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Raritan River

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The Raritan River is a major river of central New Jersey in the United States. [1]

99 relations: Algonquian peoples, Alma mater, American eel, American Revolutionary War, Anatidae, Arthur Kill, Atlantic Ocean, Bluefish, Bound Brook, New Jersey, Branchburg, New Jersey, Bridgewater Township, New Jersey, Callinectes sapidus, Carcinus maenas, Carp, Catfish, Centrarchidae, Chain pickerel, Crayfish, Delaware and Raritan Canal, Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park, Delaware River, Drainage basin, Driscoll Bridge, Drought, East Brunswick, New Jersey, Edison Bridge (New Jersey), Edison, New Jersey, Esox, Estuary, Fiddler crab, Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, Garden State Parkway, Geologist, Green Brook, Green Brook Flood Control Project, Highland Park, New Jersey, Hillsborough Township, New Jersey, Hudson Canyon, Hudson River, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Hurricane Floyd, Hurricane Irene, Ice age, Largemouth bass, Lawrence Brook, List of crossings of the Raritan River, List of rivers of New Jersey, Lower New York Bay, Manville, New Jersey, Middle Brook (Raritan River tributary), ..., Middlesex, New Jersey, Mile Run (New Jersey), Millstone River, Muskellunge, New Brunswick, New Jersey, New Jersey, New Jersey Route 35, New York City, NJ Transit, North Branch Raritan River, North Brunswick, New Jersey, North Jersey Coast Line, On the Banks of the Old Raritan, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Peters Brook (Raritan River tributary), Philadelphia, Piscataway, New Jersey, Pre-Columbian era, Randolph Brook, Raritan Bay, Raritan Bayshore, Raritan people, Raritan River Project, Raritan, New Jersey, Round Valley Reservoir, Rutgers University, Sayreville, New Jersey, Smallmouth bass, Somerville, New Jersey, South Amboy, New Jersey, South Bound Brook, New Jersey, South Branch Raritan River, South River (Raritan River tributary), Spruce Run Recreation Area, Staten Island, Striped bass, Summer flounder, The Narrows, Trout, U.S. Route 9 in New Jersey, United States, United States Geological Survey, Victory Bridge (New Jersey), Watchung Mountains, Weakfish, Winter flounder, Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, Yellow perch, 1776 (musical). Expand index (49 more) »

Algonquian peoples

The Algonquian are one of the most populous and widespread North American native language groups.

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Alma mater

Alma mater (Latin: "nourishing/kind", "mother"; pl.) is an allegorical Latin phrase for a university or college.

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American eel

The American eel (Anguilla rostrata) is a facultative catadromous fish found on the eastern coast of North America.

