November in Hoboken History
November 3, 1823. Colonel John Stevens incorporated the Hoboken Steamboat Ferry Company with two ferries, the Hoboken and the Pioneer.
November 13, 1919. The Lake Daroga docked at the Army's port of embarkation piers in Hoboken. The freighter brought home the first US war dead, 114 bodies.
November 17, 1874. Subway tunneling began on the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad lines.
November 17, 1951. The last edition of the 59-year-old Jersey Observer was published.
November 22, 1967. Ferry service ended when the Elmira left Hoboken at 5:30 PM and docked at Barclay Street in Manhattan. It marked the end of 192 years of service. New York Waterway resumed Ferry service in the 1980s.
November 25, 1783. British troops relinquished control of the Hoboken Ferry.
November 27, 1966. Last run of the famed Phoebe Snow which was the Erie-Lackawanna's Hoboken to Chicago train.
November 28, 1778. Colonel Christian Eleazor sent an American force of 36 men to the Weehawken and Hoboken ferries with orders to intercept and disrupt the traffic of supplies to New York.