A few years ago, an auction house in Boston, Massachusetts, sold a two-page letter written from Newark that was dated March 1834. The letter included a hand-drawn map of the downtown area. It is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Sept. 8, 1942, a B-25 bomber crashed into Jane Weston's Newark home at 154 Hudson Ave., killing the four men on board and Jane.

Newark's first Italian war bride, Nicoletta Fortuniti, found love with Herbert Klein during World War II, despite being ...

On early plat maps, when William Schenck laid out the town of Newark in 1801, there is no recorded site that he set aside for a cemetery. Since the community was just beginning, perhaps he didn’t ...