Hudson County Park System

[4] Additionally, the county owns acreage in preservation areas in the New Jersey Meadowlands[5] The City Beautiful movement at the turn of the twentieth century was conceived to revitalize industrialized urban communities and to provide them with public space for recreational activities.

It was constructed from 1892 to 1897, under Chief Engineer Edlow W. Harrison, in some places incorporating existing roads and became the county's principal north-south corridor.

Lowrie succeeded Langton as Landscape Architect for the Hudson County Park Commission, a position he held for thirty years.

[11] Its name refers to its location and to honor of James J. Braddock, World Heavy Weight Boxing Champion from 1935 to 1937 and inducted in hall of fame in 2001.

[19] It is 2.6 acres[3][20] Originally designed by Charles N. Lowrie, who was landscape architect for the Hudson County Parks Department.

There is also a memorial dedicated to John A. Sacci, a beloved high school history teacher, who was tragically shot on February 12, 1998.

Comprising 97.5 acres,[3] it was originally designed by Charles N. Lowrie, landscape architect for the Hudson County Parks Department.

Visible from the eastern spur of the New Jersey Turnpike, the rock rises 150 feet (46 m) from the surrounding Meadowlands.

Mercer Park (40°41′21″N 74°05′44″W / 40.689028°N 74.095556°W / 40.689028; -74.095556) was created from the remnants of Curries Woods at the border of Greenville, Jersey City and Bayonne north of the National Docks Secondary rail line.

[30] The park lost much of its land to the city's largest housing authority project in 1959, except a small tract in Bayonne[31] of 6.4 acres.

Into the 1900s the land was owned by the Stuckleys, a wealthy New York family who operated it as carnival or campground and held fairs, circuses, and Wild West shows.