First River
First River | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
State | New Jersey |
Counties | Essex |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Essex County, New Jersey, United States |
Mouth | Passaic River |
• location | Newark, Essex, New Jersey, United States |
The First River, in the state of New Jersey in the United States, is a subterranean river and the first main tributary of the Passaic River encountered while travelling upstream from its mouth at Newark Bay.
Beginning at the confluence of Mill Brook and Branch Brook[1] (near the present Skating Center in Branch Brook Park), the First River flowed parallel to Seventh Avenue and Clay Street, discharging into the Passaic River in the vicinity of the Clay Street bridge.
The First River was also known as Mill Brook, having supported several mills, including grist mills for the earliest settlers of Newark in the 17th century.
From 1863 to 1890 the brook was culvertised and now flows underground through two culverts, each six feet nine inches (206 cm) high by nine feet three inches (282 cm) wide until discharging into the Passaic.[2] The brook once flowed through, and now flows under, what is now Branch Brook Park in the city of Newark.[3]
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39°35′52″N 74°38′30″W / 39.597905°N 74.641703°W / 39.597905; -74.641703
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- Black Brook
- Canoe Brook
- Cory's Brook
- Dead River
- Diamond Brook
- First River
- Foulerton's Brook
- Great Brook
- Goffle Brook
- Little Diamond Brook
- Loantaka Brook
- McDonalds Brook
- Molly Ann Brook
- Peckman River
- Pompton River
- Primrose Brook
- Rockaway River
- Saddle River
- Salt Brook
- Second River
- Slippery Rock Brook
- Slough Brook
- Spring Garden Brook
- Stevenson Brook
- Third River
- Weasel Brook
- Boonton Reservoir
- Butler Reservoir
- Canoe Brook Reservoir
- Cedar Lake
- DeForest Lake
- Estling Lake
- Franklin Lake
- Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
- Greenwood Lake
- Indian Lake
- Lake Kinnelon
- Lake Tappan
- Monksville Reservoir
- Mountain Lake
- Oradell Reservoir
- Point View Reservoir
- Pompton Lake
- Ramapo Lake
- Rainbow Lake
- Splitrock Reservoir
- Sterling Lake
- Verona Lake
- Wanaque Reservoir
- White Meadow Lake
- Woodcliff Lake Reservoir
- Lower Passaic River
- Avondale Bridge
- Belleville Turnpike Bridge
- Bridge Street Bridge
- Clay Street Bridge
- Dock Bridge
- Eighth Street Bridge
- Gregory Avenue Bridge
- Harry Laderman Bridge
- Jackson Street Bridge
- Lincoln Highway Passaic River Bridge
- Lyndhurst Draw
- Market Street Bridge
- Monroe Street Bridge
- Newark Drawbridge
- Passaic Street Bridge
- Pulaski Skyway
- PD Draw
- Union Avenue Bridge
- William A. Stickel Memorial Bridge
- Upper Passaic River
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