The Insane Engineering That Built New Jersey

New Jersey once built a canal that dragged coal barges straight up the side of a mountain. We built the first highway in America that trucks still aren't allowed on, and the first car tunnel under a river, which killed two chief engineers before a single car drove through it. None of it has a plaque. That's the deal here, we solve the problem nobody else can solve, then put up a chain-link fence and move on while somebody in another state takes the photo. This one covers Alexander Hamilton's industrial city at the Great Falls in Paterson, the Morris Canal and the inclined planes that hauled boats over the highlands in Warren and Sussex counties, the Roebling wire works in Trenton, the first tunnel under the Hudson and the twenty men who died in it, the abandoned Lackawanna Cut-Off and the Paulinskill Viaduct rotting in the woods, Hangar No. 1 at Lakehurst and the airship they had to shorten to fit inside it, the Holland Tunnel, the five-year run when the Ben Franklin, George Washington, and Bayonne bridges each took a world record, the Pulaski Skyway and the men who died fighting over who got to build it, and the New Jersey Turnpike that went up in 25 months. Drop the one you drive over every day and never once thought about. Tag the out-of-state friend who still thinks we're just a highway with an attitude problem, and share it with whoever needs the reminder. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574322277387 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nj.uncovered/?hl=en Email List: https://nj-uncovered.beehiiv.com/