969.... We had a non-binding resolution that approved secession by 90 percent.'"〕 Today it is the still the most suburban town in Hudson County.〔 ''New Jersey Monthly'' magazine ranked Secaucus as its 182nd best place to live in its 2010 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey, after ranking the borough 11th in its 2008 rankings.〔("Top Towns 2010" ), ''New Jersey Monthly'', February 11, 2010. 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