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American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (17751783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a global war that began as a conflict between Great Britain and its Thirteen Colonies which declared independence as the United States of America. After 1765, growing philosophical and political differences strained the relationship between Great Britain and its colonies. Patriot protests against taxation without representation followed the Stamp Act and escalated into boycotts, which culminated in 1773 with the Sons of Liberty destroying a shipment of tea in Boston Harbor. Britain responded by closing Boston Harbor and passing a series of punitive measures against Massachusetts Bay Colony. Massachusetts colonists responded with the Suffolk Resolves, and they established a shadow government which wrested control of the countryside from the Crown. Twelve colonies formed a Continental Congress to coordinate their resistance, establishing committees and conventions that effectively seized power. British attempts to disarm the Massachusetts militia at Concord, Massachusetts in April 1775 led to open combat. Militia forces then besieged Boston, forcing a British evacuation in March 1776, and Congress appointed George Washington to command the Continental Army. Concurrently, an American attempt to invade Quebec and raise rebellion against the British failed decisively. On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted for independence, issuing its declaration on July 4. Sir William Howe launched a British counter-offensive, capturing New York City and leaving American morale at a low ebb. However, victories at Trenton and Princeton restored American confidence. In 1777, the British launched an invasion from Quebec under John Burgoyne, intending to isolate the New England Colonies. Instead of assisting this effort, Howe took his army on a separate campaign against Philadelphia, and Burgoyne was decisively defeated at Saratoga in October 1777. Burgoyne's defeat had drastic consequences. France formally allied with the Americans and entered the war in 1778, and Spain joined the war the following year as an ally of France but not as an ally of the United States. In 1780, the Kingdom of Mysore attacked the British in India, and tensions between Great Britain and the Netherlands erupted into open war. In North America, the British mounted a "Southern strategy" led by Charles Cornwallis which hinged upon a Loyalist uprising, but too few came forward. Cornwallis suffered reversals at King's Mountain and Cowpens. He retreated to Yorktown, Virginia, intending an evacuation, but a decisive French naval victory deprived him of an escape. A Franco-American army led by the Comte de Rochambeau and Washington then besieged Cornwallis' army and, with no sign of relief, he surrendered in October 1781. Whigs in Britain had long opposed the pro-war Tories in Parliament, and the surrender gave them the upper hand. In early 1782, Parliament voted to end all offensive operations in North America, but the war continued in Europe and India. Britain remained under siege in Gibraltar but scored a major victory over the French navy. On September 3, 1783, the belligerent parties signed the Treaty of Paris in which Great Britain agreed to recognize the sovereignty of the United States and formally end the war. French involvement had proven decisive,Brooks, Richard (editor). Atlas of World Military History. HarperCollins, 2000, p. 101 "Washington's success in keeping the army together deprived the British of victory, but French intervention won the war." but France made few gains and incurred crippling debts. Spain made some minor territorial gains but failed in its primary aim of recovering Gibraltar. The Dutch were defeated on all counts and were compelled to cede territory to Great Britain. In India, the war against Mysore and its allies concluded in 1784 without any territorial changes.

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Anatidae

The Anatidae are the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese, and swans.

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Arthur Kill

Arthur Kill, also known as the Staten Island Sound, is a tidal strait and a kill between Staten Island, a borough of New York City, and Union and Middlesex counties in northern New Jersey.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Bluefish

The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix) is the only extant species of the family Pomatomidae.

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Bound Brook, New Jersey

Bound Brook is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States, located along the Raritan River.

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Branchburg, New Jersey

Branchburg is a township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.

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Bridgewater Township, New Jersey

Bridgewater Township is a township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.

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Callinectes sapidus

Callinectes sapidus (from the Greek calli-.

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Carcinus maenas

Carcinus maenas is a common littoral crab.

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Carp

Carp are various species of oily freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae, a very large group of fish native to Europe and Asia.

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Catfish

Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish.

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Centrarchidae

Centrarchidae (better known as sunfish) are a family of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the order Perciformes.

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Chain pickerel

The Chain Pickerel (Esox niger) is a species of freshwater fish in the pike family (family Esocidae) of order Esociformes.

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Crayfish

Crayfish, also known as crawfish, crawdads, crawldads, freshwater lobsters, mountain lobsters, mudbugs or yabbies, are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters, to which they are related; taxonomically, they are members of the superfamilies Astacoidea and Parastacoidea.

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Delaware and Raritan Canal

The Delaware and Raritan Canal (D&R Canal) is a canal in central New Jersey, United States, built in the 1830s, that served to connect the Delaware River to the Raritan River.

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Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park

Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park is a New Jersey state park along the Delaware and Raritan Canal.

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Delaware River

The Delaware River is a major river on the Atlantic coast of the United States.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.

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Driscoll Bridge

The Driscoll Bridge is a toll bridge (a series of three spans) on the Garden State Parkway in the U.S. state of New Jersey spanning the Raritan River near its mouth in Raritan Bay.

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Drought

A drought is a period of below-average precipitation in a given region, resulting in prolonged shortages in the water supply, whether atmospheric, surface water or ground water.

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East Brunswick, New Jersey

East Brunswick is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Edison Bridge (New Jersey)

The Edison Bridge (officially the Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Bridge) is a bridge on U.S. Route 9 in New Jersey, spanning the Raritan River near its mouth in Raritan Bay.

