Items

• Memoir of Living at Hauxhurst in the 1870s

  A memoir written in 1945 by a granddaughter of Denning Duer, Eleanor Duer Larocque, of her years spent in Weehawken in the 1870s and 1880s. Grandfather Duer was the owner of Hauxhurst mansion which was built by his father-in-law James Gore King for his daughter, Caroline King and Denning Duer. Denning's son, James Gore King Duer, and Elizabeth Wilson Meads Duer moved their family from Staten Island to Weehawken in 1874 and lived there for 10 years until they relocated to Manhattan. This manuscript was given to Helene Hasbrouck Anderson (nee Eagan), who lived at 38 King Avenue and met the author in Bernardsville in 1950.
• Recollections of The Shades of Old Weehawken

  Mark Wright's notes from his 1966 conversations with residents of The Shades contain lots of information about people, places and events in old Weehawken.
• The Erie Railroad's Waterfront Operations - Weehawken

  A railfan's recollections of the Weehawken railyards in the 1950s.
• The Frigid Trap - by Harold McGowan

  This book, by a very nattily dressed Mr. McGowan, includes his recollections of childhood in Weehawken. Published by Metaprobe Institute Inc. of Central Islip, NY, in 1983, this novel "is based on an actual journey made in 1921 by horse and wagon from Union City, New Jersey, through Weehawken, by ferry across the Hudson River, through New York City to Brooklyn." Harold McGowan was born on June 23, 1909 in Weehawken, New Jersey, the son of Sylvester and Grace (Kalbfleish) McGowan.