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Bayonne (City in Hudson co N J on New)

a city in Hudson co., N. J., on New York harbor, the Kill von Kull, and Newark Bay, and the Central of New Jersey and the Lehigh Valley railroads; 7 miles S. W. of New York City. The city is also on the Hudson and the Morris canal.

It contains a number of former villages; and is principally engaged in coal shipping and petroleum refining, the works for the latter being connected by pipe lines with New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and other cities.

Other noteworthy industries are manufactures of chemicals, ammonia and the colors. The residential part of the city is very attractive, containing fine homes of New York business men, and having trolley connection with Jersey City, Newark, and the Oranges. Pop. (1910) 55,545 ; (1920) 76,754.