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Edison, New Jersey

Edison is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, in the New York City metropolitan area.

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Esox

Esox is a genus of freshwater fish, the only living genus in the family Esocidae—the esocids which were endemic to North America and Eurasia during the Paleogene through present.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Fiddler crab

A fiddler crab, sometimes known as a calling crab, may be any of approximately 100 species of semi-terrestrial marine crabs which make up the genus Uca.

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Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey

Franklin Township is a township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.

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Garden State Parkway

The Garden State Parkway (GSP) is a limited-access toll parkway that stretches the length of New Jersey from the New York line at Montvale to Cape May at the state's southernmost tip.

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Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes that shape it.

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Green Brook

Green Brook is a tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey in the United States.

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Green Brook Flood Control Project

The Green Brook Flood Control Project is a flood control project in Somerset County in central New Jersey first proposed in the early 1970s in the wake of two major flooding events: a 1971 flood event and a major 1973 flood which ravaged the Green Brook and Raritan River basins, causing millions in property damage and several deaths in central New Jersey.

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Highland Park, New Jersey

Highland Park is a borough in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Hillsborough Township, New Jersey

Hillsborough Township is a township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.

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Hudson Canyon

The Hudson Canyon is a submarine canyon that begins from the shallow outlet of the estuary at the mouth of the Hudson River.

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Hudson River

The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York in the United States.

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Hunterdon County, New Jersey

Hunterdon County is a county located in the western section of the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Hurricane Floyd

Hurricane Floyd was a very powerful Cape Verde hurricane which struck the east coast of the United States.

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Hurricane Irene

Hurricane Irene was a large and destructive tropical cyclone which affected much of the Caribbean and East Coast of the United States during late August 2011.

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Ice age

An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Largemouth bass

The largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) is a freshwater gamefish in the Centrarchidae (sunfish) family, a species of black bass native to North America.

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Lawrence Brook

Lawrence Brook is a tributary of the Raritan River in Middlesex County, New Jersey in the United States.

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List of crossings of the Raritan River

This is a list of road/highway and rail crossings of the Raritan River from the mouth at Raritan Bay upstream.

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List of rivers of New Jersey

This is a list of streams and rivers in the U.S. state of New Jersey. List of New Jersey rivers includes streams formally designated as rivers.

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Lower New York Bay

Lower New York Bay is a section of New York Bay south of the Narrows, the relatively narrow strait between the shores of Staten Island and Brooklyn.

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Manville, New Jersey

Manville is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.

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Middle Brook (Raritan River tributary)

Middle Brook is a tributary of the Raritan River in Somerset, New Jersey, in the United States.

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Middlesex, New Jersey

Middlesex is a borough in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Mile Run (New Jersey)

Mile Run is a tributary of the Raritan River in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in the United States.

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Millstone River

The Millstone River is a tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey in the United States.

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Muskellunge

The muskellunge (Esox masquinongy), also known as muskelunge, muscallonge, milliganong, or maskinonge (and often abbreviated "muskie" or "musky"), is a species of large, relatively uncommon freshwater fish native to North America.

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New Brunswick, New Jersey

New Brunswick is a city in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, in the New York City metropolitan area.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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New Jersey Route 35

Route 35 is a state highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey, primarily traveling through the easternmost parts of Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean counties.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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NJ Transit

New Jersey Transit Corporation, branded as NJ Transit (NJT; stylized as NJ TRANSIT), is a state-owned public transportation system that serves the US state of New Jersey, along with portions of New York State and Pennsylvania.

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North Branch Raritan River

The North Branch Raritan River is a tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey in the United States.

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North Brunswick, New Jersey

North Brunswick is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

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North Jersey Coast Line

The North Jersey Coast Line is a New Jersey Transit commuter rail service running from New York City or Hoboken to Bay Head, New Jersey.

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On the Banks of the Old Raritan

"On the Banks of the Old Raritan" is a song, or alma mater, associated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (previously Rutgers College and Rutgers University), in the United States.

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Perth Amboy, New Jersey

Perth Amboy is a city in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Peters Brook (Raritan River tributary)

Peters Brook is a tributary of the Raritan River that flows south through Bridgewater Township and Somerville, New Jersey, in the United States.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Piscataway, New Jersey

Piscataway is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Pre-Columbian era

The Pre-Columbian era incorporates all period subdivisions in the history and prehistory of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the American continents, spanning the time of the original settlement in the Upper Paleolithic period to European colonization during the Early Modern period.

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Randolph Brook

Randolph Brook is a tributary of the Millstone River in northern Franklin Park, New Jersey, United States.

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Raritan Bay

Raritan Bay is a bay located at the southern portion of Lower New York Bay between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey and is part of the New York Bight.

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Raritan Bayshore

The Raritan Bayshore region of New Jersey is a subregion of the larger Jersey Shore.

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Raritan people

The Raritan were bands of the Lenape people living around the Raritan River and its bay, in what is now northeastern New Jersey and Staten Island, New York.

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Raritan River Project

The Raritan River Project was founded by the Edison Wetlands Association (EWA) in 1995 to protect human health, quality of life, and the environment against threats, including pollution, overdevelopment, and lack of public access to waterways.

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Raritan, New Jersey

Raritan is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.

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Round Valley Reservoir

The Round Valley Reservoir in Clinton Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States, was formed in 1960 when the New Jersey Water Authority constructed two large dams and flooded a large valley.

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Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is an American public research university and is the largest institution of higher education in New Jersey.

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Sayreville, New Jersey

Sayreville is a borough located on the Raritan River, near Raritan Bay in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Smallmouth bass

The smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family (Centrarchidae) of the order Perciformes.

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Somerville, New Jersey

Somerville is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.

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South Amboy, New Jersey

South Amboy is a suburban city in Middlesex County, New Jersey, on the Raritan Bay.

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South Bound Brook, New Jersey

South Bound Brook is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.

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South Branch Raritan River

The South Branch Raritan River is a tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey in the United States.

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South River (Raritan River tributary)

The South River is a tributary of the Raritan River in central New Jersey in the United States.

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Spruce Run Recreation Area

Spruce Run Recreation Area is a New Jersey state recreation area located in Union Township and Clinton Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States.

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Staten Island

Staten Island is the southernmost and westernmost of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York.

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Striped bass

The striped bass (Morone saxatilis), also called Atlantic striped bass, striper, linesider, rock or rockfish, is an anadromous Perciforme fish of the family Moronidae found primarily along the Atlantic coast of North America.

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Summer flounder

The summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) is a marine flatfish that is found in the Atlantic Ocean off the East coast of the United States and Canada.

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The Narrows

The Narrows is the tidal strait separating the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City.

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Trout

Trout is the common name for a number of species of freshwater fish belonging to the genera Oncorhynchus, Salmo and Salvelinus, all of the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae.

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U.S. Route 9 in New Jersey

U.S. Route 9 (US 9) is a U.S. highway in the northeast United States, running from Laurel, Delaware north to Champlain, New York.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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Victory Bridge (New Jersey)

The Victory Bridge is a highway bridge in the U.S. state of New Jersey that carries Route 35 over the Raritan River, connecting the Middlesex County communities of Perth Amboy on the north and Sayreville to the south.

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Watchung Mountains

The Watchung Mountains (once called the Blue Hills) are a group of three long low ridges of volcanic origin, between high, lying parallel to each other in northern New Jersey in the United States.

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Weakfish

The weakfish, Cynoscion regalis, is a marine fish of the drum family Sciaenidae.

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Winter flounder

The winter flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus, (also known as black back) is a right-eyed ("dextral") flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae.

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Woodbridge Township, New Jersey

Woodbridge Township is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Yellow perch

The yellow perch (Perca flavescens), commonly referred to as perch, is a freshwater perciform fish native to much of North America.

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1776 (musical)

1776 is a musical with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and a book by Peter Stone.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raritan_River

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